So Amazon found out I'm not from the US

I doubt they really care about that, as long as they get their money.

Well, I had similar problem a year ago or so but not a single fuck was given about where my credit card was issued, Amazon's support was as cool as always for me. Maybe recent change of policy, maybe I was lucky or you just had a bad luck. Anyway, interesting cause and I'm looking forward to know more about other stories like this.

I always kept my Amazon keys in another text file just to feel safer ;).

Source and proof about being removed from Steam, I call BS on that one.

Amazon has the best customer service ever. Even though you blatantly disregarded their rules ( not blaming you for that, though. :p ) they still made an exception and helped you. That's why I make almost all of my big purchases at Amazon.

I think they should allow any country to purchase on AMAZON...

atleast all products that are digitally acquired.

I think from this situation, you get to know Amazon by ur mistake. Amazon didn't found out by themselves

I'm not from the US either but I shall buy Dark Souls with extreme prejudice when it is available. Come at me Amazon, I dare you.

They locked my account even thou I bought items only using Amazon gift cards. They said it's an issue with my credit card...which they should not even be using in the first place cos I was using gift credit. I of course did not get my credit refunded (nor the items for that matter) and said good bye to the remaining credit left ($10 or so) in my account.

Furthermore, it's an account which I had been using for more than a year, included all my kindle and app purchases. So I say Amazon is bullcrap. And their support is like a brick wall.

Really? I have contacted the support about 5 times with stuff like refunds and they didn't tell me anything .
I also was once asked while I was asking for a refund for my living country and I said Israel and he did nothing he just gave me that refund (2 weeks ago).

get a friend in the us to buy you the games and pay him with your credit card.

why Amazon don't care other people who aren't from America !!

Heh. I'm from Germany and using a credit card from the UK. Bought the wrong version of a game also, contacted support, and they just refunded me the 4.99$ and deleted the keys from my amazon account so that I could buy the Steam version instead.

Were you using borderlinx address?

And that's why I asked Amazon to close my account. I received the message that I can't buy games from there because I'm not an U.S. resident, after entering all my credit card information before paying for the Steam redeemable Bioshock bundle keys. Lying about the address/country is worse, so to avoid any more problems, I closed it.

Of course they sent an e-mail "Are you sure, if you close your account you won't be able to..." followed with a long list of useless features and stuff, but that place is a mess, without proper information and warnings, so I'm really happy that I did that (:P)

Are you telling me that everyone (from Europe) here buys cheaper games from amazon's American site? How does this work? Please someone explain this to me!! Can I actually, for example, buy a Steam key from amazon for $9.99 (€7.73) instead of buying directly from steam for €24.99 ($32.29)??

HOW DOES THIS WORK??? WHAT MUST I DO?? Teach me your ways, please!! :o

Use VPN maybe?

As far as i know Amazon doesn't even have the means to remove games from somebody's steam library.

Well this is why i didnt contact them when i fucked up and bought STALKER Call of Pripyat and after that i found it's some kind of non STEAM code/download that needs the first or second game to be installed... i raged a bit, but oh well it was only 2$ and i didnt want them to find out that i'm from Europe. The sad thing for me is that i couldnt even play the game without buying the first one for 14$ (Clear Sky wasnt listed at all at that time).

Haha, this happening to me is my nightmare. People from Europe, especially those in poorer countries, are getting fucked in the ass, so faking US address to get stuff that is available in US and for US prices is a fucking godsend.

what I read from their answer, is that they don't really care that you buy games from outside US, they just don't want that to become official and don't want to handle the extra support requests (as they are probably sized to support the US market, they don't have the extra manpower they need to support the whole world).

so it's more like "hey, we can't make it official that we gladly accept purchases from outside US, so buy and be quiet"

I got discovered and I can't even login anymore... unless I prove I live in the HQ of some company :P

why not buy it here?

They haven't caught me yet!

I'm using a valid USA address, but a Canadian credit card. I'm surprised the CC company hasn't complained about multiple purchases with an invalid billing address yet.

People don't seem to understand that the reason for their not officially supporting worldwide purchases is because then they'd be subject to regulations and restrictions of various countries. It's not that they're a big bad store that hates non-Americans and wants to delete everyone's accounts. As long as you purchase digital goods (particularly 3rd party key copies to steam/origin/etc.) then you can get what you want and keep them out of trouble, because you signed up using fraudulent information knowing why they cannot officially service you legally as it is now. That's all there is to it.

Shit happens.