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Update #1: Are you having issues with Amazon Payments?

Posted on May 29, 2010

Some non-Americans occasionally have problems with the Amazon payment system when it refuses to let them change their country when giving their address. The Kickstarter discussion thread on this issue is here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/community/general-forum/threads/65

JungleDisk have instructions for how to work around the problem, which basically involves making a new Amazon account with the same email address as your old one:

https://www.jungledisk.com/secure/signup/mturk.aspx

And Maker Beam has this advice:

http://makerbeam.com/kickstartFAQ.html

I'm not in the US and I'm trying to pledge to a project. It says I can't! What's wrong?
Most people will have no problem with this; Amazon will let anyone with a credit card pledge to a project.

One bug seems to arise for people who live outside the US and have a Mechanical Turk account. For whatever reason, Amazon demands a US address and zip code. Giving them a fake one works fine and is harmless; project creators never see this address and collect information from backers after the pledge period ends.

The city and zip code have to match. I've always used Beverly Hills, 90210, personally (that's in California; this question is aimed at those outside the US after all).

If this doesn't work, contact Amazon; you should be able to pledge and they should be able to help you.

If none of that works, please let me know and I'll do what I can to help.

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