Amazon launches international shopping from United States

It seems like most of these features already existed since I've bought off of Amazon.com for years and they would show the shipping and import duty at checkout, and the UK version of the site will even convert the payment to yen, but now I guess you don't have to search each individual item to see if they will ship overseas.

I've noticed that Amazon Japan has had an international shopping area for years as well, the selection is more limited but it does allow people to buy Japanese products easily.

and the UK version of the site will even convert the payment to yen, never use Amazons currency converter as their rates suck! best to purchase in US$ and have your credit card company convert it at their rate into yen which is almost always better.

So does that mean Amazon will ban the use of "Ships only within the U.S." ?

The POTUS will be pleased and will upgrade Besos to the ' I like him' status :)

I hope that one day, they also ship programming globally from the source country, rather than waiting for it to be locally censored, translated, approved by unions, etc. Were that to happen, then online media piracy would head into the history books and (with wishful thinking in mind) costs for all would hopefully reduce...

Buying the the US on ebay sucks cos of the mad expensive shipping rates will be interesting to see if this is the same.