Dear Amazon.com

[den]

"Will there ever be an Amazon.com.au in Australia? There are a lot of products I want that will not ship outside the USA. I have the same problem buying from amazon.co.uk"

Thanks for writing to us at Amazon.com.

Please accept my sincere apologies for any inconvenience you may have experienced and I do understand your concern. We're always glad to learn of new opportunities to grow our business internationally. As you may know, we now have websites throughout the world. You can see a full list at: http://www.amazon.com/international At this time, however, we have not determined a marketing direction in "Australia".

I wonder if they thought I made up the country's name. And their list of international sites doesn't help; I already knew that and it doesn't answer my question at all.

Comments

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

Try Biblio.com (http://www.biblio.com) for books you're having trouble getting ahold of. International site, though the majority of the dealers are in the US. They have a special program set up for US dealers to bundle Australian order to trim the shipping cost down to something reasonable.

And here's an output of the Australian book dealers on Biblio (http://www.biblio.com/bookseller_search.php?country=7). A lot them are extreme specialists and don't have a physical store, so you may not have seen them before.

Not going to be much help if you wanted Amazon's other offerings. To deal with those, you might want to try Etsy Shop local (http://www.etsy.com/shop_local.php) which will show you local artisan's. You can input country, town, province, and it'll show you the 100 most recently updated store. (so you know they're still live). Good for all kinds of handmade stuff. No good for an ipod, but you can get a custom case for it.

Can't help you with straight up patented consumer goods and electronics if that's what you were looking for.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's the electronics and goods that are the problem, Books, CDs and DVDs are obtainable.