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Can I buy a Kindle in Korea?

 
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swinewho



Joined: 17 Aug 2009

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:04 pm    Post subject: Can I buy a Kindle in Korea? Reply with quote

Any ideas - I know Amazon UK will not ship one to Korea - they will generally only ship books Sad
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derbot



Joined: 04 May 2010

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I ordered mine from the states. No problems.
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jrock



Joined: 16 Jun 2010

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I ordered one a few weeks ago and it arrived in 3 days.
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NYC_Gal 2.0



Joined: 10 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I ordered mine from the US last weekend and got it yesterday.
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ajuma



Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_search/search_total.asp?selecturl=total&SearchClassFormWord=goodsSearch&keyword=kindle
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RyanInKorea



Joined: 17 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am surprised people are saying they got theirs so quickly. My colleague bought one and he had trouble with customs. It took a couple extra days, over a week for sure. Anyway, he bought it on Amazon. Price went down recently too.
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zappadelta



Joined: 31 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RyanInKorea wrote:
I am surprised people are saying they got theirs so quickly. My colleague bought one and he had trouble with customs. It took a couple extra days, over a week for sure. Anyway, he bought it on Amazon. Price went down recently too.


Maybe he got the 3G model, which is $189. This would be over the $150 limit that customs looks for. The other model, without 3G, is $139.
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NYC_Gal 2.0



Joined: 10 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got the 3g model and a fancy case. I had a customs deposit that was charged at my purchase time that was around 40k. I still got it within 5 days.
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swinewho



Joined: 17 Aug 2009

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the replies!
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zappadelta



Joined: 31 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote:
I got the 3g model and a fancy case. I had a customs deposit that was charged at my purchase time that was around 40k. I still got it within 5 days.



Yes, but you bought it from here right? (gmarket or something) I am talking about buying it directly from amazon
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NYC_Gal 2.0



Joined: 10 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

zappadelta wrote:
NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote:
I got the 3g model and a fancy case. I had a customs deposit that was charged at my purchase time that was around 40k. I still got it within 5 days.



Yes, but you bought it from here right? (gmarket or something) I am talking about buying it directly from amazon


I bought it off of the US Amazon site.
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nok



Joined: 04 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Strange.... I just tried to order one with a Seoul address and got denied. "cannot be shipped to the selected address."
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Burndog



Joined: 17 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got my mine directly from Amazon's U.S website. It was delivered to my school within a few days...and I got a fancy case...and had to pay customs...but that only held it up for a few hours. It was incredibly fast...ordered on Thursday, and at my school on Saturday.

Oh...and it's the best thing I've ever spent money on...including women and booze.
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Vox_Populi



Joined: 04 May 2009
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just FYI, I bought an iPad (last year when they were first released in the States) off of ebay and had it shipped to me here in Seoul. IPad has a free kindle app that you can download and then enjoy all the books you like. You can also download the iBooks app and a Nook app so it has a lot of possibilities.
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