Does anyone here know

[james_davis_nicoll]

If Amazon UK ships to Canada?

Comments

[jjhunter]

...it certainly ships to the US!

*knows from personal experience*

[cleverthylacine]

My experience is that unless it is illegal for them to do so due to licencing issues (in which case you use a forwarding service *g* -- for Japan, tenso.com), any Amazon outlet will ship any product anywhere; however, Amazon Marketplace sellers will usually not.

[deor.livejournal.com]

They ship to the U.S.; why wouldn't they ship to Canada?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I didn't know they shipped to the US.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

They do indeed, I've ordered from them many time, and will be doing so again soon for a copy of The Fractal Prince.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

How are the shipping costs and the times?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Shipping costs are about twice US Amazon, and times are between one and two weeks.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

When I ordered Blue Remembered Earth, the total cost including shipping was only about two bucks more than if I'd bought it on Amazon.com and it took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic (which still put it three months ahead of the American publication).

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Would it have been more cost effective to get the British edition from a Canadian source?

The problem with the book I am looking for is it is British, cannot survive translation into American [1] and is not imported into Canada for some reason.

1: It's a cook book. Apparently the standard for conversions from weight-based recipes as used in the UK to volume-based as used in the US is of the "nobody really cooks; they're buying the name on the spine, not the recipes themselves" level.

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

They do, mostly, but you'll often find exceptions with sellers selling through the Marketplace section. In one case, I wanted the item so much, I e-mailed the seller and asked if he'd be willing to ship to the USA, and he made an exception; I was surprised.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

You could just go ahead and order it. If they don't ship to the frozen North, they'd just cancel the order at the putting-your-address-in stage.

[zedmeister.livejournal.com]

They do, although I have mostly switched to ordering UK books from the Book Depository, which offers free worldwide shipping.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Amazon owns Book Depository.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the prices are comparable and the shipping is free

[zedmeister.livejournal.com]

Really? Did they own them from the start or did they gobble them up at some point?

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

They gobbled them up about a year ago.

[msagara.livejournal.com]

They definitely ship to Canada, as I’ve ordered from them before. Shipping was not expensive at that time, but it’s been a few years.

[bwross.livejournal.com]

I've ordered DVDs from Amazon UK without problem in the past (I don't have a problem with playing region 2 PAL, which was the bigger problem than if they would ship to Canada).

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

Yes, they'll ship to Canada. And they'll ship a book from the UK to Canada when you order it from the US, too. :-) They're all about the bottom line...

Does anyone here know

[m-m-y.livejournal.com]

Just received here (in Canada) a book I ordered from Amazon UK @2 weeks ago. The shipping costs are quite reasonable and the speed varies from 1 to 2 weeks.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I'm in the US and order from Amazon UK with no trouble.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Just to note, though, many sellers on Amazon UK do not offer international shipping, so if you're looking for something that is only available from private sellers you may have a little trouble.

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

It may depend on what you're ordering. I tried to order a particular lotion for my mother (Nivea brand, but a variation not sold in the US) and the site wouldn't let me complete the order. That may be a US thing, though.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

It's possible it depends on the item. It does, when shipping to Ireland.

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

In general, all the regional amazons (amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.co.jp, amazon.cn, etc.) will ship anywhere. Specific types of products may be restricted when the manufacturers insist (e.g. you can't order video games from amazon.uk for shipment outside the UK), but physical books should generally be unrestricted.

Ebooks are another matter entirely, of course, and generally have to be ordered from your local flavor of amazon.

[kowh.livejournal.com]

As a supplement to the above, the official source is: Delivery Restrictions.