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Lina Theist
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2013-12-19 14:25:57 UTC
I have a, uh, friend who lives in Europe, but might have made a slight mistake when creating his amazon.com account and entered an American address.

Now, he asked me what would happen if he bought game time on amazon for U.S. currency and linked his amazon account to his european Eve account. He also wonders how to claim plex bought from amazon, do you get a code or are they redeemable on your Eve account?

On my friends behalf I thank you in advance for any and all replies. Merry Christmas
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#2 - 2013-12-19 14:31:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Ramona McCandless
Lina Theist wrote:
I have a, uh, friend who lives in Europe, but might have made a slight mistake when creating his amazon.com account and entered an American address.

Now, he asked me what would happen if he bought game time on amazon for U.S. currency and linked his amazon account to his european Eve account. He also wonders how to claim plex bought from amazon, do you get a code or are they redeemable on your Eve account?

On my friends behalf I thank you in advance for any and all replies. Merry Christmas


Afaik EvE accounts are not regionalised, i.e. theres no such thing as a "european EvE account"

She may/may not get screwed in the exchange rate, though

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Lina Theist
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2013-12-19 14:35:02 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Lina Theist wrote:
I have a, uh, friend who lives in Europe, but might have made a slight mistake when creating his amazon.com account and entered an American address.

Now, he asked me what would happen if he bought game time on amazon for U.S. currency and linked his amazon account to his european Eve account. He also wonders how to claim plex bought from amazon, do you get a code or are they redeemable on your Eve account?

On my friends behalf I thank you in advance for any and all replies. Merry Christmas


Afaik EvE accounts are not regionalised, i.e. theres no such thing as a "european EvE account"

She may/may not get screwed in the exchange rate, though


Well my friend usually pays his subscription in euros, while amazon would be in dollars. So the exchange rate would be in his favor.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#4 - 2013-12-19 15:03:18 UTC
Lina Theist wrote:


Well my friend usually pays his subscription in euros, while amazon would be in dollars. So the exchange rate would be in his favor.


Ill admit I have utterly no idea which Godless heathen money is worth more or less than the other ;)

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Lina Theist
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2013-12-19 15:19:36 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Lina Theist wrote:


Well my friend usually pays his subscription in euros, while amazon would be in dollars. So the exchange rate would be in his favor.


Ill admit I have utterly no idea which Godless heathen money is worth more or less than the other ;)


well my friend is concerned that it might not work or it's a bannable offense, circumventing unfair price tags.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#6 - 2013-12-19 15:22:26 UTC
Lina Theist wrote:


well my friend is concerned that it might not work or it's a bannable offense, circumventing unfair price tags.


I was joking. Just contact Amazon and get them to move her account to the Euro one. Sorted.

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Iko Fumimasa
State War Academy
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-12-19 16:13:20 UTC
Lina Theist wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Lina Theist wrote:


Well my friend usually pays his subscription in euros, while amazon would be in dollars. So the exchange rate would be in his favor.


Ill admit I have utterly no idea which Godless heathen money is worth more or less than the other ;)


well my friend is concerned that it might not work or it's a bannable offense, circumventing unfair price tags.


AFAIK CCP doesn't care where the money comes from, game time is game time. Think of it like this, is it bannable if your, uh, friend, was to continue a sub with a plex I purchased in the US for them?

To be 100% sure you could petition it, but really, game time is game time, CCP gets paid either way.

"We are pod pilots. We're the Joneses of outer space. So long as they make me decent sandwiches and stay the **** out of my face, my crew is doing their job." - Logical 101
Lina Theist
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2013-12-19 16:21:55 UTC
Iko Fumimasa wrote:
Lina Theist wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Lina Theist wrote:


Well my friend usually pays his subscription in euros, while amazon would be in dollars. So the exchange rate would be in his favor.


Ill admit I have utterly no idea which Godless heathen money is worth more or less than the other ;)


well my friend is concerned that it might not work or it's a bannable offense, circumventing unfair price tags.


AFAIK CCP doesn't care where the money comes from, game time is game time. Think of it like this, is it bannable if your, uh, friend, was to continue a sub with a plex I purchased in the US for them?

To be 100% sure you could petition it, but really, game time is game time, CCP gets paid either way.


Well this way they'd get paid slightly less, but I agree with your reasoning
Kryptik Kai
Cool Beans Inc.
The Initiative.
#9 - 2013-12-19 19:00:13 UTC
CCP wouldn't care, and unless your friend is spending a TON of money on eve, the government probably wouldn't bother with hunting him/her down for the VAT tax he/she avoided

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Lina Theist
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2013-12-19 19:59:43 UTC
Well it's done. If I don't reply to this thread with results it means, uh, my friend has been caught.
Garnoo
Eternity INC.
Goonswarm Federation
#11 - 2013-12-19 20:42:51 UTC
the only reason why he put US adress is to not pay VAT tax (we got it in Europe) and it wasnt 'by mistake' :)

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Pytria Le'Danness
Placid Reborn
#12 - 2013-12-20 10:47:46 UTC
What might happen is that Amazon contacts y... err your friend or voids the order since they might see the activity as the result of a successful hacker attack. An... er... similar friend of mine got an alarming email from them and the order was cancelled, but after some clarification the next order went through.