Well Im not a US citizen, but I went to Miami for a week and bought my Nexus 7 2013 on a best buy store, I received an email saying I got a playstore 25$ gift card, I wanted to redeem it but it says I cannot redeem from my country!
What do I have to do so I can redeem my giftcard if Im not in the US? please help! thanks in advance
Create another google account with a US address? I don't think they are exchangable across countries.
Pretty sure you don't need an american address. the only thing you need is an american ip address when you sign up for the account.
my primary account is from switzerland and the second has the same name but .us... [email protected]
Long story short, create a new google account while in the us and all will be good.
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I want to buy a galaxy nexus from the play store...
I have managed to use a US ip in order to access the payment section, then I realized they seem to ship the phone worldwide.
So im really confused I thought this special fare was just for US citizens, anyone knows if I can really buy it and then they will ship it to Chile indeed?
Thanks
My understanding is they will only ship to the US.
martonikaj said:
My understanding is they will only ship to the US.
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I also tried using a VPN to access the Play Store from outside the USA and it worked, but I had to add a US shipping address (the one of my cousin), but then I found that my italian credit cards are not accepted as payment method, is it a Must to have US credit card? what if I want to send it to my cousin as a gift?
As I have this working on my One I thought I would link to this here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2281073
It's brilliant by the way.
worked brilliantly for the month until today when it tried to process payment and couldn't
anyone have similar issues?
My payment went through with no issues.
Strange.
ajpettit said:
worked brilliantly for the month until today when it tried to process payment and couldn't
anyone have similar issues?
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I tried trial access then it asked me for full address and phone number so I entered everything from Empire State Building lol. After it went through and got it activated, I went back to Google wallet after I turned off my VPN. I changed back my address to the UK and now everything works just fine, your payment will also go through
It works, you just have to change your credit card adress to an america adress zip code and phone number so that google wallet will accept it even if your credit card is not an america one. Tthen activate it and change it back to your own adress and it works flawless.
Don't know if the payment will work at the end of the month. Just have to wait till 31th of July.
I signed up in the UK, using a US address on my UK card the day they announced it.... They've taken payments fine and it's all still working very well
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
All access is working fine ! Though I can't buy songs from Google play ! Error BB PP MM 20 ! from India BTW
Thanks!
I am going to wait for the official launch as my bank (Natwest) is charging me £1 when the payment comes out because it's in US Dollars..
FTMDan said:
I am going to wait for the official launch as my bank (Natwest) is charging me £1 when the payment comes out because it's in US Dollars..
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They refund it back when you cancel the subscription ! That's a fee to confirm your payment method !
syedishtu said:
They refund it back when you cancel the subscription ! That's a fee to confirm your payment method !
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Not according to my banks T&C's:
Debit card charges
Transaction type
Purchases made outside the UK (for
example, purchasing goods in a shop) OR:
Purchases made anywhere in a foreign
currency (for example, online/telephone
purchases made in or outside the UK)
We will charge a Foreign Purchase Fee of 2.75% of the value of
the transaction (minimum £1).
FTMDan said:
Not according to my banks T&C's:
Debit card charges
Transaction type
Purchases made outside the UK (for
example, purchasing goods in a shop) OR:
Purchases made anywhere in a foreign
currency (for example, online/telephone
purchases made in or outside the UK)
We will charge a Foreign Purchase Fee of 2.75% of the value of
the transaction (minimum £1).
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Well ! What I told what was the fee Google charged you would be refunded back on cancellation! At least I got it refunded !
Hi,
How to download the free App on fire tv, I don't have a billing address of USA?
Can someone share some free app for us? I want to get spotify,BBC,CNN,CBS,etc apps for my fire tv.
thanks a lot.
You can get USA and UK shipping address on borderlinx . Free and legal.
It's not same between billing address and shipping address, they will check billing a
cungalunga said:
You can get USA and UK shipping address on borderlinx . Free and legal.
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It's not same between billing address and shipping address, they will check billing address!
It all depends on the credit card. I use a parcel service the billing is different then shipping and I have many purchases from amazon. Capital One is confirmed working. My PC master card I had to go through a verification process.
Can I get a card with USA billing address from Capital One ?
radmacks said:
It all depends on the credit card. I use a parcel service the billing is different then shipping and I have many purchases from amazon. Capital One is confirmed working. My PC master card I had to go through a verification process.
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Hi,
I am a Chinese.
If I pay deposit money to them, can I get a prepaid visa card with USA billing address from Capital One so that I can download free amazon APP?
thanks
blackantt said:
Hi,
I am a Chinese.
If I pay deposit money to them, can I get a prepaid visa card with USA billing address from Capital One so that I can download free amazon APP?
thanks
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I'm not sure. Only way to find out is to try sorry
Simple solution is to get a virtual debit card and attach any US billing address to it. That way you don't have to bother with mail forwarding since they won't even send a card out.
I have never noticed it make any difference what company the card is with. As long as it is branded with one of amazon's accepted payment methods, and has an address. I have used prepaid greendot cards to verify billing address.
maybe something like usunlocked.com would do the trick for you. I have never used them and am not affiliated, but they claim to offer a Visa branded card that works with amazon
I'm looking for anyone who can help me out with any photo's or proof of their $100 playstore credits from Bell. I preordered the Pixel XL on October 6th, received the phone October 24th, and should have received my credit by October 25th, it's now the 30th and I have received nothing, I've been on the phone with Bell countless times, I've been in store twice, and been in contact with google twice with no avail.
Bell keeps trying to tell me this promotion doesn't exist and they don't show anything about it and that I need to take it up with Google. Google tells me I bought the phone with Bell so the preorder offer is to only be fulfilled with Bell.
It's an endless loop that I've been suffering through for the last 7 hours and I'm looking for any proof of this offer so I can send it to them or possibly lawyers because they seems to be trying to hide their ass and playing it off like nothing like this existed. The only information I can now find on this offer is on MobileSyrup with a list of the offers that were listed for preorders.
Since the phone was released, all carriers have now charged their preorder pages so not show the preorder offers (obviously, because the preorders can no longer be preordered)
Rogers was offering a free chromecast and a $50 playstore credit, Bell and Telus were both offering $100 playstore credits, and Google directly was offering a free Daydreamer VR voucher for when it's released.
So please, any help on this, confirmations from Bell texts showing you received a code, pictures of the preorder offer proving there was a $100 playstore credit offered, emails or sms showing proof of this offer, screen shots of their webpage, anything because they're trying to screw me out of this and if I had known this was going to be such a pain in the ass to get my $100 credit I would have just bought it from Google and got a VR voucher instead.
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I'm looking for anyone who can help me out with any photo's or proof of their $100 playstore credits from Bell. I preordered the Pixel XL on October 6th, received the phone October 24th, and should have received my credit by October 25th, it's now the 30th and I have received nothing, I've been on the phone with Bell countless times, I've been in store twice, and been in contact with google twice with no avail.
Bell keeps trying to tell me this promotion doesn't exist and they don't show anything about it and that I need to take it up with Google. Google tells me I bought the phone with Bell so the preorder offer is to only be fulfilled with Bell.
It's an endless loop that I've been suffering through for the last 7 hours and I'm looking for any proof of this offer so I can send it to them or possibly lawyers because they seems to be trying to hide their ass and playing it off like nothing like this existed. The only information I can now find on this offer is on MobileSyrup with a list of the offers that were listed for preorders.
Since the phone was released, all carriers have now charged their preorder pages so not show the preorder offers (obviously, because the preorders can no longer be preordered)
Rogers was offering a free chromecast and a $50 playstore credit, Bell and Telus were both offering $100 playstore credits, and Google directly was offering a free Daydreamer VR voucher for when it's released.
So please, any help on this, confirmations from Bell texts showing you received a code, pictures of the preorder offer proving there was a $100 playstore credit offered, emails or sms showing proof of this offer, screen shots of their webpage, anything because they're trying to screw me out of this and if I had known this was going to be such a pain in the ass to get my $100 credit I would have just bought it from Google and got a VR voucher instead.
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The free VR was only available in the US.
Okay well Google told me the only offer they had was for a free VR with preorder, that was when I talked to them earlier today so maybe the person I was speaking with from Google didn't know what was a US offer only, regardless, this is mainly to figure out the Bell preorder offer and according to the local Bell location here, there was 15 preorders at that store and I'm the only person who has come back to say they didn't receive the playstore credit, the local Bell employees are also aware of this offer and have told me that I should have received a text within 24 hours of activating the phone before the 24th and within 48 hours after activating the phone after the 24th, which I activated on the 24th at 8:11pm EST, I still haven't received anything and Bell actually just called me back right now saying they were so and so supervisor who is over looking this issue and she's flat out telling me this doesn't exist and they have never offered this deal. They are flat out lying, I saw it on their website for preorders, and on mobile syrup.com they also quote the identical offers I saw and that's the only source I can find to confirm this was a real offer.
The lady that also called me just now was extremely rude trying to tell me I had to fill out some magical three forums to get the voucher that she previously told me doesn't exist and that I didn't fill them out right which is why I didn't get the preorder, yet I have a receipt and preorder number confirming I do in fact have a preorder about this and have emails to thank me for preordering a Pixel XL with Bell.
Any information from any websites, the more information I have, the more I can prove this offer was real because Bell is flat out lying by telling me this offer does not exist, and within the same call they then told me I didn't fill out the forum for this offer correctly, the offer they just told me doesn't exist.. so something fishy is going on, I've also recorded all calls I've made today as proof because they're trying to pull some sneaky crap right now and I don't trust them at all anymore.
This is the link that quotes the exact sales Bell advertised on their website however white/silver one was only for the pixel in 32gb and 128gb was only offered for the pixel xl and the pixel xl was only offered in black.
At the time of pre-order the 128gb model said sold out so I was never given an option for the xl, only black 32gb at the local bell store.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2016/10/04/h...ing-for-google-pixel-and-pixel-xl-pre-orders/
However, as the phone is now released, Bell changed their website because the "pre-order offer" is no longer in effect since it's been released so that link now brings you to the normal order page for the pixel, which is why Bell is now telling me that offer never existed and I'm apparently making it up and there's a magical form that she hung up on me when I asked her what forum it is so I can ask the local store what forum this is for the preorder to make sure it was filled out and that's how I got my pre-order receipt.
I had the exact same issue. Also got it from Bell with a preorder. I made sure to ask the rep when I ordered about the promotion and she told me I would receive a text message with the code on Oct 25. Long story short...received no such message. Called Bell...they pushed me off to Google. Google pushed me back to Bell. I called Bell again and they acted like I was making it up. I referenced their site had said it but how now changed...I told them about a Mobil Syrup Tech site that still mentioned it and even brought up Rogers having a promotion to...but instead of $100 Google Play Credit...with Rogers it was $50 and a free Chromecast. They eventually agreed to give me a $100 plus tax bill credit instead. I accepted this and then got a $115 credit on my bill. Good luck. Bell is trying to screw us and the fact that they gave me the bill credit made me believe they knew they had done wrong. Wonder how many others they've screwed this way.
Bell phone me again just now and it was someone higher up telling me they're sorry for the issues of me having to call them 6 times today so they did the identical thing, $107.98 bill credit on my next bill so we'll see if it was actually applied on November 7th.
This is pretty shady of them, next promotion I'm taking pictures of all evidence that it actually existed before ever applying for it. Live and let learn that no company can apparently be trusted.
Glad I'm not the only one though. Hopefully they make amends on this and start actually giving out the credit they promised customers.
VeeDaub said:
Bell phone me again just now and it was someone higher up telling me they're sorry for the issues of me having to call them 6 times today so they did the identical thing, $107.98 bill credit on my next bill so we'll see if it was actually applied on November 7th.
This is pretty shady of them, next promotion I'm taking pictures of all evidence that it actually existed before ever applying for it. Live and let learn that no company can apparently be trusted.
Glad I'm not the only one though. Hopefully they make amends on this and start actually giving out the credit they promised customers.
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I plan on doing the same thing with any future promotions. Glad it got worked out for you.
VeeDaub said:
I'm looking for anyone who can help me out with any photo's or proof of their $100 playstore credits from Bell. I preordered the Pixel XL on October 6th, received the phone October 24th, and should have received my credit by October 25th, it's now the 30th and I have received nothing, I've been on the phone with Bell countless times, I've been in store twice, and been in contact with google twice with no avail.
Bell keeps trying to tell me this promotion doesn't exist and they don't show anything about it and that I need to take it up with Google. Google tells me I bought the phone with Bell so the preorder offer is to only be fulfilled with Bell.
It's an endless loop that I've been suffering through for the last 7 hours and I'm looking for any proof of this offer so I can send it to them or possibly lawyers because they seems to be trying to hide their ass and playing it off like nothing like this existed. The only information I can now find on this offer is on MobileSyrup with a list of the offers that were listed for preorders.
Since the phone was released, all carriers have now charged their preorder pages so not show the preorder offers (obviously, because the preorders can no longer be preordered)
Rogers was offering a free chromecast and a $50 playstore credit, Bell and Telus were both offering $100 playstore credits, and Google directly was offering a free Daydreamer VR voucher for when it's released.
So please, any help on this, confirmations from Bell texts showing you received a code, pictures of the preorder offer proving there was a $100 playstore credit offered, emails or sms showing proof of this offer, screen shots of their webpage, anything because they're trying to screw me out of this and if I had known this was going to be such a pain in the ass to get my $100 credit I would have just bought it from Google and got a VR voucher instead.
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Here I went with Play store directly instead of Bell and I got nothing at all.
Google was offering 2 month of Google music with the pixel but I didn't get it because I had a Google music trial in the last year...
I wish I would've been with Bell.
Like many i tried to purchase P6P via Google through klarna ,as we know klarna got it wrong and only approved credit for less than the price of the phone and so no one who would got the finance could purchase it. In the end I got it via Currys and I contacted klana to cancel my contract and remove it from my credit record. They have done this and now sent me an email with a £20 Amazon voucher as a way of apology....so check your emails.
yea got the same email however i havent asked to cancel the account with them yet. I was about to buy some earbuds on amazon so the £20 will be of use.
Same here. I bought out right in the end from Google but the whole thing was a bit of a joke. £20 voucher anyway and account still open so far. Not sure what if everything the situation has in credit score.
86rickard said:
Same here. I bought out right in the end from Google but the whole thing was a bit of a joke. £20 voucher anyway and account still open so far. Not sure what if everything the situation has in credit score.
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My email stated the credit check would be removed from the records by the end of the year so it shouldn't have any bearing on your credit score.