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I notice that there's quite a few things Amazon still doesn't let you buy if you're in Australia. Many physical products, it seems.

I can only guess this is because of distribution rights for certain products in this country. For example, my partner tries to buy nail polish but often she can't. It wouldn't surprise me if a certain distributor has that product stitched up via a distribution contract for all of Australia, therefore allowing them to monopolise price.

Really, if you're not in the US it's often a completely different world for all kinds of e-commerce - anything from physical goods e.g.: off Amazon not being available for arbitrary reasons (even when others are), to media such as Pandora which has only relatively very recently become available here again after being withdrawn for literally years.



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