An author, some of whose books I enjoy, wants to be helpful and send customers to the ārightā Amazon Store, based on geolocation. Sheās not the only author to do this. It infuriates me! I use US Amazon not Aus. I end up at the wrong store then have to mess about to fix things. š
@Miraz Arrrgh! I have a similar situation with Audible, which, after they opened audible.co.uk wants me to go there, instead of .com, where I actually have my subscription.
To make things worse, while I was a bit distracted, I logged into the .co.uk, and got a welcome offer. And now, I always get the message that Iāve been trying to redeem something the wrong way or somethingā¦ š©
@odd Heh. I emailed the service and the author. The author replied immediately and mentioned she has a similar problem with Audible! Annoying for you though.
@Miraz Oh no, I actually really like those āuniversal linkā things! Because I do use the Aus store, when people just link to the US store itās useless to me. The US store page will ālink toā the same item on the Aus store, but actually it just does a search of the Aus store for the book title, which unless itās ultra unique means the book I actually wanted usually isnāt one of the first resultsā¦ š Itās really user-hostile. I feel like some of the āuniversal linkā things let end users set their preferred stores, which would be helpful if itās one of those. (I mean, the truly good ones donāt just link to Amazon, either š)
@jayeless Iād be fine with the universal link thing if it let me somehow specify first time through: I prefer X and then always used that, or if it gave me some easily clickable thing when I get to the wrong place to get to the right place.
@Miraz Yeah, I agree with that. I think ideally youād have both: the universal link site should ask for (and remember) your preference the first time you see the site, and Amazon (and other stores) should be able to link you directly to the item page for whatever youāre looking at in a different countryās store. Iām really not sure why Amazon in particular finds that so hard.