Im thinking of pre-purchasing the new expansion and I stared to wonder if I buy it from the US shop in dollars,will i be able to get them on my Eu account.Reason is cus in dollars it is a lot cheper then in euro.
I do not think it is server restricted: you buy with the currency of the country you currently reside in... Do not take my work for it, check before but I think you can use dollars (ideal being buying amazon coins with dollars and buying with the amazon coins of course)
Even if you can fool blizz into taking a USD payment for your EUR account, that will be worse than just using amazon legitimately in the EU.
The super optimum rate would be to use US amazon to do a US blizz purchase for your EU account, but then you would have to fool both Amazon and Blizz systems to let you use deals intended for US customers.
In total this will probably save you around 10 EUR at most compared to just doing it with EU amazon and is probably a lot more hassle than it's worth. Also when something inevitably goes wrong and you have to call amazon or blizz customer support, you're going to struggle to justify what you're doing.
Was just wondering about this and went to the US shop, even though I am located in and playing on EU.
Can purchase in USD, and then pick which region the purchase will be for.
So, looks like there is no point in anyone from EU buying from the EU store for 50€, when you can get the same for 40€ from the US store, with no extra effort (like e.g. Amazon coins would be).
Or you could stop trying to be a cheapskate and scamming the system. Just an idea. You have to pay tax on paying dollars from a UK bank account anyway.
Or you could stop trying to be a cheapskate and scamming the system. Just an idea. You have to pay tax on paying dollars from a UK bank account anyway.
:-P
Well, if Blizzard actually went through the effort to implement the feature (they did, you can go to any store and purchase the packs to use on another region, you just have to specify the region and lock it in), it implies they have no problem with this, no?
The other part of your statement is... interesting. You guys have to pay additional tax when purchasing stuff in foreign currencies? How does that work? (I get that the bank would have an unfavorable conversion rate, but a tax??) And I thought my country rips people off...
I always buy coins on US amazon and then purchase the packs from the Amazon HS app. This way I preordered for around 33€, which was imo worth the hassle over buying for 50€.
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Hello,
Im thinking of pre-purchasing the new expansion and I stared to wonder if I buy it from the US shop in dollars,will i be able to get them on my Eu account.Reason is cus in dollars it is a lot cheper then in euro.
Thanks in advance
I do not think it is server restricted: you buy with the currency of the country you currently reside in... Do not take my work for it, check before but I think you can use dollars (ideal being buying amazon coins with dollars and buying with the amazon coins of course)
I thought of doing so but I have never before bought amazon coins and dont know how exactly it works
well im from Europe too,I went on here https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/hearthstone-the-witchwood and after i clicked buy it let me chose a region.Thats why I got confused
Even if you can fool blizz into taking a USD payment for your EUR account, that will be worse than just using amazon legitimately in the EU.
The super optimum rate would be to use US amazon to do a US blizz purchase for your EU account, but then you would have to fool both Amazon and Blizz systems to let you use deals intended for US customers.
In total this will probably save you around 10 EUR at most compared to just doing it with EU amazon and is probably a lot more hassle than it's worth. Also when something inevitably goes wrong and you have to call amazon or blizz customer support, you're going to struggle to justify what you're doing.
I'm in Australia and I use the NA server. Purchases are in AUD because of my cards with blizz.
I've found Amazon find are the best way to go. Much cheaper
Was just wondering about this and went to the US shop, even though I am located in and playing on EU.
Can purchase in USD, and then pick which region the purchase will be for.
So, looks like there is no point in anyone from EU buying from the EU store for 50€, when you can get the same for 40€ from the US store, with no extra effort (like e.g. Amazon coins would be).
Am I missing something?
Or you could stop trying to be a cheapskate and scamming the system. Just an idea. You have to pay tax on paying dollars from a UK bank account anyway.
:-P
And I thought my country rips people off...
You didn't have any problem with the billing adress?
Nope, no problems. Everything went through smoothly (was paying with PayPal)
Not related but you can buy the pre-purchase with amazon coins? If so, how much would it cost in canadian dollars?
EDIT: Nevermind, apparently Amazon Coins are unavailable in Canada :(
And the pre-purchase is 70 CAD$, rip my packs
I always buy coins on US amazon and then purchase the packs from the Amazon HS app. This way I preordered for around 33€, which was imo worth the hassle over buying for 50€.