{"id":132,"date":"2009-02-16T02:08:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T17:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-04-16T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T00:56:10","slug":"global-book-ordering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Global Book Ordering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I found a reasonably priced book on Amazon.co.uk available through one of their external sellers. Said seller is in Florida. As always when ordering such things I got three emails confirming the order: Amazon confirming the order; Amazon confirming the payment to the external seller; the external seller confirming receipt of the order. The odd thing is that the external seller sent me their confirmation message in Japanese. As this is a prolific external Amazon seller, whose trading name I vaguely recognise, I can only think that I&#8217;ve ordered from this seller via Amazon.co.jp (with whom I also have an account, of course) and their system somehow managed to tie up the two separate accounts &#8211; not difficult by any means given I don&#8217;t try to hide my identity particularly on these transactions, but it would take some work since the co.uk and co.jp accounts and indeed stores are separate entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I found a reasonably priced book on Amazon.co.uk available through one of their external sellers. Said seller is in Florida. As always when ordering such things I got three emails confirming the order: Amazon confirming the order; Amazon confirming the payment to the external seller; the external seller confirming receipt of the order. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}