How can I access a USA retail website?

missgiddypants

Hi,

Hoping somebody knows the answer to this please:

I'm off the Florida next weekend and wanted to get on to a couple of US websites (Guess & Abercrombie) to plan my holiday purchases but both sites divert me to the European sites which sell different items & obv don't display their prices in Dollars.

Does anyone know of a Firefox add-on or any other way of getting on to the sites please?

Thanks

Tyler_Du

http://hidemyass.com/proxy/

scheming_gypsy

it depends why it's diverting you...
Option 1 - it's auto detecting your location from your IP address and pointing you to your nearest location.
solution - it'll auto correct when you're abroad

Option 2 - you've logged on previously and chosen the UK & Europe as your default location
solution - either delete cookies relating to the site, or just use a different browser as they don't share cookies.

missgiddypants

Managed to get on using hidemyass - thank you

They divert you to the nearest location but I wanted to check out the US prices and plan my shopping list!!

Amba_Gambla

Tyler_Durden_UK wrote: »

http://hidemyass.com/proxy/

I wouldn't be too eager to put my credit card details into a foreign site via a proxy..... Remember, all the information goes via the 3rd party site (where it could easily be skimmed off).

Would 3rd party proxy sites work with https?

esuhl

^^ Definitely not a good idea to enter sensitive data using a proxied connection. Some proxies are set up just to harvest credit card details, so I hear...

S0litaire

no need for proxies!!
just check the site for a location link!!
it'll be there somewhere!! it will usually autodetect your region but you can change it easily.

What site's you are visiting?

esuhl

If I go to the German site for the new Trackmania 2 game, it tells me that the game is not available in my region, unless I use a German proxy. I don't see why I should pay £19.99 for it when across the rest of the world it's priced at €19.99, but it doesn't look like there's an easy way to do that.

There should be laws to prevent products being charged at different rates just because of the location of the purchaser... Isn't that just like racism... or locationism, at least?!