click amazon icon on launcher in 12.10 will bring you to amazon.cn, instead of amazon.com

[ZhengPeng Hou]

latest update Quantal, located in China, when click on the icon on unity's launcher of Amazon will bring you to amazon.cn.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity-lens-shopping 6.0.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-6.6-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 25 12:04:15 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120728.1)
SourcePackage: unity-lens-shopping
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

Thanks for the feedback ZhengPeng. That functionality is as designed, it take you to the local Amazon store (based on your Geo IP).

Can you explain why that is not working for you?

Cheers, Will

[Chris Hermansen (c-hermansen)]

We Canadian users of Kindles have a similar problem.

Amazon Canada does not provide us access to the Amazon Kindle book store. For that we have to go to amazon.com.

99% or more of my use of Amazon is to buy books from the Kindle store. So going to amazon.ca is kind of pointless.

[Chris Hermansen (c-hermansen)]

This problem seems to now be resolved by two circumstances, at least for me as a Canadian user:

1. Amazon Canada now provides access to the kindle store, so there isn't as much need to visit Amazon.com
2. the app now (in 13.10) takes me to amazon.com

So it may be ok to mark this as "fix released"...

[David Barth (dbarth)]

The bug is no longer valid