Sending Gift To Canada Via Amazon--How To?

October 28, 2022 1:17 PM

Person A lives in Canada, has an Amazon.ca account and a wish list on the Amazon.ca account. Person B lives in the US, has an Amazon.com account, but wants to send a gift to Person A from Person A's Amazon.ca's wish list. How does this work? Does Person B need to create an Amazon.ca account as well? What are the steps that Person B will have to take to send the gift to Person A? Will it be so complicated that Person B will wind up not bothering? Thanks!
posted by purplesludge to Shopping (7 answers total)

Best answer: > Does Person B need to create an Amazon.ca account as well?

Yes, I think this is the way. I've done this for Amazon Japan to send a gift in Japan and it was pretty easy.
posted by ripley_ at 1:19 PM on October 28, 2022 [5 favorites]

Best answer: Yes I use both Canadian and US Amazon, and I just sign in to whichever one (.com or .ca) I want to use. Be careful on the app though, you can switch between with a few taps - I have ordered on the wrong one out of haste and that was a shipping charge I do not care to repeat.
posted by wellred at 1:45 PM on October 28, 2022 [3 favorites]

Best answer: Yeah, just make an account on Amazon.ca. It's easy.
posted by number9dream at 2:34 PM on October 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

Best answer: I've got Amazon accounts for Canada, the US and Japan. Makes it much easier to send things to people instead of buying here and then shipping myself.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 2:49 PM on October 28, 2022

Best answer: I live in Canada but have family in the US, and my log in is the same for both. It functions like one account but shows different items and shipping options depending on whether you go to .com or .ca. (And I can't use .com gift cards on .ca)
posted by elizabot at 10:47 PM on October 28, 2022 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: Thanks everyone!
posted by purplesludge at 12:58 AM on October 29, 2022

I've logged into and bought stuff from Amazon US and Amazon Germany using my Amazon UK account details. As far as I know you can use one Amazon account for any of their regional sites.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 5:08 AM on October 29, 2022