Highly unlikely that they're going to implement this in countries that don't have Prime.

There is no Amazon site for Ireland.

I can buy things from any of their sites. However...

- Amazon.co.uk refuses to ship a number of items outside of Great Britain.

- Amazon.com has expensive shipping (obviously), and now this thing.

- Amazon.de doesn't usually help. Besides, I can't read German.

Looking at the Grand Theft Auto example, it's available from Amazon.com but not Amazon.co.uk; the latter, as mentioned, refuses to ship it to me. Amazon.com... might not; I can't tell, now can I? It refuses to let me add to cart without having a Prime membership.

So it looks to me like they've done exactly that.

> Amazon.de doesn't usually help. Besides, I can't read German.

The German Amazon site is available in English too. http://www.amazon.de/gp/switch-language/homepage.html/ref=cs...

Well, the site controls are. The item descriptions usually aren't.

On amazon.co.uk, you can frequently find a different seller that ships to your country though. I often get the message "this item can't be shipped to Switzerland". Then I click on "new and used from..." and there is the same item only one pence more expensive, but I can get it shipped to CH. No idea why Amazon can't be bothered to display the one I actually can order to CH first.