[mb-users] Not an Amazon [IMPORT] means United States release?

[Aaron Cooper]

On 9-Jul-08, at 7:51 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> On 8-Jul-08, at 11:55 PM, Grant wrote:
>
> > If my CD seems to match an Amazon CD (artist, release title, label)
> > and Amazon doesn't list it as an import, should I enter the  
> country as
> > United States?  Also, I noticed there's an Unknown Country option  
> so I
> > guess the country actually is optional?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AmazonRelationshipType
>
> Don't use Import ASINs if you can help it.  Try to find the same ASIN
> on another Amazon domain by switching the .com to .co.uk or .de
> or .co.jp.  And no, do not set the release country to USA or use the
> release date from an Import.
>
> Aaron, I guess you didn't read Grant's question carefully enough! I  
> understood Grant's question as "If it does not say Import, is it  
> US?" My answer: AFAIK Amazon.com never writes 'US release", so  
> you'll have to do as if no "Import" meant "US". But it does not mean  
> the first release was US, only that you found a US release.
>
> The country is optional if you have a CD in your hands but don't  
> know where it comes from (you could have bought it second hand, or  
> stolen it), all the info you can enter in MB is the label/catalog/ 
> barcode/format (which is valid). I can't see why you would enter the  
> date without the country, but maybe someone has an idea.

Haha!  That's what I get for reading emails when I first wake up!

Sorry about that.

-Aaron