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by labd5507 4316 days ago
Honestly, I'd get an EIN from the IRS http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ... For international businesses, it requires a phone call but supposedly it's not terribly difficult. Get a mail forwarding serving so you have a US address for Amazon payments, and from there it's just a matter of sorting out a bank account or US credit card. That might be a bit more difficult, but the easiest thing to do (if a little bit of a grey area) would be to get someone in the States to get a prepaid card like Serve AmEx, Bluebird AmEx, or prepaid Paypal mastercard. All of those cards are prepaid, but they have a routing and account number that could be set up as a bank account on Amazon Payments. The Paypal one would probably be especially handy since it could be funded from a foreign bank account or a PayPal account.