Argentinian here. Yesterday i received a package of six books from Amazon at home. The package arrived 2 weeks later than Amazon's estimation, but besides that everything went smoothly. No extra charges or anything of that sort.
This is merely anecdotal, and the results are really quite random.
You might get it two weeks later at home, or you might have to pick it up at the customs at Ezeiza (about 3 hours trips from where I lived last time in happened) six months later with a 50% tax. Other packages simply never arrived.
Between the randomness, and the huge taxes added, average people don't even consider things like buying in Amazon. And definitely not even close to a scale of how it's done in the US.
Yes, it totally is. And i didn't mean for it to have any statistical significance.
But anecdotal data can help. I took the "risk" of buying books on Amazon only after asking other people about their (totally anecdotal) experiences with it. And now that i've had a good experience, i plan to keep using it despite the known problems. YMMV.
