How to get a US iTunes account - for free! (with no credit card)

Mississauga

I recall the best method for payment on a U.S. iTunes account for us Canuckistanis is PayPal.

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mrhud

But Paypal is linked to a CAD credit card. This does not cause some sort of conflict at all?

Mississauga

I don't believe the store cares what credit card was used to create the PayPal account. PayPal is international.

Somebody HAS to chime in on this. Surely there are Canuckistanis buying E-merican content!

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Crewser

I tried with my PayPal, and it would not let me proceed, said it had to be a US account to work. I then went with the OP's method and it worked easily. Only small issue was deleting the 34 songs you get with the free code. Perhaps there is a way to avoid this but all is good here.

Thanks kgirl24 for this post.

Zapodidae

Can you send your US "friend" a gift certificate from Canada to use in the US store?

nick24

Bumping this thread given the announcement of NBC shows coming back to iTunes.

Plus I just signed up for a US account using this method and it works perfectly. You've just got to keep your eyes open for the "none" option at the end of the lines of credit card payment methods.

btw - there are $200US iTunes gift cards on ebay for about $110CAD as we speak.

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JamesX

just a quick questions, should I setup this US account before I update to Itunes 8.0 or before?

Bottom line, will I have any problems setting up US account with Itunes 8.0 ?

Tx in advance.

thatcomputerguy

not sure Jamesx, i was a bit worried when i was installing the new itunes and reading the agreements in itunes for the US store, but i had no problem downloading the free song yesterday afterwards from both CDN and US stores.

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JamesX

Tx computerguy,

on another note - I am thinking about buying apple tv, is it simple to just switch back and forth between us and cdn accounts on apple tv? is it just like how you sign in and out of itunes with the cdn and us flags at the bottom?

nick24

jamesx - I had no problem with iTunes 8, but then again it was a fresh install...so to truthfully answer your question, I don't know!

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