#Is it possible to buy things through EU eshop on EU 3ds with American card as payment?

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dusty pulsar
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you'll need to register one EU NNID and one EU Nintendo Account, and you will probably be able to charge funds with your US card through PayPal (with one of the supported card type)
but... well, no guarantee, as Nintendo officially stated that you need the card issued from your account country.
However, you can also region change the EU 3ds to US (delete eshop profile before doing it if there's already one on it) and see if you can get into eshop, if you can't, ask here again to fix eshop access for region changed console.

willow wing
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Certain countries limit payment cards tok ones registered to addresses in their country

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You'll need to import points cards to bypass that

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Points card must match country of nnid

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Game selection and pricing depends on country, you must pick one

willow wing
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You find a store in the target country that will mail you an eshop card or email you the code on it

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Like if you set to UK, you can only use UK points cards, or a UK credit card paying in pounds

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Can't use a card from Germany

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USA can't use Canadian cards, even though same region

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Only on a device other than the 3ds

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Like what you are using for discord

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Needs to be a modern web browser or device

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Can do it with pc, phone, switch, etc

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Nintendo detailed all of this in their announcement last year

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E region accounts have had to do it this way since 2019

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The instructions aren't hard to find

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Covered it in #announcements

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There's not that much terminology

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Nintendo has 2 account systems, nnid and Nintendo account

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Nnid is old, 3ds and wiiu only, being retired

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Nintendo account is the current one, for switch and pc/phone

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Nintendo account is all that can add funds as of May or August, globally, and 2019 for Europe /Australia

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Nnid can link to Nintendo account to share funds

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3ds can't have a Nintendo account

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I told you that you link them

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Nnid stopped being able to add funds directly in Europe in 2019, rest of world last year

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Connect the two accounts, add funds via Nintendo account

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You'd need a matching country Nintendo account as nnid to share funds

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E region system can only use accounts from the countries in e region

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Funds can't share if countries are different