Here in Turkey, there are folks buying from US and selling with a small premium ($50ish), worked well for my son's Paperwhite 2 (with ads). You can tell Amazon that you don't live in US and they disable ads instantly [1]. Sometimes, you need to change your country in the Amazon profile to buy a book from US store and back, but I can live with that.

{1] http://www.labnol.org/software/remove-kindle-ads/28341/