Amazon GC no longer available through Gyft - Alternatives? - page 2.

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Quote from: European Central Bank on April 06, 2018, 06:36:02 PM

this has nothing to do with bitcoin or any individual company, a short while back amazon US and canada completely stopped third party companies selling gift cards. doesn't matter if it's for dollars or bitcoin. for americans they have to buy from private sellers or amazon.

amazon elsewhere for some reason still allows third party sales.

https://esellercafe.com/amazon-restricts-gift-card-purchases-from-gift-card-malls/

damn it. i was about to post that i couldn't find anything to corroborate this, and how it's weird that no one's talking about it.

but then i went on eGifter. they shut down amazon too! Cry

however, it seems like eGifter left a loophole (in the US only). they say you can still buy amazon gift cards using "an 'eGifter swap' performed by a gift recipient." here's how that works:

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When you receive a gift card on eGifter as a gift from someone else, you can exchange the gift card brand they sent you for another gift card brand, including Amazon.com. To do this, click the “Exchange Gift” button on the gift before you claim it. Upon verifying that you want to exchange the brand you received, you will have an eGifter Swap Card that you can use for any gift card of the same value available on eGifter.

The only current limitation for using an eGifter Swap Card is if you select Amazon.com. In this case, the Amazon.com card cannot exceed the value of the eGifter Swap card. Additionally, if you combine other brand gift cards with Amazon.com in your eGifter shopping cart, you will only be able to use the following payment methods at checkout:

i haven't tried it, but it looks like you can still buy most gift cards with bitcoin, then "gift it to yourself" (different account) and then swap it. my friend swears by eGifter and has put thousands through it, so i might try this out next time i need one.

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The Currency Exchange section of the forum in Marketplace is a good place to look for conversions to almost anything from BTC or other crypto. Just open a thread there, make an exchange, and you're done. Make sure you use escrow when you purchase anything on the forum that you're not willing to lose, a brief list of escrowers can be found here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-escrows-trade-safely-855778.

I've had good experiences ordering Steam GCs totalling a few hundred dollars from SteamGamesBTC.com, and they also seem to sell Amazon GCs (albeit only $10 cards, and at a premium- $11.90). If you want to go this route, this is the link to the listing: http://steamgamesbtc.com/index.php?page=item&id=12.

Egifter's also a good option; I've ordered about $200 in Amazon GCs from them and they were all delivered in a timely fashion. Paxful may also be a viable option, but I haven't tried using them yet.

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this has nothing to do with bitcoin or any individual company, a short while back amazon US and canada completely stopped third party companies selling gift cards. doesn't matter if it's for dollars or bitcoin. for americans they have to buy from private sellers or amazon.

amazon elsewhere for some reason still allows third party sales.

https://esellercafe.com/amazon-restricts-gift-card-purchases-from-gift-card-malls/

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Quote from: squatter on April 06, 2018, 11:22:40 AM

Last night, I went to buy some Amazon gift cards with BTC on Gyft. They weren't available. I figured it was a temporary thing, an API issue or something, because that's happened before. But I emailed them about it and they responded, "Amazon is no longer available through Gyft." Undecided

Are there any similar alternatives? I really liked having a corporate reseller because you could always trust that their cards weren't fraudulent.

With P2P or things like Purse, fraud is really common, so I'm looking for a reputable reseller like Gyft.

You can try using egifter like omega suggested. I have bought a couple of cards before. Just had an issue once where there was an error with payment. The support team resolved my issue quickly and i was quite happy with their service. You could give it a go.

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I found a thread where I think you can buy amazon gift card or coins or directly to your email, but this is not the same as gyft or a website unlike the other website they mention here in your thread, but he is member of this forum so you can deal with him directly.

Check his thread here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/amazon-gift-card-balance-for-bitcoin-amazon-coins-playstation-xbox-1789747

I hope that you can use escrow if you are deal a huge amount of bitcoin to him.

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I have to say that this reasoning by Amazon is stupid. They closed the account because the user tried to pay with invalid cards. Last I checked you can add card balance to your Amazon account and it's being validated right there. If the card is invalid, the code gets rejected and that's it. Your code can get rejected for instance because of a typo or when you're trying to reuse an old code by mistake. Things like that happen and I have never heard of anyone's account being blocked for that reason.
If the code got accepted it means it was legit and the user could use it to pay for things. There's even a way to check the validity and balance of a code without adding it to the balance.

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Quote from: coupable on April 06, 2018, 12:18:49 PM

Amazon rejects Gyft since a long time. The issue has been discussed long time ago. Here a complain from a user one year ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/67j6ih/amazon_is_rejecting_gyftcom_gift_card_codes/

I've used them for ~ 4 years and bought hundreds of gift cards without a problem.

In that thread, Amazon mentions multiple invalid gift cards. It's not clear where the prior cards were bought from. There's no way they closed his account over one $125 card. We don't know their fraud detection methods; it may have been automatic when he redeemed another gift card regardless. It almost looks like they swiped the money to recoup prior losses from fraud.

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It's hard to get Amazon gift cards these days (at least without break any amazon rules) due to rules such as restrict selling AGC from specific country outside US.

I wonder why Gyft dropped them. eGifter is US-only apparently. I'm in the US so that works for me.

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I never tried them myself so I couldn't tell you from a personal experience but I definitely saw other people recommending the service. I have traded with two members[1][2] in the last few months with Amazon gift cards/balance, I suggest contacting them.

[1] https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/milkz-408677 (I made a WTB thread but I believe he have his own thread too)
[2] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/amazon-gift-card-balance-for-bitcoin-amazon-coins-playstation-xbox-1789747

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Amazon rejects Gyft since a long time. The issue has been discussed long time ago. Here a complain from a user one year ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/67j6ih/amazon_is_rejecting_gyftcom_gift_card_codes/
Paxfon still the only avaiale option to trade those cards via bitcoin.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on April 06, 2018, 11:29:01 AM

You can try eGifter: https://www.egifter.com/giftcards/amazon (U.S cards only)

Thanks. I'm in the US so I'll check them out. Any idea how reputable they are, or how long they've been around?

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on April 06, 2018, 11:29:01 AM

I would still recommend going with other individuals as the rates would be lower. I have been scammed on Paxful once personally so I don't suggest it but trading here on the forums should be less risky.

I used to buy a good deal of Starbucks cards on the forums a couple years back. A lot of them ended up being carded. I wasn't too concerned then, but I'm more paranoid about my Amazon account because it's linked to my identity and physical address. Maybe if I found a very reputable trader on here who loads gift cards himself, but dealing with randoms in the marketplace sounds risky. Stuff like this scares the crap out of me: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2po40d/since_my_house_is_being_searched_right_now_small/

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You can try eGifter: https://www.egifter.com/giftcards/amazon (U.S cards only)

I would still recommend going with other individuals as the rates would be lower. I have been scammed on Paxful once personally so I don't suggest it but trading here on the forums should be less risky.

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Last night, I went to buy some Amazon gift cards with BTC on Gyft. They weren't available. I figured it was a temporary thing, an API issue or something, because that's happened before. But I emailed them about it and they responded, "Amazon is no longer available through Gyft." Undecided

Are there any similar alternatives? I really liked having a corporate reseller because you could always trust that their cards weren't fraudulent.

With P2P or things like Purse, fraud is really common, so I'm looking for a reputable reseller like Gyft.

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