Ask Amazon for Bitcoin Payments - page 8.

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Quote from: Riniaiokl on June 29, 2014, 03:09:01 PM

Quote from: Riniaiokl on June 29, 2014, 02:47:57 PM

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Quote from: AtomicDoge on May 10, 2014, 09:36:07 AM

In the meantime, use Gyft to purchase at Amazon. If sales numbers are high enough, Amazon might take notice and decide to accept bitcoins directly, just to cut out the middlemen.

Or, if you want to just pay the item cost and not have to round up to the nearest $10, use snapCard.

Snapcard has a 2% surcharge. Gyft actually pays me 3% back on every purchase. There's nothing better out there.

Gyft is great for specific stores, if you don't mind having to buy in the exact increments of those stores' smallest giftcard values. Frequently, I don't mind that. Sometimes I do. More often, I want to shop somewhere not currently available through Gyft.

I hope they expand their store availability. I would definitely use them more if I could buy gift cards at more grocery/super markets and restaurants, but where I am located, there is not so much available to me. Being able to buy Amazon gift cards is great, though.

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Quote from: Riniaiokl on June 29, 2014, 02:47:57 PM

Quote from: Jubettarr on June 29, 2014, 02:39:25 PM

Quote from: AtomicDoge on May 10, 2014, 09:36:07 AM

In the meantime, use Gyft to purchase at Amazon. If sales numbers are high enough, Amazon might take notice and decide to accept bitcoins directly, just to cut out the middlemen.

Or, if you want to just pay the item cost and not have to round up to the nearest $10, use snapCard.

Snapcard has a 2% surcharge. Gyft actually pays me 3% back on every purchase. There's nothing better out there.

Gyft is great for specific stores, if you don't mind having to buy in the exact increments of those stores' smallest giftcard values. Frequently, I don't mind that. Sometimes I do. More often, I want to shop somewhere not currently available through Gyft.

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Quote from: CEG5952 on June 29, 2014, 02:27:39 PM

Amazon already has something called "Amazon Coins" in addition to gift cards. Basically they are like "credits" for Kindle Fire apps and games, etc. and by buying them, you can get those products at a discount. I haven't looked into it too much. Nothing to do with crypto, though.

Right, I think these Amazon Coins, with the name __ Coin, is what leads to people getting confused and thinking that Amazon is interested in making their own competitor to BTC. However, as you rightly point out, this doesn't have anything to do with crypto, it's just like frequent flyer miles on an airline or something.

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Quote from: RUEHL on May 09, 2014, 03:13:30 PM

Check out this Twitter... "@amazon just sent me an email saying they will accept Bitcoin "

https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/464778590161485825

It does say you can rest assured it will be taken care of. I guess BTC at Amazon is in the works

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Quote from: Riniaiokl on June 29, 2014, 02:47:57 PM

Quote from: Jubettarr on June 29, 2014, 02:39:25 PM

Quote from: AtomicDoge on May 10, 2014, 09:36:07 AM

In the meantime, use Gyft to purchase at Amazon. If sales numbers are high enough, Amazon might take notice and decide to accept bitcoins directly, just to cut out the middlemen.

Or, if you want to just pay the item cost and not have to round up to the nearest $10, use snapCard.

Snapcard has a 2% surcharge. Gyft actually pays me 3% back on every purchase. There's nothing better out there.

Depends what you're getting, and where. I'm happy to use Gyft when my purchase comes out pretty close to an integer number of giftcards and if I'm buying from a retailer they have on offer.

But if I'm just buying a cheapo item from Amazon, or if I'm wanting to buy from a site outside Gyft's umbrella, or if I just want to buy from a website without creating a new account on that site, I use snapCard.

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Quote from: Jubettarr on June 29, 2014, 02:39:25 PM

Quote from: AtomicDoge on May 10, 2014, 09:36:07 AM

In the meantime, use Gyft to purchase at Amazon. If sales numbers are high enough, Amazon might take notice and decide to accept bitcoins directly, just to cut out the middlemen.

Or, if you want to just pay the item cost and not have to round up to the nearest $10, use snapCard.

Snapcard has a 2% surcharge. Gyft actually pays me 3% back on every purchase. There's nothing better out there.

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Quote from: AtomicDoge on May 10, 2014, 09:36:07 AM

In the meantime, use Gyft to purchase at Amazon. If sales numbers are high enough, Amazon might take notice and decide to accept bitcoins directly, just to cut out the middlemen.

Or, if you want to just pay the item cost and not have to round up to the nearest $10, use snapCard.

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Amazon already has something called "Amazon Coins" in addition to gift cards. Basically they are like "credits" for Kindle Fire apps and games, etc. and by buying them, you can get those products at a discount. I haven't looked into it too much. Nothing to do with crypto, though.

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Quote from: blatchcorn on June 29, 2014, 02:45:33 AM

Quote from: validium on June 29, 2014, 02:27:26 AM

Quote from: bakada on June 29, 2014, 12:02:29 AM

Quote from: chipmadness on June 28, 2014, 11:53:44 PM

Quote from: novacn on June 28, 2014, 09:05:46 PM

Maybe they'd rather developmen their own digital coin.

There is no doubt in my mind that this won't happen. Amazon loves to try and do everything, but it all sucks

I wouldn't be so surprised if they did. Then again, eventually I also get a feeling that some countries may enable their own form of their local currencies into their own crypto.

I think this has already started happening, for example in Iceland they have auroracoin http://auroracoin.org/

But if amazon decided to make their own coin it wont so successful(marketing it would be too expensive for them) they would be better off using bitcoin.

You do realize that was a spectacular failure?

They would have no reason to make an Amazon coin, that would be of no use to them as they would need it to have a central authority and that is contra to what the crypto currencies are about. Amazon does have a currency of it's own....it is called Amazon Gift Cards

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Quote from: validium on June 29, 2014, 02:27:26 AM

Quote from: bakada on June 29, 2014, 12:02:29 AM

Quote from: chipmadness on June 28, 2014, 11:53:44 PM

Quote from: novacn on June 28, 2014, 09:05:46 PM

Maybe they'd rather developmen their own digital coin.

There is no doubt in my mind that this won't happen. Amazon loves to try and do everything, but it all sucks

I wouldn't be so surprised if they did. Then again, eventually I also get a feeling that some countries may enable their own form of their local currencies into their own crypto.

I think this has already started happening, for example in Iceland they have auroracoin http://auroracoin.org/

But if amazon decided to make their own coin it wont so successful(marketing it would be too expensive for them) they would be better off using bitcoin.

You do realize that was a spectacular failure?

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Quote from: bakada on June 29, 2014, 12:02:29 AM

Quote from: chipmadness on June 28, 2014, 11:53:44 PM

Quote from: novacn on June 28, 2014, 09:05:46 PM

Maybe they'd rather developmen their own digital coin.

There is no doubt in my mind that this won't happen. Amazon loves to try and do everything, but it all sucks

I wouldn't be so surprised if they did. Then again, eventually I also get a feeling that some countries may enable their own form of their local currencies into their own crypto.

I think this has already started happening, for example in Iceland they have auroracoin http://auroracoin.org/

But if amazon decided to make their own coin it wont so successful(marketing it would be too expensive for them) they would be better off using bitcoin.

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Quote from: chipmadness on June 28, 2014, 11:53:44 PM

Quote from: novacn on June 28, 2014, 09:05:46 PM

Maybe they'd rather developmen their own digital coin.

There is no doubt in my mind that this won't happen. Amazon loves to try and do everything, but it all sucks

I wouldn't be so surprised if they did. Then again, eventually I also get a feeling that some countries may enable their own form of their local currencies into their own crypto.

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Quote from: novacn on June 28, 2014, 09:05:46 PM

Maybe they'd rather developmen their own digital coin.

There is no doubt in my mind that this won't happen. Amazon loves to try and do everything, but it all sucks

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Quote from: boumalo on June 20, 2014, 09:01:38 AM

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We dont need to ask them, they know everything already and i think they're already working on it.

I concur.

It cannot hurt to send a mail to them once in a while so they can feel the excitement building; it will be huge if they accept Bitcoin

Quote from: BetMoose on June 20, 2014, 03:08:22 AM

Quote from: boumalo on June 20, 2014, 02:51:34 AM

Quote from: BetMoose on June 18, 2014, 10:06:07 PM

Come on, Roger Ver said they'd accept it before the end 2014! What's the hold-up! I'm even betting on it!

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Amazon will accept Bitcoin by end of 2014

Options: Yes, without discounts | Yes, with discounts | No

You stand to make a nice win, how much would you win if you won now?

Total Volume of the bet is 0.071 on BM

Yeah it's slowly growing. Generally, the more you put down, the more someone puts down against you. So if you put down 1 BTC I can almost guarantee someone will put down 1 BTC against you within the next week. The earlier you bet the higher the time multiplier so there's incentive to bet early.

Betting on the World Cup is fun at the moment Wink

Maybe This reply is not consistent with the post but oh yes This World Cup is making me really happy...

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Maybe they'd rather developmen their own digital coin.

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Quote from: ShakyhandsBTCer on June 23, 2014, 10:58:39 PM

Quote from: BetMoose on June 20, 2014, 12:42:00 PM

Quote from: Stery on June 20, 2014, 09:12:11 AM

Amazon will never consider btc as they have their own payment services

Bet on it then I dare you.

They would likely be able to increase profits by accepting bitcoin by a greater amount then what their payment service will potentially generate.

He meant make a betmoose bet and put your money where your mouths are ^_^

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Quote from: BetMoose on June 20, 2014, 12:42:00 PM

Quote from: Stery on June 20, 2014, 09:12:11 AM

Amazon will never consider btc as they have their own payment services

Bet on it then I dare you.

They would likely be able to increase profits by accepting bitcoin by a greater amount then what their payment service will potentially generate.

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When Bitcoin gained mass media attention, this subreddit took a nosedive in intelligence..

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I wouldn't be surprised if amazon owned companies start to accept Bitcoin before the shopping site considers it.

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Quote from: Stery on June 20, 2014, 09:12:11 AM

Amazon will never consider btc as they have their own payment services

Even with Amazon's payment service they could still attract additional business from people wanting to buy items on their site with bitcoin.

They could also attract sellers wanting to get paid in bitcoin, although sellers would likely need to have a lengthy waiting period prior to receiving payment via bitcoin.

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