Do you still use fiat to buy things on Amazon.com?

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Quote from: Elwar on February 19, 2016, 07:48:05 AM

Going through this thread I have to point out that if Amazon started accepting Bitcoin, the price would not shoot up.

Look at the amount of people who have bitcoins, could save 20% by spending bitcoins on Amazon and yet do not spend their bitcoins on Amazon.

What in the world would make you think that Amazon accepting bitcoins at the same price would make the price go up?

Even if Amazon started accepting bitcoins, they would immediately exchange them to fiat (which would drive the price down).

At least with purse.io people are not automatically converting them to fiat.

because amazon have one thing better than purse.io and i believe it's the main reaosn why only few are using purse.io

it's the return policy and the faster delivery, with purse.io i know you can return but it is not straightforward like with amazon, i'm sure some trouble may arise

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Going through this thread I have to point out that if Amazon started accepting Bitcoin, the price would not shoot up.

Look at the amount of people who have bitcoins, could save 20% by spending bitcoins on Amazon and yet do not spend their bitcoins on Amazon.

What in the world would make you think that Amazon accepting bitcoins at the same price would make the price go up?

Even if Amazon started accepting bitcoins, they would immediately exchange them to fiat (which would drive the price down).

At least with purse.io people are not automatically converting them to fiat.

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Purse.io is excellent. That being said, it is far from perfect. Purse.io is a P2P platform which allows users to directly exchange their gift card/credit card. Due to this, carding fraud is highly possible. Even with Purse instant, it is still not available in my country and have an attractive enough discount.

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Quote from: Palinanv on February 19, 2016, 06:26:54 AM

Of course I do because that's what I have a lot of. I don't have anything else, you know.

If you want buy with bitcoin, Just go with purse.io site and if you have coinbase account activate by that. select the product which you wqnt to buy then add that in wishlist. copy and paste that url in purse.io by that you can receive 15% discount in every purchase dude.

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I use Amazon gift cards from Gyft as I can buy up to $2000 at a time and load them into my Amazon account. For me purse.io is a little too complicated to use the last time I looked at it. I guess if I were looking for discounts I would be using it more.

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Quote from: KiwiParty on February 19, 2016, 06:34:11 AM

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Quote from: dhimasnk on January 22, 2016, 01:54:51 AM

I have never bought anything on Amazon

I had some worst experiences with Amazon, So I avoid to buy anything from Amazon, but if I have to buy anything online I would prefer to buy using fiat or credit card as I want to keep my bitcoins safe for future, so if the value of bitcoin is higher in the future I can make good profits out of it, So I am holding my bitcoins for future and I prefer shopping with fiat or credit cards.

Amazon is amazing. They offer something which is called online business.
What I get from there, i get cheaper, fast, the offer more, and the service is about 90% of the time very reliable and good.
I dont want to mis them.
Also their cloud & it services, like twitch, are phenomenal.
Only would they accept BTC, but it would make Amazon to one of the most rich BTC owners.

If that time comes that Amazon is already accepting Bitcoins. That will be the end of it. Bitcoin value will shoot up then!

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Quote from: nerFohanzo on January 22, 2016, 07:25:58 AM

Quote from: dhimasnk on January 22, 2016, 01:54:51 AM

I have never bought anything on Amazon

I had some worst experiences with Amazon, So I avoid to buy anything from Amazon, but if I have to buy anything online I would prefer to buy using fiat or credit card as I want to keep my bitcoins safe for future, so if the value of bitcoin is higher in the future I can make good profits out of it, So I am holding my bitcoins for future and I prefer shopping with fiat or credit cards.

Amazon is amazing. They offer something which is called online business.
What I get from there, i get cheaper, fast, the offer more, and the service is about 90% of the time very reliable and good.
I dont want to mis them.
Also their cloud & it services, like twitch, are phenomenal.
Only would they accept BTC, but it would make Amazon to one of the most rich BTC owners.

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Of course I do because that's what I have a lot of. I don't have anything else, you know.

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Quote from: dhimasnk on January 22, 2016, 01:54:51 AM

I have never bought anything on Amazon

I had some worst experiences with Amazon, So I avoid to buy anything from Amazon, but if I have to buy anything online I would prefer to buy using fiat or credit card as I want to keep my bitcoins safe for future, so if the value of bitcoin is higher in the future I can make good profits out of it, So I am holding my bitcoins for future and I prefer shopping with fiat or credit cards.

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I have never bought anything on Amazon

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Quote from: Amph on January 19, 2016, 08:07:09 AM

Quote from: owm123 on January 19, 2016, 07:54:35 AM

I dont spend bitcoins. And the 20% discount on Amazon is nothing capared to percentage bitcoin can increase in near future. So I spend fiat, and hold bitcoin.

ehm you know that you can spend those fiat in bitcoin, instead of spending them in "fiat" right? this regardless of the future value of bitcoin

but the advantage is that by spending those fiat in bitcoin, now(if you need something to buy obvious) you will get a discount, instead with fiat you will get nothing...

Yeah, I will not go for fiat in this case, on one hand is on discount and on the other hand with fiat is full payment. Fiat and bitcoins are easily exchangeable then not it beneficial to buy the products with bitcoins and bitcoins with the fiats you have. It is not hard to exchange your fiat to bitcoin.

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Prime credit card with 5% off is good enough for me

Tried using purse.io once never got my order filled for whatever reason

I prefer the certainty of a direct purchase until Amazon decides to take bitcoin directly

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Yes I still do use my Debit card to purchase from Amazon. It's cause the Local Amazon isn't supported by Purse.io inorder for me to purchase using Bitcoins. I'd love to see purse globalize its services or probably a service like Brawker (they've shutdown) would be extremely useful.

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Yep, because I dont know that I can buy things on amazon with bitcoins

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I personally do. My bitcoin are used elsewhere / saved.

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Since Purse.io came on the scene I use it for all my Amazon purchases, never had a problem or delay, free Prime shipping so two day delivery is standard. Caveat: I only use Purse Instant and show how I use it at this article.

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Quote from: Ubertroco on January 19, 2016, 08:35:42 AM

You just need to buy BTC before buying the product. Send BTC with 20% discount and you are done. Didnt spend any BTC that you have on wallet and still got the disccount.

Discount is just like magic. They say the actual and the discounted. But what you pay is the market price in which the profit of particular product is included. Don't go behind discounts.

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Quote from: Elwar on November 21, 2015, 05:55:02 PM

I'm curious if people who actually know about Purse.io still actually pay full price for things on Amazon when you could be getting your purchase at a 20% discount.

I'd like to know your reasons why. For my friends and family I understand because they're scared of this "bitcoin" thing, but for those who use Bitcoin, why would you not?

If you don't buy things on Amazon...not really asking you anything here.

I guess people dont like having to pay any fees to get bitcoin, i dont know what the best current options are. Even if you dont pay a fee you pay with time. If people have fiat and they see a product the quickest way is just to buy it with fiat.

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