How to Trade in Amazon Gift Cards for Bitcoins – Instantly

For long I have wanted to buy bitcoins but never got a chance until recently.

When I was looking at options to buy Bitcoin, I found a few sites like Cex, Binance & Coinbase where I can use real cash to buy Bitcoin.

Luckily, I had about $119 in my Amazon account (Courtesy of my friend who gifted me an Amazon gift card).

This was when I got to know about this popular online service called Purse, where one can use their Amazon gift card to buy Bitcoin.

Note: Unfortunately, Purse has stopped offering its services in June 2023.

Benefits of Purse:

• Sell your Amazon gift cards for Bitcoin
• Buy products from Amazon using Bitcoin

The Purse is a San Francisco-based company right in silicon valley.

The process is pretty simple as you will be trading in your Amazon gift card money in return of Bitcoin.

In this guide, I will show you how to go about it with actual steps (Pictures) & let’s buy your first Bitcoin using an Amazon gift card.

How to Buy Bitcoins with an Amazon Gift Card at Purse

To get started with this, you need two things:

• A Purse account
• Amazon account (You can use an existing gift card or you can also use any other method to load money into your account).

The Purse is a marketplace that connects Amazon shoppers to users with Amazon gift cards. Here, users with gift cards can liquidate their gift cards at a nominal price. Ex: $80 for a gift card worth $100.  

Moreover, if you are someone who is just starting out & want to buy Bitcoin in a small quantity, using a gift card is an easy way. However, if you wish to buy Bitcoin in a larger amount, you should rather use other methods like real cash to purchase Bitcoin.

Now, let’s move ahead & trade our Amazon gift card for Bitcoins.

• Log in to your Purse account & click on earn bitcoin at the top.

This will take you to a page where you can see many shoppers from Amazon who has listed their wishlist & you can sort it based on a few factors such as Country.

For this guide, let’s select the USA as the country.

Click on the price that you wish to spend & BTC TOTAL will show you how much Bitcoin you would be purchasing. So, I clicked on one offer that is worth $31.86

Click on Accept offer & this would take you to the Amazon site. Once you accept the offer, you have about one hour to complete the offer.

Click on Purchase wishlist & it would take you to the Amazon site. At times after adding order on Amazon, your cart could be Empty or for some reason, if you couldn’t complete the order, you can always cancel the offer.

From here, all you need to do is; complete the order & copy the order ID back to the form shown above.

Once the order is delivered to the shopper & he confirms it, the money will be credited to your account. Don’t worry about fraud here, as money is kept into Escrow.

You can always check the status of your Amazon order over here.

Here is one such order that I’m tracking at this moment:

You will also get an email from Purse regarding your ongoing transaction. You can use the link on the email to see the status of your transaction. Here is an example of my current transaction:

Cool, not I got to wait about one week before receiving the Bitcoin using Purse. If you have Amazon gift card & want to sell it, Purse.io is a pretty neat way. You can use earned Bitcoin to buy a lot of stuff as many online services accept Bitcoin.

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