Hey Steemit!
Who needs Black Friday when you can get discounts on Amazon any day any time being the one who actually chooses the discount? Sounds pretty sweet doesn't it? Well, the good news is it is real with Purse.
It has been around for a while now and perhaps some of you guys are already familiar with this service, if not, keep reading, friend :).
Purse is an awesome way to shop around without having to exchange your bitcoin into your country's official currency. A while back I already made a post sharing an easy way to shop at nearly any store or business in the US with Bitcoin, check it out.
Purse.io provides a few different services, you can either buy items off of Purse right way and get a 5% discount, choose your discount and wait a few days until your order is filled or you can start making Bitcoin by selling something or by fulfilling shoppers' Amazon orders. Right now though, I would like to focus on choosing your own discount feature on Purse.
To start using it you have to go to Purse.io and make an account. Signing up is easy, and it even lets you use your existing accounts to make it faster.
Once you're done with this step, you should go to Amazon and add whatever it is you're willing to buy or rather get a discount for in your public Wishlist.
Copy the address of your Wishlist and paste it into the search bar on Purse. By the way, you also get $5 in BTC for referring people to Purse.
Alright, now that the service recognized your item, you are asked to set the desired discount. As a first time user you're only allowed to set a 15% off discount, but once you get that first order out of the way you will be able to do more. Usually 25%-30% discounts do well, you can of course set yours to 40% or higher, but it is unlikely anyone would be willing to spend that much more in order to get your Bitcoin. Speaking of which, looks like I missed one of the most important things about Purse is explaining how it works.
Purse provides an escrow service. In exchange for your Bitcoin people are willing to pay extra buying things you want off of Amazon, that way they get ahold of crypto and you pay less for something you want to buy.
Escrow is a contractual arrangement in which a third party receives and disburses money or documents for the primary transacting parties, with the disbursement dependent on conditions agreed to by the transacting parties.
Alright, you're happy with the discount and have a high success rate, time to place the order.
At this step you are asked to make a Bitcoin transaction to Purse, which you can revert until someone buys your Wishlist in case you change your mind and you don't that thing anymore. However once someone buys your order, the Bitcoin you sent will be held in escrow and once the delivery is confirmed it will be released to the person who bought your order.
You can also check the status of your order on Purse.io and track the shipment when this information becomes available.
Happy shopping on Purse.io!
Great idea! I think everyone is now so eager to have bitcoins that it is willing to accept a lot! It's very tempting!
Another way to save money!
Its good news that we can shop now directly with Bitcoin... 15 % Discount is enough to save a lot of Bitcoin on shopping with Amazon...
Yeah, but you can get a higher discount too. It's convenient if you are not saving your bitcoin up!
Thanks for sharing @kotturinn. I will check it out.
Awesome!
its good news thats purse.io helps to shopping through amazone and you made it brilliantly.
Happy to know you found it helpful :)
That does sounds great and i do hope the news of Amazon directly accepting bitcoin comes true.
That might be a blast for BTC
I hope so too, I think they will eventually, if not there are still ways around haha
That is of course ;)
Daaaang @matt-a is hookin it up as is @ats-david its like they are in a gang! steem gang! steem gang!
What can I say, they are very good curators :)
The great online shopping mall offers of discount is a good news! Bitcoin will more boots up with this facility and direct acceptance!
For sure! I can't wait! As far as I remember you can already buy stuff with bitcoin on overstock.
wow time to save some bucks all thanks to you : )
Thanks to purse!!!
:D
Good Post.
It ain't bad.
Good Post reward! Youre makin more than me! WIsh I made this much! good job! Youll be makin $100 posts on the daily very soon!
Hopefully! Thank you, @ackza! I hope your next post makes even more!