How to Spend Crypto To Buy Christmas Gifts? - My Purse.io Review
It's Advent!
It is the time of the year when we anticipate the hope ahead of us, spend time with family and buy gifts for the people we love.
Bitcoin, Steem and other crypto has been going up and unless you are a hardcore hodler that would never ever touch their crypto, you are probably wondering how you can spend a small amount of them for your Christmas shopping.
I'll tell you what I did and the story behind how I was able to buy myself a really nice Schiller Elite V Compensating Euphonium for "free" by being lucky :-)
How I Spent Crypto for my Christmas Shopping
Almost a week ago, I went over to PURSE.IO, deposited some bitcoin and started playing around with it.
Basically, Purse.io allow us to search for anything on amazon and buy the items with bitcoin at a discount.
I bough the first gift exchange item that was on my list and bam! 3 days later, I received a notice that it has been delivered! But wait, there's more!
PURSE.IO has 2 options:
1. Name Your Discount
Set a 10-33% discount on your Amazon Wish List. We will match you with people with extra Amazon gift cards (Earners) to purchase your Amazon orders in exchange for your Bitcoin. (learn more about it here)
2. Buy Now
Shop for any item by Amazon and save 5%; or purchase goods from our Purse Merchants on Purse using Bitcoin on checkout.
How I Got Myself a "Free" Euphonium
Look at this beauty!
Wondering how I got this $1700 USD beauty "for free"? Well, to be honest, I just go lucky. I had a power down and transfered some steem into BTC 3 days ago. I had those bitcoin hosted in my purse.io wallet.
What happened is that the price of BTC went from around ~$11K to $18K. Making the BTC in my wallet mushroom in value. I bought my euphonium at the top and what I had left over was almost equivalent of the value of steem that I deposited! SWEET!!! I felt guilty to splurge on an expensive item like that but now I'm happy I did!
Conclusion
I had a great experience with purse.io. I know I will be using this service a lot in the future.
This is why I decided to become and affiliate of their services. So in full disclosure, all the links to purse.io in this post are affiliate links. If you click on the links you and I will both receive 5 USD in BTC after transacting $100 or more. You can learn more about their affiliate program on their website.
Wooow, this is wonderful.
But i was wondering do they get to deliver to anywhere in the world?
I am definitely going to explore on the website after this comment because this christmas is definitely going to be a CryptoXmas for me..
I cant wait to shop on the site and have my goods delivered to me in nigeria.
Thanks so much for sharing this amazing opportunity.
Yes but for international delivery they have a partner service called "usendhome" which creates for you a delivery address in the US. From there you can verify your order with photos, consolidate your purchase in a single box and get it shipped. Lots of savings there.
Woooow, this seems amazing even when i am yet to try it.
Thanks so much for this eye opener.
I think they should since it is linked with Amazon.
Haha, sweet purchase! I know many people that use purse.io just cause of the awesome discount, hope the transaction fees aren't too disastrous lately though!
I hope so too. Doesn't look to bad right now to be honest.
The discount is only on Amazon orders or they offer discounts with other vendors too?
I think you can order from Amazon Vendors (individuals) but with how large amazon is, I don't think they need to look for anyone else at this point.
very cool to know you can use it on amazon!! Merry Cryptomas :D
also you can buy now in booking.com trip for christmas and travel to any country in the world :)
Expedia too right?
ye expedia i think too, only problem if fee increase of transaction to 100-200$ nobody will use bitcoin to buy some cheap things:) and if bitcoin will cost a lot , the more will cost transaction
good point
Joining the Heron brass band?
I believe I do :-)
Awesome post regarding the latest use of crypto-currencies. There are still so many people claiming Bitcoin as a scam and a bubble. Well, not anymore, with purse.io, let's all shop with our cryptos. Merry christmas everyone!
I cant wait to shop on the site and have my goods delivered to me in nigeria.
Thanks so much for sharing this amazing opportunity.
you will have to set a "usendhome" account to receive stuff in nigeria I believe. Cheers!
Sick euphonium! Are you going to upload a celebratory Xmas performance video to Steemit?
maybe! Its Christmas time so sometimes it takes a little longer to get to Canada. Let's cross fingers!
that sounds like a very nice service. Thanks for the review!