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!
@cryptoctopus,
Actually this is a very useful thing in this X'mas time! With this app we can direct purchase via crypto! This is amazing and a great Christmas gift for all crypto holders as well! You made a nice review about it!
Marry X'mas friend!
Cheers~
this is great, and i could have buy myself something if i hadn't sent my SBD to the stupid poloniex :( - your Schiller Elite V Compensating Euphonium looks great. I'd really like to hear your music sometime. Please record the music and share with us here on steemit sometime :) have a very happy Christmas :)
I will! Maybe a Christmas carol?
I'd love that :D :D
Well, I guess a lot of people got lucky this Christmas! :D
OMG! What a sweet experience! People still get this lucky in our world? Dear Lord, let my turn come soon. Purse.io is certainly my next site of adventure. Lol!
Thanks for sharing, boss
My pleasure diana01!
Mine too, boss.
Thank u.
Wow, I had no idea what a euphonium is before I saw the image :)
Ah, the power and magic an beauty of crypto!
You probably could have bought it from your SBD's as well, which are mushrooming 10x more than Bitcoin a the moment :)
It's a pity that most of these service only sell vouchers for Amazon.com - so for us in Europe it's a little more difficult. On the other hand, as a "hardcore hodler that would never ever touch their crypto" it doesn't concern me too much at the moment :)
they have a service attached to it called "usendhome". They give you a mail address to the US and they forward it to you internationally for a few bucks.
Oh, OK - good to know, thank you!
Great, now I can order some books and souvenirs on Amazon!
Spending crypto's for gifts... Yeah, this sounds like total madness in the ears of a hodler. Why not convert it back to fiat when you're at it. Pfft, crazy I tell ya!
although i've never used purse.io i think it's a great idea and love the fact that others get it for you and forward it on, think it could really help people too for sending to amazon lockers but i've not looked into that yet.
If you posted this article someday before then i wouldent spent my sbd. i didn't know that i could buy something from amazon with sbd or any crypto. i am a musician too.then i would buy a ukulele for chrismas i love the way it's sound. please enlightened us with this kind of post. where we can use our crypto currency and give us some more info about purse.io.thank you and merry chrismas @cryptoctopus
I will, I will continue to chronicle how purse.io works for me. Too bad I was too late. I didn't want to make a review without receiving my first order.
take ur time but please let us know.
Talking of luck, it hits me now that it is of two types: blind-luck and sense-luck (lol).
Blindluck = when you are just minding your other businesses only to be swept off your feet by a sudden huge surprise from nowhere.
Sense-luck(commonsense-luck) = when you have hopes of an event occuring not minding how slim the chance might actually be... and it eventually happens but far beyond your expection.
There's good sense there in converting your steem to btc and having them in purse.io. You must have been studying the btc chart but never expected the rise would be that monumental... COMMONSENSE-LUCK!
Hahaha!
Happy for you sir, even as i pray to jam one also.
This is a very nice Christmas gift.
I hope that your holiday will be cheerful and bright!
I think a lot more of these sites are going to be popping up, but I've been looking at purse.io for a while now and it seems pretty legit... I'm just having a hard time spending any crypto...
thanks a lot to informative post.I want to buy many gift by using my steeim dollars.
I can't wait to experience this year's Christmas celebration, With steemit this year things have been so easy for me and at the end The sbd made us all smile.
I presume great things this season, I can't believe my eyes the way the sbd has been up for some days, giving so many protection opportunity to sell and earn big for this upcoming Christmas celebration,Steemit is home.
I read too much bad review of this site, personally i would never trust also if i read some good news.
I did too but then tried it out for myself. The legit bad review (because sometimes there are competitors doing bad review attacks) are mostly when there was returns. I believe they've work on it a lot to improve the system.
Or you can simply buy gold or silver via bit glid, they accept many currencies
http://www.bitgild.com/
thanks for this great site
With the increase of crypto lately I wont be spending now. but I am giving it as a gift.
Understandable choice
wow this is really cool. Christmas is expensive...this helps.
I had actually planned on ordering some Christmas present using crypto this year, but the extremely high fees on transactions kept me from doing it. I don't want to pay a $15+ fee for buying a $30 items, and fortunately I'm not going to be buying any expensive gifts this year. I think I'm better off by selling my BTC and buying gifts with fiat, so I don't have to pay a fee for each transactions.
However, I will keep the purse.io website in mind for the future, and hopefully the transaction fees will be a bit lower.
This euphonium looks nice, can you play it?
Yes. I might be a little rusty but I can't wait to play and make a review on it on steemit
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!
I think I will give this a try.
What might be causing the current increase in most of the crypto currencies recently especially the SBD o don't understand anybody please?
Pretty expensive I must say,But I am sure it is worth the price.
i saw this post and i follow your post
Wow Great 😊
Dash awesome <3 hehehehhe
happy cristmas
I've been shopping around, trying to figure the whole bitcoin thing out. Thank you for the insight!
Merry Christmas@cryptoctopus
@cryptoctopus - Sir it's a pretty cool news... Never knew before it can be use with Amazon..... Merry X'mas Sir...
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'Save 15% On Your Amazon Order with Bitcoin'
save 15% & pay directly via crypto. Nice & very valuable thing in this christmas time. impressive post with useful news update @cryptoctopus
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Had always stayed clear of amazon because of rates and all. But I think its high time I paid them a profitable visit 😁.
Wow that is so nice 😉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Even after exiting from the blog, this lines still rang in my head. Wish i could be a diehard hodler.
But you are right, the celebration is sure going to take some chips off our savings. Hmmm! Wish i had another alternative to settle the few expenses to be made. This surge in sbd price just make it so precious to be tampered with anyhow.
Thanks I consider your effort a gift to people here and also paved way for others extend unique offer in special occasions.
My question is, how can I sell my prpducts on more crypto-friendly market places? Very new entrepreneur who is looking for new sales channels & platforms.
Any suggestions?