Thanks for @travellife for recommended this wonderful platform (Purse.io)[https://purse.io/shop].
Discount? Aren't Malaysian love discount?
This is like a super good news for those who like to do shopping in Amazon.
What is Purse.io?
In short, Purse.io is a platform allows us to use to purchase products listed in Amazon using only bitcoin or bitcoin cash.
On top of that, we can enjoy at least 15% off from the listing price. It gets me wonder, does Purse.io really offers us the discount, so I do a comparison with Amazon.
I came across this book: Blockchain Revolution. It is priced at $19.38 in the listing.
Just merely 5% off from Amazon price $20.40 as shown.
Once you click proceed to checkout in the shopping cart, you will notice something interest.
You can actually choose your own discount!
Currently, I can choose the max discount of 15% for my first purchase!
The final price will be $17.81.
However, do take note that when you increase the discount, the ESTIMATED DELIVERY TIME will increase too.
Regarding the delivery fees, it is standard as how Amazon is charging.
But wait, what's the price that Amazon is selling? Is the same $20.40?
I search for the exact same book in Amazon.
To my surprise, Amazon is selling at much cheaper price!? $15.18?
No more 15% off from Amazon d? So sad, T.T
Looking closer, I notice we have the choice of choosing Paperback or Hardcover and Hardcover is priced at $20.40.
So yea, Purse.io still really provides us the 15% off. Phew~
To sum up,
Amazon has been a great marketplace for us to source some quality items and now we can get it addition discount on top of the great price Amazon is offering. However, Amazon offers multiple types of books ie the paperback, hardcover or used book at lower rates.
@jeromelim so what's in your opinion i should take a look at purse.io or not?
Hi @atulpatel, my view is why not? There are several factors you need to think of though since purse.io accepts BTC/BCH payment. Do you prefer this kind of method?
In other way, we can think of to buy BTC/BCH through local exchange then immediately do purchase in purse.io. These way will bring a little inconvenience and there are some fees occur during buying the cryptocurrency.
So, I feel unless we are buying in larger value (you save much more) and the fees of buy/transfer BTC/BCH is normally fixed. To make the inconvenient more worthful.
I think it would be good to open up both tabs and check the prices side by side. For the products that I checked so far, the prices on purse.io were cheaper. However, it may not be so for certain cases. Please share if you find the differences.
On purse.io try searching for the book name followed by the work "paperback" or "Kindle" to see what you get. Of course not ideal but it may be a work around.
Thanks for tips however it seems Purse.io has been down since the morning, unable to access it to search on other keywords.