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How to convert Amazon.com gift card balance to India /Indian rupee with Purse.io and WazirX.com?

June 28, 2019 by Edgardo Lamadrid Leave a Comment

How to convert Amazon US gift card to India?

For online workers and freelancers in India, there are times that they receive payments in the form of Amazon.com gift card.

For instance as Amazon Mechanical Turk worker from India, I have been receiving my payment in the form of Amazon gift card since 2016.

Amazon earnings
Fig. 1

The same goes for many other online jobs such as writing a review for Capterra.

Amazon giftcard
Fig. 2

The option of using the Amazon.com gift card to order products to India involves high import and shipping fee.

Amazon order
Fig. 3: For the above product, ended up paying twice the actual price because of shipping and import fee.

The other option of converting Amazon.com gift card balance to Indian rupee with Purse.io and WazirX.com is not instant or automated and involves cost as well as we will see later in this article. There are a number of steps you need to perform manually through Amazon.com, Purse.io, and finally WazirX.com platform.


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Convert Amazon.com gift card balance into Bitcoin

After signing up with Purse.io, click Earn.

Earn bitcoin with Purse
Fig. 4: This article is written from the perspective of those who wish to earn Bitcoin in exchange of existing Amazon.com gift card balance. On the other side are those who shop products paying through BTC which is not the scope of this article although without them no transaction can be completed.

“Rate” in the second column (Fig. 4 above) after Country reads % above market rate and perhaps needs an explanation. Asked Purse.io customer care over their chat button and received the following reply over the email:

Email of Purse
Fig. 5
Purse order
Fig. 6

It is perhaps not straight forward to comprehend what the “Effective Rate” in the above third column means. What you can do is if the Rate shows say 25%, buyer will be getting a product priced 100$ at 75$ if he or she buys from you. In other words, you in the process of Earning Crypto will let the buyer in the Amazon.com buy 75$ goods by paying 100$ when dollar converted to Bitcoin at the prevailing exchange rate.

Buyer gets 100$ product at 75$.

Or for 75$, you are paying 25$ extra.

Therefore for 100$, you are paying 25/75 x 100 = 33.33$ extra.

I believe Purse.io should also include a column that shows the cost from the perspective of the one in the process of Earning Crypto as well explicitly. Maybe for marketing reason, they are not doing this.

Purse conversion

Fig. 7: You need to perform a number of manual tasks like adding a tracking code of the product ordered by you for the buyer through Purse.io.Once you place an order on behalf of a customer through Purse.io on Amazon.com, your Bitcoin will be released only after the buyer confirms that he or she has received the shipment. So, the process may take 3 to 10 days or more.

If the Amazon.com order that you placed through Purse.io indeed ships without hiccups like address not found, you will receive an email from Purse.io confirming the ordered product delivered and bitcoin released.

Amazon order

Purse email

Fig. 8

Purse transaction summary
Fig. 9: Once you have the Bitcoin balance showing under purse.io wallet balance, the next step is transferring this balance to wazirX. The earned Bitcoin in purse.io is transferred to wazirX for which purse.io charges 0.0002 fee.
Withdraw funds from Purse
Fig. 10
Purse withdrawal
Fig. 11

Fig. 12: Click on Deposit.

Fig. 13: Copy the address which will be pasted to Purse.io.

Fig. 14: For security reasons, you receive the Withdrawal Confirmation on your Purse.io registered emailid.

Fig. 15


Wazirx Affiliate Program - How to Convert Amazon US Gift Card to Indian Rupee
Convert Bitcoin balance into Indian Rupee through P2P

How to convert Amazon US gift card to India?


BTC Deposit
Fig. 16

The next step in WazirX is to sell BTC (Bitcoin) balance in the marketplace to receive payment in USDT.

BTC Selling
Fig. 17

Then converting USDT to INR through P2P.

Wazirx P2P Payment Options

Wazirx Confirming of Receipt
Fig. 18

For 25$ item order placed on behalf of a buyer, I received 1200 INR to my bank account. With 1$ = 69.46 at the time of writing, this amounts to 1736.38. So, received 69.10% or ended up paying 30.90% as cost for converting the gift card to cash. The choice if you wish to get involved in the process of converting Amazon.com gift card to cash by discounting (in this case 30.9%) or order a product for yourself on amazon.com is yours. Import fees and shipping vary across products and you need to check item by item on Amazon.com.

Amazon transaction
Fig. 19: For the above item worth $6.49, ended up paying $21.86 or well above three times the actual price. The same product in amazon.in available @419 INR.  So with 1$ = 69.48 INR (at the time of writing), I paid 1518.78 INR. Discounted at 30.10%, I could have received 1049.47 in cash, making me eligible to buy 2 files in India 419×2=838 and still retain 211.47 INR in cash (1049.47-836). For the product in Fig. 3 (steam iron), ended up twice the actual price.

Though P2P process in WazirX while converting USDT to INR depends on another individual or peer coming and transacting, WazirX has the liquidity making it possible to convert your Bitcoin to USDT and then USDT to INR within two hours or so by my experience of four transactions till now.

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