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Amazon gift cards are marketplace specific. You can't buy a gift card in the UK and use it in the US.
by EE84M3i 5y ago
Amazon gift cards are marketplace specific. You can't buy a gift card in the UK and use it in the US.
- paxys 5y agoThat's a restriction placed by Amazon itself. They could remove it tomorrow if they wanted to, and doing so would be a lot easier than creating their own currency.
- atatatat 5y agoNot so fast. If they allow that with USD et al, they're more liable in more "currently on the books" ways than if they started letting people send Ama-coin across the globe.
- rchaud 5y agoGift card balances are liabilities on the balance sheet of each country or regional office in which that card is valid. From a software standpoint it probably isn't much more than a flick of a switch. From a financial reconcialiation point of view however....