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.