Buy Amazon gift cards to save costs

Do you know that it is actually more expensive to use your Nigerian bank issued debit/credit cards for shopping on Amazon than using their gift cards?

Buy a gift card from Amazon

Shopping online with your credit card at Amazon.com carries a transaction fee of about $2 which I would consider as significant more especially if you were the kind of person that shops a lot.

I just recently looked at the history or my orders in my Amazon account and found out that I've made about 18 orders on this online store. Now that means I would have paid about 18*2 = $36 to my bank just for using my credit card. Now if it were the gift card that I used, it would have saved me that money. If you bought a lot of stuff online with your Nigerian Visa or Mastercard, there is a transaction cost on it that goes as high as $2 each and if you bought 10 different items or paid for several services online, you would be charged about $20 just for transaction fees alone!

Well the good news is that you can simply avoid having to pay those transaction fees on Amazon by just buying an Amazon gift card. Buying and Amazon gift card and then using it for doing your shopping at Amazon would save you a lot of costs as you would no longer be charged a transaction fee no need to pay a lot of other hidden fees just for using your credit card alone.

Benefits of Using Amazon's gift card
- Saving on transaction cost
- No monthly fees
- Allows you to send electronic cash gifts to others or yourself
- Replaces the need for using credit cards on the Amazon store
- It never expires
- Gives you discount on certain deals

How to buy an Amazon gift card
- Go to the Amazon gift card store
- Select a shipping method. Use digital since you'd want to get it by email
- Select a design
- Enter other details like the value, email address and so on.
- Schedule a delivery date or just deliver it immediately
- Proceed to checkout
- Sign into your account if you are already registered
- Enter your billing details
- Place your order
- Get confirmation of your order

Buy a gift card today from Amazon

Your credit/debit card will get charged afterwards while Amazon will send your a gift card you can then use for shopping online at Amazon's network of stores.

I just bought mine and immediately receive an sms notification from my card provider in Nigeria. So now I can shop on Amazon without having to pay any extra transaction fee or worrying about expiry dates. Besides I get to know how much balance I really have in my e-wallet.