Who can help me make use of an Amazon.com gift certificate?

[pne]

A while ago, I received a US$ 10 Amazon.com gift certificate for participating in a survey. Unfortunately, it's only redeemable at amazon.com, not at any other Amazon website such as amazon.de. $10 just about covers shipping from the States to Germany, so it's only moderately useful for me in its present form.

Would someone be willing to make the certificate more useful for me by purchasing a gift certificate from amazon.de for me worth about $10? I'd send you email certificate I received, so your bottom line would be roughly zero (you spend $10 on the gift certificate for me and save $10 the next time you buy from amazon.com) while my certificate would be more useful to me (since shipping inside Germany is obviously much less than US->Germany). Apparently, $10 is about €8 right now, so a €7.50 or €8 gift certificate would be appreciated.

You'd have to have a credit card; an Amazon customer account would obviously be useful if you intend to redeem the certificate later, and will make purchasing one easier as well (otherwise you'll be asked to create one). AFAIK Amazon accounts are valid on all Amazon websites so if you're "postmaster@example.com" with password "s33kr1t" on amazon.com, that login will get you into amazon.de as well. Reading German is a plus but I'll walk you through the pages if you can't (by AIM, for example).

Any takers?

Oh, the amazon.com gift certificate expires in May 2006 IIRC.

Comments

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Having ordered from both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk (it's cheaper to buy Spanish books there than pay import costs to the US, the last book I bought from there was $28 on Amazon.com but £7 plus £4 shipping, about $18, on Amazon.co.uk), I can tell you that no, you don't use the same username and password at both of those. Just FYI; don't know about Amazon.de.

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

I think the system has recently changed -- I use the same username and password at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp.

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

I use a different username and password at amazon.de and amazon.com. But that may be because I started using both of them a long time ago; perhaps people who set up their accounts more recently have shared account information between sites?

[pne.livejournal.com]

I've been using both .com and .de for quite a while - .com at least since 1998 since I remember ordering about $500 worth of books one fine summer, and that was when I was still single so it must have been before 1999.

My username is an email address - do you have different email addresses at different sites, too, or just the same email address with different passwords? If the former, I suppose you could just try using, say, the .com address/password combo at the .de site and see what happens.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Same here (well, with s/Amazon.co.jp/Amazon.fr/).

I used the same email address for all sites but didn't find out that it's the same account until I changed my password on all of them and found that after changing it in one place, it was changed in the others, too.