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How To Use Amazon Gift Cards In Nigeria

Don’t know how to use Amazon Gift Cards In Nigeria? Sit back and relax as we show you what you can do with Amazon Gift Cards and How to Use them.

Amazon Gift Cards are a means of means of payment on the Amazon Website – a big e-commerce website for buying different products. Amazon Gift Cards is a prepaid stored-value money card which can be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within the Amazon store. This means that the Amazon Gift Cards can only be used to purchase goods/products only from Amazon.

Now, There are basically two ways to use Amazon Gift cards in Nigeria. One is to actually use the Gift Card for it’s intended purpose. By this, I mean adding the Gift Card Amount to your Amazon account and using the said balance to shop on the website or you can add the code to the space provided during checkout after you’re done shopping on the website. If you don’t know to go about this then you can take a look at our guide on how to shop on Amazon From Nigeria. We’ve given a detailed breakdown of the process involved in shopping, Shipping, and delivery to Nigeria from Amazon.

Delivery from Amazon to Nigeria isn’t idle as the delivery charges are sometimes more than the price of the product being delivered. I’m saying this from experience. The only way to avoid this is to find an alternative shipping method/company. Some shopping companies will provide you with a US shipping address which you will input while checking out on Amazon. When the item gets to their US address, they pull your items along with others together and ship them down to Nigeria. This way, you all (people who own the items) split the cost of shipping. All these are probably why people opt for the other way to Use Amazon Gift Cards in Nigeria.

The other way to use Amazon Gift Cards in Nigeria is to sell the gift cards to other people. There are a lot of people who buy gifts cards and use it to shop on the Amazon Website as the alternative – Shopping with their Nigerian debit cards – isn’t an option. This is because the rate most bank gives are usually higher compared to the amount other people are will to sell the Amazon Gift Cards.

Such people who deal in the buying and selling of Amazon Gift Cards are also known as exchanges. Once you’ve found an exchanger willing to buy your Amazon Gift Cards, he or she gives you the naira equivalent of the Gift Card’s Worth in Dollars depending on the rate you both agreed on.