There has been
some controversy previously on whether or not you can use
Amazon Gift Cards to purchase Kindle e-books from Amazon.
Thankfully, MobileReader Cush contacted Amazon and received the following positive reply:
Quote:
Hello from Amazon.com.
Using an Amazon Gift Card to buy content from the Kindle store is easy. Simply redeem the Gift Card to your Amazon.com account before you make a purchase. When you click the "Buy with 1-Click" button, any available Gift Card balance on your account will automatically be applied to the purchase before your credit or debit card is charged.
Content from the Amazon Kindle store is only available to customers with a credit or debit card issued by a U.S bank with a U.S. billing address listed as the default 1-Click payment method. To successfully complete your purchase, you must have a valid payment method listed even if you intend to pay for your entire purchase with a Gift Card.
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Note the second paragraph with Amazon explicitely stating that a US credit card is still required to complete the purchase. But at the same time,
this place (thanks TadW!) has a step-by-step instruction how folks without US affiliation can still use Amazon Gift Cards to purchase e-books from Amazon.
So what's going on? Does it work for you? And do you have other tricks up your sleeve to get the most out of your Kindle reader, without living in the US?