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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I'd like to know what they are too.
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They're Amazon's proprietary monopoly money. You use them in place of cash to buy apps on Amazon's AppStore. (Currently you can't use them for anything else.) You get a discount buying the coins so that, for example 500 coins only costs you $4.50 instead of $5. The catch, as with all these company-specific currencies, is the remaining balance is non-refundable and apps usually don't cost an even dollar/cent amount, leaving you with a perpetual balance. Then you either waste it, or buy more coins to try to use it up. Either way benefits Amazon.
However, Amazon has been good about giving them away for free. Initially all Kindle Fire owners were given 500 coins to use for free. Since then there's been deals where you get coins for purchasing a free app, or multiple apps. That's where the
Free Amazon Coins thread comes in, people post about new coin freebies there. Then you save up and turn around and use the free coins on a paid app you've been wanting. Over the past year, if you got in on all the free ones, I believe it's been around 2,000 coins, or $20 worth. (That includes getting the 500 for being a Kindle Fire owner.)
Basically, if you don't purchase them and only go for freebies, it's a different way of getting some free Android Apps from Amazon.