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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I bought some popcorn for my nephew for Christmas, and Amazon surprised me with 300 free Amazon Coins because of it.
The email says that they are to be spent at the Amazon Appstore.
Does this mean that I need to have a smartphone? Can I buy apps at the appstore which will work on my desktop computer?
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Won't work on the Kindle. The coins are used to buy Android apps from Amazon's appstore. Your 300 coins have a value of $3.
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Coins . . . I thought that Amazon must have done away with them b/c I haven't seen anything about them lately on their website.
So 300 coins = just $3? 300 sounds like a lot. Reminds me of the "points" that I get on one of my credit cards. I accumulate, say, 10,000 of them and I think, "wow, I've got a lot of points! I can really do something with these!" Only to check the catalog of what I can buy with points and find out that I can buy only a pair of (wooden) chopsticks or something.
It's obvious why Amazon and MasterCard and other companies use such high numbers. If Amazon said that you had 3 coins, you wouldn't think that they would be as valuable as 300.
I'm not complaining (well, maybe about the stupid credit card points), just making an observation and sharing the humor that I see in it.