Quote from: Kluge on September 15, 2014, 12:27:32 AM

Quote from: wasserman99 on September 15, 2014, 12:19:40 AM

Quote from: Kluge on September 15, 2014, 12:06:57 AM

@OP - best story is to say you're using affiliate earnings whether you're legit or not. That's easy to prove if you actually do it, though, and so the buyer-preferred method. Proving you bought with a non-stolen credit card is more difficult since it's difficult to verify who you are unless you're willing to do something crazy like provide a trusted member a credit report emailed by a trusted reporting corporation... but then it'd still be difficult to determine whether or not you've committed full identity theft. It can't truly be proven you haven't hijacked websites for the affiliate earnings, but at least you'd need access to the sites' credentials for a significant amount of time without the original owner taking the account back, so it gives a feeling of security.

Nothing necessarily wrong with you, of course... just a really skeptical community. We've had problems in the past... Wink

AFAIK, though, Amazon eats the loss for anyone who bought stolen gift codes - they don't chase Johns down and take away their credits once applied (or at least, I've never heard of that). -So fwiw.

According this this thread, amazon will reverse an applied gift card credit that is purchased fraudulently. The TL;DR version is that the OP of the thread bought a bunch of amazon gift cards on purse then sold them on ebay. Then the balances were changed to $0.00 by amazon and the balances applied were reversed. This may have been an exception to the rule as it appears to have involved a large amount or it is possible the OP is full of shit.

Good to know. Guess it's best to spend it quickly. Undecided

I had a great experience when bought house we're in -- got a nice discount on Amazon GCs for BTC in early days, furnished kitchen and took advantage of Prime still applying to large appliances - but the guy was well-known and trusted, if only in freenode rooms. Haven't heard from him in years.

Probably serving 5 for identity theft and credit card fraud