I think there was an amazon service for this. Pay sats for someone to order for your with their amazon account w/ fiat
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I think if you limit it to close connections there won’t be any liquidity. Will be very hard to ever find someone on the other end to fulfill your order. Perhaps you find one or two friends willing to do it but my guess would be it doesn’t scale well.
There are definitely services that do this but they are full of fraud. Most of the sellers willing to take a 10%+ haircut on their Amazon to BTC conversions were using stolen money (phone tech support gift card scams etc).
Yeah Purse (https://purse.io/) by some bcashers but now that I check they pivoted to a "blockchain utility newsletter" lmao
In any case I want something more general and limited to my close trusted people
I think it’s a REALLY challenging business model. Even more if you’re doing it as a VC funded public facing business.
Paxful does a lot of this type of thing too and is known as the go-to spot to swap stolen giftcards.