Sell Amazon Gift Cards UK for PayPal Cash — 89% of Face Value
Amazon vouchers are the most commonly gifted card in Britain and one of the best paying to sell. Here is what a UK Amazon card is worth, and how to get the money into PayPal in pounds.
Amazon is the card Britain gives when it does not know what to give. It is also, conveniently, one of the best-paying cards to sell: 89% of face value, behind only Steam and Razer Gold at 90%.
A £100 Amazon voucher is worth £89 in cash, paid to PayPal in pounds.
Why Amazon holds its value
Most retail gift cards sell badly. A card for one chain, redeemable on one narrow range of products, has very few potential buyers, and the rate reflects that — 74% is typical, and some fall further.
Amazon is the exception, for the obvious reason: Amazon sells everything. A voucher is not a claim on one shop's stock, it is close to being general-purpose money for anything you might buy online. Demand is enormous and constant, so the resale market pays nearly as much for an Amazon balance as for gaming credit.
The practical takeaway: if you have both an Amazon voucher and a card for a specific high-street chain, the Amazon one is worth far more than the difference in face value might suggest.
What you get
| Amazon voucher | You receive |
|---|---|
| £20 | £17.80 |
| £50 | £44.50 |
| £100 | £89 |
| £250 | £222.50 |
| £500 | £445 |
There is no upper limit, and the rate does not change with size. Check any amount in the calculator.
Pounds in, pounds out
A UK Amazon voucher pays into a sterling balance, and a PayPal withdrawal sends you sterling. There is no conversion step, and therefore no conversion spread quietly taken along the way.
That is worth checking wherever you sell. A US-oriented exchange will often convert a sterling card to dollars behind the scenes at a rate a little worse than the real one. On a £500 voucher a 2% spread is £10 — enough to wipe out the benefit of finding a better headline rate.
The exception, as always, is crypto: USDT, ETH and BTC settle in US dollars, so a pound balance is converted if you cash out that way. The rate and the final dollar figure are shown before you confirm. For sterling, use PayPal.
Selling your voucher
- Have the claim code ready — it is on the back of a physical card, or in the email if it was sent digitally.
- Check the payout in the calculator.
- Submit the code, with a photo if you have the physical card.
- Verification takes up to 24 hours. A person checks the code is valid and the balance is what you said.
- Withdraw to PayPal in pounds.
Minimum voucher is £20; minimum withdrawal is £50.
Partly used vouchers are fine
Amazon vouchers are often part-spent — you bought something for £30 with a £50 voucher and forgot about the rest. That is not a problem, and there is no penalty for it.
We check the remaining balance during verification and pay the same 89% on whatever is genuinely left. If you are not sure how much is on the card, check at Amazon.co.uk → Your Account → Gift cards, and enter that figure rather than the face value. Overstating it does not get you more money; it just means we come back to you with the real number before crediting your account.
The Amazon scam you should know about
Amazon vouchers are the most abused instrument in UK fraud, and it is worth being blunt about the pattern.
If anybody — HMRC, the "police", Amazon "security", your bank's "fraud team", a company hiring you, someone you met online — asks you to buy Amazon vouchers and read them the codes, it is a scam. There are no exceptions to this. No legitimate organisation on earth accepts payment in Amazon vouchers.
The same applies in reverse: do not sell vouchers on behalf of someone else, and do not accept an offer to be sent vouchers to cash out and forward the money on. That makes you a money mule, and it is a criminal offence in the UK whether or not you knew where the money came from.
Report attempts to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040.
Other cards worth a look
- Steam and Razer Gold — 90%
- iTunes / App Store, Xbox, PlayStation — 84%
- Google Play, Nintendo eShop, eBay, Netflix — 74%