Amazon, Starting an "Amazon Point" where points accumulate according to purchased items

Amazon launched "Amazon Point" which is awarded points according to purchase of goods since 8:15 am today. The accumulated points can be used for shopping at Amazon's online store like a point service of a major consumer electronics store.

However, since there are many parts that differ from point service of home electronics mass merchandisers, it is necessary to use caution when using. In addition to celebrating the start of point service, we are planning to implement a point present campaign with a maximum of 10000 points from today until Wednesday, February 28th.

Details are as follows.
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According to this release, Amazon points gained points according to the item you bought, and the points you accumulated areAmazon.co.jpIt is said to be a service that you can use for 1 point = 1 yen to shop at. For items with Amazon points, the number of points will be displayed on detailed page, search results page, etc.

Basically, giving points is temporarily granted temporary points that are 40 days after the shipping date of the item as a guideline and until then that can not be used for payment. It will be a "confirmed point" that can be used for payment after 40 days, but it seems that it may take 1 to 2 days to reflect from the temporary point to the confirmed point and be reflected on the My Point page.

The point that can be used for one payment is 100,000 points and it seems that it can not be used for payment when ordering an exhibition item from a third party such as Amazon market place. I can not even use some of my Amazon points for payment. In principle I will use all the points for payment, but if I had points more than the payment amount, the remaining points can be used for the next and subsequent orders. The term of validity is one year from the last purchase.

By the way, even if you place an order on Amazon Point, if you order an eligible item, you will be given a new point regardless of payment method. If you pay around this point by point, it will differ from the major electronics store that only returns the amount of deducted amount.

It is quite an irregular point system ....