It shouldn't really matter to Amazon. Their fulfillment service is just an API for saying "take this item from your warehouse and ship it to this address". Amazon doesn't know that you're shipping things in response to a BitCoin payment, versus goodies for KickStarter backers, versus holiday gifts for customers. All BitPay is doing is integrating their API with Amazon's API for you so that receiving a payment can kick off a shipment. It doesn't create any new potential liability for Amazon; they're not touching bitcoins and their payment for the fulfillment service is separate from what they're fulfilling.
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It shouldn't really matter to Amazon. Their fulfillment service is just an API for saying "take this item from your warehouse and ship it to this address". Amazon doesn't know that you're shipping things in response to a BitCoin payment, versus goodies for KickStarter backers, versus holiday gifts for customers. All BitPay is doing is integrating their API with Amazon's API for you so that receiving a payment can kick off a shipment. It doesn't create any new potential liability for Amazon; they're not touching bitcoins and their payment for the fulfillment service is separate from what they're fulfilling.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. So I guess its only a matter of time there are electronics stores accepting BTC online
There are already many electronics for sale for bitcoins:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Electronics