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Originally Posted by kyle

Speaking of that, I still have 2 open orders that I placed using borders gift cards. Does anyone know:
- if they will still charge the gift card instead of the credit card?
- how long it takes to ship these orders? (one was a preorder of a blu-ray disc that was released today--I have Prime, and before these pre-orders would have shipped by Monday at the latest, but it is still not even in "shipping soon" state)

Amazon charged my GC for an order the day after the switchover. I'm not sure if they are still doing it. Does Amazon still let you check the balance of Border GC's?

As far as the "Shipping Soon", I'm not sure if that has anything to do with your GC. In the past, if Amazon tried to charge your GC and couldn't, it would just charge the credit card you used to back up the order. And if the credit card charge failed, they'd send you an email asking you to update your payment info.

So at this point, i NEVER buy another item at borders. bye. it was good knowing you.

Not that this tells us anything new, but I had this in my e-mail this morning:

Dear Customer: Starting May 31, 2008, the Borders.com/Waldenbooks.com website is no longer associated with Amazon.com.

If you placed an order for an available item from the Borders.com/Waldenbooks.com website teamed with Amazon.com before May 31, 2008, Amazon.com will fulfill that order and provide any necessary customer service associated with that order.

I just included parts of the e-mail. Sure would have been nice had they sent this out a month ago...would have avoided a great deal of confusion.