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Originally Posted by RareBird
This is such a bizarre move. I've gifted a good half dozen books or more to my wife and vice versa. Good to know I can still pick up actual gift cards but still it baffles me why they would do this.
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I feel somewhat guilty, as one possible reasons I think they may have gone for this move is that with gifts you could get around geographic restrictions. I had a prepaid card in dollars, and used it to buy books on a new, US account to gift them to my UK account. Having said that, curtailing the gift option altogether is too drastic a measure, and I am sure that they could have found some other ways to prevent this (e.g. accounts based in country X cannot gift to accounts based in country Y).