Borders: $5/$5 coupon

Through August 8, 2008, you can order anything for $5 or less from Borders.com and get it for FREE!

Go  here and search for the items you are interested in. Change the search feature to display items by the lowest price first. Find something for less than $5, add it to your cart, and proceed to the checkout. (You can checkout as a guest to speed things up if you don't have an account with Borders.)

When it asks for the promotional code, enter: BR41925. Choose to have it shipped to your local store and your total will be $0!

Have fun shopping! And, if you could, help us out in the comments section by sharing what items you find for less than $5.

Comments

[Ashley]

Not Working for me either. I've been trying for a couple of hours and I am starting to think I'm wasting my time.

[Ashley]

Not Working for me either. I've been trying for a couple of hours and I am starting to think I'm wasting my time.

[Anne]

WOW! I just got 30 items (27 books & 3 CDs) for $29.23 (free shipping!). The starting total was $150.17! How exciting! I was able to get many books we will be using in our Sonlight curriculum. Thank you, thank you for sharing this!

[Nicole]

I just used it with 4 books, a DVD and a CD for $1.05 after the discount. I had it shipped to the store. Thanks for the info!

[Sheena]

*news flash* :)

I've been trying to place my order all day (tried through my Borders account, as a guest, with 0.00 balance, with over 0.00 balance), and nothing seems to work. I called Borders to find out what was going on, because like I said in an earlier comment, I've had problems since Sunday with the site. The customer service rep said that they have been told that the site will be up and running properly no later than Monday (she's keeping her fingers crossed). However, if you are lucky enough to manage to get through the majority of the checkout process and get a pending order number, you can call them and they can try to push it through on their side. Key word here is "try." She told me to call right away in the morning because as the day goes by, the site gets slower and slower from people using it (hmmm...maybe they should have fixed this before the launch, loll). Also, during the day, they take the site "down" to work on it. I'm going to try again tomorrow *sigh*.

Oh, and in case anyone wants to call Customer Care, here's the info:
From US: 800.770.7811
Outside of the US: 615.287.1704

Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM CST
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM CST

I just took it off their website :)

[Ann]

FYI--For every non-discounted item you add to your cart, it will take off $5 or the price of the book if less.

[Karen]

After a couple hours spent trying to check out at the borders site using internet explorer I switched to firefox, limited my order to less than $35 and my order went through without any problem. So, I just got $35 worth of books for 99 cents. Then still using firefox I switched to my husband's name,used his computer, email address and a different credit card and and got another $35 worth of books for $3. Great deal!

[Ashley]

This has been on The Bargain Shopper Lady for a while and it has been working on and off, http://bargainshopperlady.com/2008/07/18/get-a-free-book-from-borders/

[Wendy]

Man I have been trying all day with no luck!!!

[Amy D]

Goody! Christmas for family and friend is now done. 17 gardening books for $2.95! How on earth can they afford to do it? I felt slightly guilty getting that many books for that price but, hey, if they offer it I will come! Thanks again for the info on this promotion!

[Amy D]

Goody! Christmas for family and friend is now done. 17 gardening books for $2.95! How on earth can they afford to do it? I felt slightly guilty getting that many books for that price but, hey, if they offer it I will come! Thanks again for the info on this promotion!

[Nicol]

I didn't have any problems with the site except there isn't much left under $5. Either I'm doing something wrong or they ran out.

[cara]

It took me a while, but I got 11 Little Golden Books (free) and 1 W.E. Griffin book for my husband (reg. 9.99 got it for 4.99) and chose the local store shipping. I tried to place another order to get some DVDs and it appears the site crashed. ?

[SJ]

Wow! It took a long time and a great deal of patience because of the problems with their website, but I eventually ordered $98 worth of books and paid $3.99! I just kept refreshing the browser when I got an error message. Thanks!

[Sarah]

AMAZING!!! This deal worked after I tried it twice. Once I played with it a little I went ahead and found all the books I wanted and then entered the coupon code at the end. I went ahead and ordered $25 worth of books so that I could just get it shipped to my house. Great deal and now I am stocked up on some birthday presents and books that I have wanted to read. Thank you, thank you!!!

[Amy Kareena]

I kept trying this around 3-5pm PST- and kept getting error messages. I left the borders site open on my browser and left to cook dinner & do some other things.

Just now (about 8:45pm PST) I tried checking out once more & it worked the 1st time! I got 2 CDs & 6 books for $1.95! yay! :)

Thanks!

[Amy]

OMG! Is this for real?? I just place 2 orders...The first I paid $9.89 and saved $66.00 (bought about 20 books) and about the same for the second. I hope they do not cancel my orders. Or arest em for steal books when I go to pick up my order instore LOL. This seems like a too good to be true situation. Don't give up! My computer locked up a few times but I went to my cache and was able to access an old cart page and when I checked out my current items in cart popped in even though they were not displayed. Took a while, but wow what a savings! I'll try again tomorrow for sure!

[Amyd]

O.K. I must confess I feel REALLY guilty for taking advantage of a deal! I think I became overly excited to see how much I could get before I thought about it too much. I have cancelled by backordered books and now will be getting 6 instead of 17 for $2.95. I must learn to think before I act! Shame on me...shame on me....

[Sarah K]

Borders just cancelled 1 of my 2 orders- I emailed Customer Care to find out why. I still paid $9, so I would like to at least receive the books I pd. for.

Has anyone else had this happen?

[Money Saving Mom]

Just a word of caution: Using this code to get a number of books for almost nothing could likely result in your order being cancelled as I am guessing this is not what Borders intended.

[Terrah]

My order was cancelled. Was anyone else's?

[Jessica Potter]

I was trying to place an order all night and they must have figured out in the code was wrong. It went from not working to the promotional code being expired.

[Christi D.]

I tried to get some books this morning but it says the "code is expired"! Bummer. They must have realized there was a glitch. Probably a good thing they caught it though.I tried in Firefox and IE just in case.

[Glenda]

I put some books in my cart and went to use the code in checkout this morning and was told that the code had expired. How frustrating!

[kathleen]

promo code is expired

[Wendy]

Finally after trying a million times yesterday my order went through. I actually made a much smaller one than my initial attempts but ended up with 5 free books and one $6 (which is one I wanted anyway). My order cleared at 9:06 PST so it looks like it just went through before the code expired?

[Heather]

I drove all the way to the library to use the internet, thinking that there was something wrong with my computer since it was working for everyone else and not for me and now it is saying that the coupon code is expired. I guess I missed my chance. I was so excited to get some childrens books for my daughter too. :(

[ToniaDavis]

I tried this yesterday and got $85 for $30. It seemed to go through and I had a confirmation number but then I had an e-mail saying that the order had been cancelled. Is this happening to anyone else?

[Wendy]

I don't know why everyone is saying the code is expired. I JUST got my second order to go through at 11:20 AM PST

[Letty]

This does still work- but you have to chose books above $5 each. I called customer care and the lady said it is only valid on items $5 and over, and only one per order. So I ordered one book with her that was originally $12.99. Then I went back online and ordered 5 books, all over $5, and went through with taking $5 off each one. This was done at 1:45 pm CST.

[cara]

The coupon code was intended to be $5 off your total order, and not $5 off each item under $5. It was a glitch and Border's told me that any order that got through before it was caught were being cancelled. Bummer!

[Erin]

**You may have made a purchase without realizing it, if you were able to get far enough in the process to enter credit/debit info.

I was able to check out this morning (10:15 Eastern time) with the promo code.....although I didn't realize I HAD checked out (kept getting error/try-again-later messages) until I saw that my bank account had been debited, twice. Oops.

Their system is still down and customer service is backed up.

If you tried to place an order last night or early this morning, please be aware that it may have gone through, even if your shopping cart is still full or your order status is empty. CHECK your debit or credit accounts! Or if you did a free order with store delivery, keep checking your email or Borders Order Status to see if it went through.

I have not received a confirming email, and when I called customer service to cancel my duplicate order, my orders hadn't even shown up on their system yet, so I have to call back.

[Roxanne]

Yes mine was canceled too. :( They said that it is canceled because I canceled it or the items are not in.....I think they just figured out the glitch.

[jenni williams]

It worked for me!!!!! whooo hooo i save $85!!!! it wouldnt work the first few times but when i added a few 5.50 books it worked great!!!! thanks!

[Katherine]

Just a heads up for those of you who didn't get your order to work: check and make sure you weren't charged anyway. I was checking my bank account this morning and I was charged three times even though I never got the sale "finalized". I haven't been able to get through to customer service yet either!

[Patty]

I just did the deal. It took me forever to get it to work but it finally went through after I deleted a bunch of stuff, made sure they were all items that ship within 24 hours, and were a multiple of one. I also had it shipped to the store. I really don't know what I ordered after so much deleting. I guess my confirmation e-mail tells me that, I am just too tired to think about it anymore! Anyways, thank you so much for the post! Oh yeah, I tried to enter the code one more time to see if I could just do a smaller order and it says I already used the code. Interesting...

[Wendy]

Cara, thanks for the heads up. I just checked my credit card and although I only thought I had ordered twice (I only have 2 confirmation emails and only got through to the end of ordering process twice) there are five charges on my account. I think I'll just see what they do as it sounds like they are canceling orders anyway. Worst case scenario I will end up with some duplicate books that I can use as gifts I guess.

[jenni williams]

mine has not been cancelled yet?? has everyones? ):

[David]

I am so glad that I found this. Went through put 8 books on my list checked out. It took 2 tries but it went though and got 8 books for 5o cents. Thats just crazy, would have cost 33 bucks.

[Krista in Colorado]

This was fabulous! I just bought $37.96 in books for $7.96! I found 8 books, 3 for fun, 5 that I've been wanting to buy. All of the Patricia St. John books were available (I've been trying to find them at used bookstores for months), and I was able to buy them for between $1-$3 each. No, that's not free, but it's better than I'd find at a used bookstore and these will be new! Thank you, thank you, thank you! My daughter's birthday shopping is done!

The way it worked -- anything less than $5 was free and then it took $5 off anything over that. I filled my cart, entered the promo code, it discounted my total, and I paid with no difficulty. Maybe some of those glitches from earlier have been worked out!

[Heather]

Wow, as if I hadn't already wasted an alarming amount of time on this with nothing to show for it...I checked my bank account and even though I never got any kind of confirmation (and thought I never got a single sale to go through) there are two identical charges. Oh, and customer service is closed.

[tami lewis]

argh! i have been trying to process my order for over 2 hours- it still won't work!!

[Finance Girl]

I'm sorry, but I don't think that using this code is dishonest or unethical. Perhaps it is not what Borders intended, but it is not our job to determine their intentions. Also, unless you are making multiple orders, the code is still only being used once per person - it is just applying itself toward multiple books.

I think it is up to each individual to determine whether they are comfortable with taking advantage of the deal, and we should not be judging others' decisions.

[Michelle]

It just worked for me not 5 minutes ago. I did buy a pricey book that I really really wanted also. The code took 5 dollars off that book and I "bought" 4 other kids books that were regularly priced under $5, which all came up free ($23.96 in savings). I wanted to keep adding books since my son is such a Magic Tree House fan, but the site started getting buggy and I worried it wouldn't work anymore so I quit there. My book was enough to get free home shipping, so now I don't even need to take the bus up to the store.

[moodswingingmommy]

It worked for me! I have a whole selection of Little Golden books (and a Mo Willems book- I couldn't resist) to give to the kids for the holidays. All for $ 1.99 and a short trip to our local store to pick up. Thank you!!!

[moodswingingmommy]

It worked for me! I have a whole selection of Little Golden books (and a Mo Willems book- I couldn't resist) to give to the kids for the holidays. All for $ 1.99 and a short trip to our local store to pick up. Thank you!!!

[Amy]

Update: I received an email that my order has been shipped to the store today though it looks like a partial order the savings seem to be applied right. I entered the code into my laptop today and it still works for me off each item. It no longer works on the computer I originally placed the order on so I guess it it once per computer/customer?

[Lisa]

Is anyone having luck with this this morning (Monday)? It looked like it was going to work for me and then I decided to change something in my order...big mistake. Now I'm getting that "try again later" message.

[jenni williams]

mine seems to has gone through on saterday morning and did NOT get cancelled so far as i can tell.. did anyone else do it successfully??

[Jessica]

My order went through today Monday and I got a confirmation email. I also did children's books, some over $5 and some under.