[Expired] $25 Off Any $100+ Purchase At Staples.com (Excluding Gift Cards) Via Visa Checkout

Staples/Visa have suspended this promotion. It’s expected to become live again tomorrow. This time excluding gift card purchases. 

The Offer

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• Get $25 off your order of $100 or more when you pay with Visa check out.
  • This offer will not appear until you get to the check out screen. There will then be an option to Pay With Visa Check out. Select this option and you should see mention of the promotion. Clicking the direct link should also show you the promotion, but keep in mind this might mess up using a shopping portal.

[Read: Tips for getting a portal to track correctly]

The Fine Print

• Even though you’re using Visa check out, this should still code as a staple purchase (and therefore as an office supply store)
• Discount is applied immediately
• Valid until August 26th, 2014.

Triple Dipping

• Use a Visa business card enrolled in Visa Savings Edge to get an additional 1% in cash back on your staples.com purchases
• If you’re not purchasing gift cards, you can use a shopping portal to get additional cash back on your purchases
  • UPromise: 5%
  • Shop Discover: 5%
  • More options on Cash Back Monitor
• Also make sure you use a credit cards that earns at a high rate on office supply store purchases (up to 5% in cash back/5x Chase UR points)

Our Verdict

Originally this deal did not exclude gift card purchases, after the flood of orders Staples/Visa have suspended this promotion. It’s expected to become live again tomorrow. When you add in all of your discounts you’ll be receiving up to 36% off any staples.com purchase (25% from this promotion, 5% from shopping portal, 5% from credit card, 1% from Visa Savings Edge).

Obviously the deal was much better when gift cards were not excluded, but you should still be able to find something on Staples that you need/can resell. It’ll also be interesting to see if the promotion excludes all gift cards (most likely) or just Staples gift cards and Visa gift cards. We’ll try to let you know on twitter when the deal is live again.

It’ll also be interesting to see if Visa is thinking about trying to compete with AmEx offers and offer something similar through their check out product, or if this was just a promotion aimed at getting more people to have stored cards with that service (most likely the latter).

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Hat tip to Frequent Miler’s quickdeals