The Offer
- Office Max is offering a $20 discount on the purchase of $300 in Visa or Mastercard gift cards.
The Fine Print
- Valid until 11/28/15
- Limit 2 discounts per customer ($40 off $600 is the most you can get according to the terms). Update: The register is not actually enforcing this limit, via Milestomemories
- Discount comes off instantly at register
- Office Max only, offer is not showing at Office Depot reportedly
Our Verdict
This is obviously an awesome deal if can find the $200 denomination gift cards since you’ll end up paying $580 for $600 in Visa gift cards after the $40 discount kicks in ($620 – $40 + $580). Even if you have to buy $100 cards which will make for more fees (6 activation fees instead of 3 activation fees), it could make sense if you have a Chase INK card as you’ll rack up lots of free office-supply bonus points and you’ll end up paying slightly less than $600 for $600 in gift cards.
It’s possible that it will work to buy more than $600 in one transaction, but 2 x $300 is the official limit so it may not work. Let us know your experiences.
You can buy more than $600 so long as it’s split up into separate transactions or separate store visits. The limit on how much you can do will depend on what the store allows, e.g. they may recognize you from being there an hour ago and enforce the limit of $600 in gift cards per person.
The biggest problem with deals like this is that the stores run out of the gift cards quickly. In the past, we’ve seen deals like this last a few weeks which gives time for restocking, but this deal is only this weeks and stock will definitely be a limitation here.
HT: milestomemories and the picture above is from there as well
