This was originally posted on November 3rd, we’re reposting because it is now live.
Starting Sunday, November 6, there are two deals going on in Staples stores.
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Visa Gift Card Deal
- Buy $300 in Visa gift cards and get back $20 via Staples Easy Rebate
This deal is valid 11/6 – 11/12, Sunday through Saturday.
There’s also a Mastercard gift card deal at Staples this week (10/30-11/5), but only a $15 rebate.
Gap Deal
- Get 20% off Gap gift cards at Staples stores
This deal is valid 11/6 – 11/19, for two weeks.
There’s no resale angle on Gap gift cards at this rate, but useful for holiday gifts or shopping.
Hat tip to Slickdeals
I purchased 2- $200 gift cards on multiple consecutive days thinking the rebate was good for 1 per household per day, and now Staples is rejecting my rebates other than the first one. Is that the typical deal, one per the whole time of the promotion? Office depot instant rebates are every day.
Only one per household, you should have used another address for the 2nd one. And no need to buy it on different day.
I was unable to purchase USPS MO using these Metabank VGC yesterday in So Cal.
been that way for awhile. same with US Bank. YMMV with everything though. still reports of some success. but its not surprising that shit is shut down since thats all people do now after the birds and serve… sigh…
I went to staples in central tn. They do not have the rebate deal
I bought the VGCs today and took them to Walmart to get money orders as I always do, but they wouldn’t work. The cashier never asked to see them but kept trying to figure out why they were being rejected until the register printed a piece of paper that she showed me. It said, “cash or debit card only.” I guess they’ve hard coded the registers in my area. Ugh.
Did you use them as debit cards (telling cashier to run $200 increments as a debit card payment)?
Yep, I had been doing it for about a year the same way.
FYI:
Bought VGCs on Sunday but rebate receipt did not print.
However, I was able to submit it online 3-4 hours after the purchase and get email confirmation.
The gap cards are available online, just finished w a transaction!
can I use the Mileage Plus X ap (3X at staples) with my Ink card and get a total of 8 points/$?
looks like it coded “work related” on the chase card which looks like it’s going to work. Anyone do this?
This is in store only, so I don’t see how you’d do that.
mileage plus x ap is on my phone William–so I just pull it up to make in store purchase. I’ll let you know if it worked.
They seem to be having this for either Visa or Master Card every week. I think they’re trying to goose their revenues before the end of the year. BTW, for the MC, I suggest draining them ASAP — there’s a lot of hacking going on, and if you don’t drain it, someone else will.
How can that even happen?
Crazy, but happened to me with 3 consecutive MC gc’s that were purchased at the same time (beginning of Oct) at a Staples in NJ. The were completely sealed, not opened sitting in a box at home.
Inside job at the manufacturing line? Or some sophisticated scanning device?!
same thing happened to me with 2 mastercards purchased at OfficeMax in late September. Keep your receipts until you spend them…there is a process to get your funds back, but you have to have proof of purchase.
If I did this promotion 2 weeks ago( was exactly the same one) can I do it again coming week ?
Yes
Sorry if this is a dumb question – but is this limited to one per household (or mailing address)? Just got my Ink+ this week (in-branch preapproval finally after trying for close to a year to get this damn card!) and eager to get in on the action.
Yup, one per household