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The Offer
- Buy $300 in Visa gift cards and get a $20 Visa prepaid rebate via Staples Easy Rebates
The Fine Print
- Valid Sunday 8/6 through Saturday 8/12 (starts this coming Sunday)
- In-store only
- Limit one rebate per household
Our Verdict
This is the best of the Staples deals since it’s $20 back as a Visa prepaid card, not a Staples gift card.
You can learn more about Staples Easy Rebates in this post. As always, be sure to use a credit card that earns bonus points for office supply stores.
A lot of people buy two $200 Visa gift cards to rack up more INK points. You can alternatively buy one $200 and one $100 if liquidation is hard/costly for you.
Hat tip to Slickdeals
Submitted four rebates on 8/7, as of today status tracker showing all four rewards have been mailed.
I just checked and one of my rebates has been sent. My paper rebate is still listed as “validation in progress.” I am not sure what that means.
Anyone receive their rebate card in the mail yet? I haven’t
Well, I just checked my rebate online and discovered I was being denied without a clear explanation why. So, I am going to re-do the submission and submit it via the mail and see what happens.
Anybody submitted the rebate today not get an email or not able to search it?
I submitted 3 different rebates for different items this past week. One is verified. One is pending verification and the other one is showing as “submitted.”
Bought three sets of two cards each. Submitted three different rebates back to back using different names, addresses, and emails and all of them got flagged for exceeding household limit. Can I call in or something about this or chat with them on their website?
Is there any couch method to liquidate these VISA cards? If there is nothing, I don’t mind going to WM. How to find the zip code for these cards to be used online?
there is a website on the back of the card usually http://giftcardmall.com/mygift where you can go and register your name/address and use the card for online tramsactions including reloading Amazon balances
That was awesome. Thanks. Didn’t know that because I’m new to this hobby.
Got two of those rebates for the last period and it had an activation sticker where I needed to call in for the rebate card. Never seen this before. It asked to confirm my zip code or phone number or something. I luckily remembered which was which between the two addresses. Anyone else get this?
Yes, I got that on my last gift card as well. I forgot about that.
Staples rebate cards were being hacked and several people their rebate cards were arriving already used by the hackers. After lot of complaining, the rebate processor is now sending them deactivated requiring the additional step for you to call in to activate. Though a minor inconvenience, this is better than having to grapple with hacked cards. With the new activation required the hacking appears to be lesser if not completely dead.
If I want to buy 4 cards to get two rebates, do I need to do 2 separate transactions at Staples, or can I just buy 4 cards(4*200) to get two $20 vgc’s?
There’s a limit of one per household, so you can only do one. Two separate addresses/households would need two separate receipts (can’t be on the same receipt).
Just got back from Staples to buy my Visa gift cards. While I was there, the cashier told me that I could buy 3 reams of paper for 25 cents after rebates. I bought them and used my Amex Business card for 5% back. Doesn’t that mean that I get paid to buy the reams of paper??
Whats considered a “Safe” amount of visa GC to buy monthly on an ink? I have some large bills coming up and was thinking of buying quite a few but don’t want to get shut down.
Keep away from banking with Chase and keep your payments clean and consistent (not too many per month), and hopefully all should be fine doing a few thousand each month.
When kiosks were a thing I did the full $50k on Ink once, over about six months. Now they aren’t but I still manage about $15k in office store and utility spending annually. Don’t deposit money orders in Chase and you should be good.
Can you elaborate on what “When kiosks were a thing” means?
Kiosks were a way to liquidate Visa gift cards at Walmart without speaking to anyone. You could load Bluebird or Serve, or purchase money orders from them.
I know that you should not deposit money orders in checking account. So, what I do is that after I make money orders at walmart, I use those money orders to make a payment to CHASE CREDIT card. What do you think about this method?
I deposit the money orders into my Schwab checking account and pay Chase from that account. Just don’t deposit the money orders into your Chase checking.
That’s always the question. I brought just over 5 transactions one day on my ink cash when they have $20 off with OfficeMax on vgcs. I have been with chase for nearly a decade. Got a call regarding my activity and wanting a call back. Never called them back.
OUCCHHH!! Trying to meet min spend on an Amex Gold, bought 6 $300 vgc @ Staples.com, now I see online that it lists as a vgc purchase under Staples.com charge. Will they deduct points for this? Does Staples always list product type under purchase? I was under the impression it would show as office supplies/equipment or s/t general like that. Also, I bought them as one transaction but on my acct on amex.com ea. gc is charged as seperate purchase. Am I missing s/t here? New to the ms game…
It should be fine, but YMMV. Staples passes level three data.
yes. u are missing something because you are new to the game. thats expected. but you should be reading way more before you do anything else. especially the FT shut down threads and Amex FR and clawbacks. i always recommend huge amounts of reading before doing anything because the risks are real.
amex is probably one of the most generous w/ merchant CC fee discounts when it comes to Level 3 Processing. data mining consumer purchasing behavior is key for any business. u will never even guess how much info merchants give to amex in exchange for cheaper processing fees. Amex knows everything. way more than what your online activity log tells you. but the details that you see should be enough warning.
you put $1800 on amex gold? which one? PRG? BRG? assume its the 75k MR bonus. either way, amex can see what you did and could clawback anytime if ur trying to hit MSR. you need to just be careful and put organic spend for MSR. especially for charge cards.
Ouch again. I put it on the BRG for 75k bonus. Need to reach 10k spend in 4 mo.Also, what does Amex FR mean?
Thanks for the heads-up & warning… Thought I was all well-read already ;( , didn’t see anywhere (forum/comments) that details of purchase shows so specifically.
well cindy, in this game, you can never read enough, but if you dont know about Amex FR yet and you bought 6 x $300 vgc @ Staples.com on a BRG charge card which amex looks at very closely then you def need to read more.
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/saving-your-credit-cards-from-shutdown
at this point, just try to slow down and focus on organic spend for ur amex. esp charge cards. 3k/mo should be possible.