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The Offer
- Staples stores will be selling $200 Mastercard gift cards with the $6.95 activation fee waived from 10/10-10/16
The Fine Print
- Limit 5 per customer per day; check with your local store to see their rules
- Valid 10/10-10/16
- In-store only
Our Verdict
Remember to use a card that earns a high rate on office supply store purchases.
Hat tip to GC Galore
Is this deal continuing next week?
How can you liquidate these Staples gift card? Via MO with WM?
No signage, but MC rang up no fee for me in NC.
Having never purchased these types of these cards I have a few questions. Sorry in advance for the newb questions. I mostly use credit cards for everything and none of my credit cards have office supply store rates apart from the Chase % offer.
Can these Visa/MasterCard gift cards be used for online purchases? Added to a mobile wallet like Samsung pay or Google pay to be used on my phone in store? Do these cards run as credit cards or debit cards? I currently don’t have any debit cards, only credit cards. A gas station by me only accepts debit cards so I was just want to be sure. What happens if the card does not have a sufficient amount for the balance to cover the whole charge total? Does the cash register/website know to ask me for another form of payment to cover the difference? What if this scenario is used online/in-store/mobile app to pay for something such as food?
Yes. No. Debit. Declined. No. Same.
Can one use PPK to buy these ?
I don’t have any office supplies credit card and certainly running out of ideas to use up 2 Chase freedom cards Q42021 spend in 5% categories
I was wondering the same thing. I cannot figure out how to use it in-store because the PayPal Key cannot be added to my Samsung Pay wallet or other mobile wallets, so I don’t know how else to use it. I only found articles that mention that the card can only be used online and not in stores.
How are you running out of ideas? The beauty of PPK is that you can use it to buy literally anything online that accepts Mastercard and it counts toward the PayPal category bonus.
If you have an SBA Lan this is a great way to liquidate these cards, since they are considered a debit card. I have liquidated closed to $12,000 to pay down my loans.
Everything that I’m seeing says these have some significant non-zero interest rates. I’m confused on how this works?
Does this work for Amex spending requirement?
AMEX will claw back. Don’t.
Found $200 MCGCs @ 3rd store I went to…Geez!!
Wasn’t advertised on the rack but worked today for MC at 2 different locations.
Worked for me today, no fee on MCGC.