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The Offer
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- Staples stores will be offering fee-free Visa gift cards during the week of July 11 – July 17.
The Fine Print
- Limit 5 per customer per day.
- Offer valid in store only.
- Valid 7/11/21–7/17/21.
Our Verdict
Always nice when this deal comes around. Remember to use a card that earns at a high rate on office supply store purchases.
Hat tip to GC Galore
Looks like Staples having GC promotion one after another, any news on OD?
Staples just started a $200 MasterCard no-fee offer yesterday.
Has anyone been able to load the bluebird debit card with VGC lately at Walmart?
I went today and was unable to load them. The cashier said this is a gift card, so cannot be used.
I’ve never tried it before, but I’m going to give it a go. What’s the best way to phrase it to the cashier? “I’d like to load this card with 3 separate swipes?”
Thanks for the tip! Is there a max # of swipes they allow? I’ve got thousands I need to xfer to BB.
Many cashiers don’t know how to load BB. The ones who do know may get confused and suspicious about multiple swipes. Do one swipe per transaction. That’s what i do. I do multiple transactions back-to-back. Need to find a cashier who would do that. This is at a regular terminal and not MC/Cs.
Thanks for the tip. How many transactions will they do for you before refusing? Do you generally get more in at a regular terminal vs MC?
Thanks again! Was able to load 2 200s today using this method. It worked, but I didn’t make the cashier lady very happy. 🙂
Interesting. Will try that as well!
Thanks.
Got it. Thank you. I’ll try that.
Did you use a kiosk or the cashier helped you out?
Anyone use GBank as liquidation method lately? They have been coding as GDN reload with 3.74 load fee this week. Hopefully it’s just the terminal at my MS friendly MC.
Stupid question, getting the following error when trying to register one of the VGCs. Do I just need to wait and try again tomorrow? The VGC looks totally normal and the other 4 cards were BAU.
“We are unable to process your request at this time. If you continue to receive this error, please contact Cardholder services by calling the number on the back of your card.”
I have that happen once in awhile. Most of the time it’s a wrong number entered in one of the fields. The 8s look like 0s sometimes in the CID to me 🙂
Just try again and double check the numbers.
Thanks! Gave it an hour and tried again – all set. And agree, the 8s and 0s do look strikingly alike.
Will purchasing this work to meet the SUB minimum for CSP?
US Bank SUB ok for these transactions?
Yes
“Nah, man. They stopped sending $200 ones to us. You can check other Staples.”
How plausible is this excuse?
It’s bullshit. Stores don’t get sent things. They do inventory and ask for what they need.
Anyone know when the Office Depot will do the VGC promotions? Did they do in June? The local Staples always keeps the GCs during the promotion.
What’s the issuer for these? I’ve had trouble liquidating Simon Visa in my area.
Noob question
Is it possible to use these at PL$ or check cashing places ? I am in nyc we don’t have a lot of grocery stores