The Offer
Page 8 of the upcoming weekly ad
- Purchase $300 in American Express Gift Cards from Staples and receive a $20 Staples gift card after completing the easy rebate
The Fine Print
- Valid 8/28/16-9/3/16
- In store only
- Limit of one rebate per household
Our Verdict
Probably my least favorite of the Staples gift card offers, American Express gift cards are a pain to deal with and it’s also a staples gift card rebate. This is your last chance to use up the 5% American Express sync offer if you received it as well. Otherwise use a card that earns at a high rate on office supply stores. Remember this doesn’t start until this Sunday. OfficeMax/Depot offer is way better if you haven’t been taking advantage of that.
For more info on the Staples Easy Rebates system see All You Need to Know About Staples Easy Rebates.
Hat tip to reader Tom A
Can these be reliably used to buy VGCs at grocery stores or elsewhere?
Amex gc boooo.
Do these have PINs? Anyone know?
Amex gift cards don’t have PINs.
they’re not Debit. they run as credit
@William and Chuck
You guys do a great job, but any way you could put “In-Store Only” in the title for these Stapes/OD/OM posts? I know they are usually in-store, but it causes me to have to click to make sure.
Hmm, I think if it’s online we’d write online since it’s much more exciting, haha. Hard to encapsulate all details in a title.
As Chuck pointed out, if it’s online we usually put that in the title as that is the exception. This title is already massively long, we can only put so much information in each title.
in the world of disappearing MS opportunities… I wonder if it’s better to used CSR on this to meet min spend or to use Ink and get 5x… decisions…
If you’re that desperate I suppose you an meet min spend, but INK is a no brainer and would almost never pass up on it.