[Expired] Staples: Save $5 on Activation Fee of $200 Visa Gift Cards (4/10/22 – 4/16/22), Limit 5

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• I just visited Staples this morning. With the fee-free deal, the cards are always gone by Wednesday morning at my local Staples. With this $5 off deal, I'd guess that about 20% of the cards were sold. Hopefully Staples will realize that they get a lot more food traffic with the fee free deal.

• No, I will not partake. It's already a questionable exercise doing it when the full fee is waived.

  • When the full fee is waived, I get $75 in URs (transfer to CSR) per $1000 of gift cards purchased. It costs $0.92 to convert $1,000 to money orders. So I'm up $74. At $1.95/card, I'm up $64 instead. If you max out the CIC, it's best to only do fee free. If you don't, there's no reason no to do this deal IMO.

    • i use these Staples 200 VGC to pay my 2% City double cash.

      • You pay off your Citi Card, with debit cards? Lol how?

    • Could you pls share where to do money order? Thx

      • Food Lion (I'm in Virginia)

        • So FL allows 5 GCs in the same transaction?

• Amex offer 30 of 100 spending at staples

  Does this stack? Are visa cards eligible?

  • It has worked in the past for me

  • it worked. bought it this morning and got the amex email right after

  • From my experience it worked the last dozen times with my AMEX Staples offer, however I don't has a crystal ball to know whether it will work the next time, I just try and see

• Squeeze the bottom line, Good old days, $15 off, now only a skinny $5. sigh :(

  • The good old days was when Office Depot gave $30 back when you purchased 3 $200 cards.

  • The good old day I got $2000 worth of product free after a 56 mail in rebates deal from Staples.. huh $15off????

  • In the "good old days," the $15 off was only if you purchased two VGCs, so it was $7.50 off per card.

  • $15 off is Office Max/Depot.

    • Back in the rebate days…

• It's been like over a year since these sales included buying the cards online. Is this permanent?

• Dont do it

• The current Amex offer will push me to do this one instead of waiting until a no activation fee one reappears.

  • Why???
    I have a $25 offer for $100 good until 6/30, why the rush? Fee-free will come back LONG before then.

    • Because then I'm not fighting to get to a Staples before it opens on the first day. Chances are more likely that I would be able to get a few of these. Plus, I have bills I can pay. I can only use these organically.

• If I buy 5 cards, the net fee would be $9.75 ($1.95 x 5). If I add in $1 to pay for liquidation expense, that's $10.75 for 5,000 UR points (Chase Bus. Cash card). $0.00215 per point (ie, just over two-tenths of a cent per point).

  Not as good as no fee, but still very good value. (Unless you're going to max out your $25,000 spend per year in office supply anyhow).

  • or use them to pay bills in no category bonus. I pay my auto ins with these 200.00 visa cards.

  • Very true, (and depends on your 5X bandwidth available, (I.E., older Ink Plus, AND Ink Cash = 75K/year Bandwidth @ 5X).
    If liquidating via organic spend, 4X is less than 5X, (but still worth doing).
    I'm completely jealous that you have a way to liquidate 5 $200 Meta's to cash for $1!

    • I know. I have this fear that one day they're going to say, "sorry, cash only" for MO's. :(

      • They already do at half the stores that sell MOs around here.

  • stonks

• DON'T BUY them! We need the fee-free VGCs to be back. Don't let Staples think there's demand for $5 off.

  • They do this every year.

    • And then they switch back to fee free because they don’t sell well otherwise.. therefore don’t buy these

• Don't buy... we need to teach Staples we don't appreciate these faux "sales".

  • If we didn't appreciate these faux sales. We shouldn't even need to be told not buy...