Staples Now Selling $300 Visa Gift Cards Online With $8.95 In Fees

October 8, 2015

Staples.com is now selling $300 Visa gift cards online, the card comes with the following fees:

$7.95 in purchase fees
$1 in shipping/handling fees

I don’t know of any way to get the $1 shipping fee removed, so it’s basically just a fee of $8.95. Let’s look at your cost per point compared to the $100 and $200 cards, assuming you’re using a card that earns 5x at Office Supply Stores.

$100 gift card costs $6.95 in fees and will earn 534.75 points or a cost of 1.30¢ per point
$200 gift card costs $6.95 in fees and will earn 1034.75 points or a cost of 0.671¢ per point
$300 gift card costs $8.95 in fees an will earn 1544.75 points or 0.579¢ per point

The fee on the $300 card is basically 3% of the card value compared to 3.5% on the $200 cards. This is awesome news for anybody that manufactured spends at Staples.

Hat tip to tjak on Dans Deals Forums

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LK (@guest_183456)

October 10, 2015 02:05

#183456

pretty sure the $100 Visas sell for $5.95 not 6.95

Dan (@guest_183264)

October 9, 2015 16:14

#183264

Hope a rebate will be offered soon for the VGCs purchase

LiteSalt (@guest_183129)

October 9, 2015 11:34

#183129

I usually get $1,800 per order, so given the option of $12 savings per order and three fewer cards to deal with – SIGN ME UP!

Alex (@guest_183040)

October 9, 2015 08:32

#183040

How would you liquidate these? Through bluebird or serve?
Thank you.

Dave (@guest_182923)

October 9, 2015 03:05

#182923

Are all the portals for VGC purchases at staples.com still dead?

Mike (@guest_182926)

October 9, 2015 03:15

#182926

Dave

Yes, and not just VGC. I haven’t gotten a payout from a portal on a third party GC purchase from staples.com since late May. They track but they track at $0.

Eric (@guest_182929)

October 9, 2015 03:22

#182929

Dave

Yes…why would that suddenly return?

Jaime Moore (@guest_182919)

October 9, 2015 02:57

#182919

Any idea which portals payout on gc purchases at staples?

dani (@guest_183385)

October 9, 2015 22:18

#183385

Jaime Moore

Upromise

James (@guest_182902)

October 9, 2015 01:53

#182902

Are these these particular VGC’s loadable at Walmart via Serve?

Mike (@guest_182853)

October 8, 2015 23:03

#182853

I’m not holding my breath but I’m hoping they start carrying this in store too. I almost never buy these online since my local store lets me use the rebate gift cards for gift card purchases.