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Update 6/24/25: 5% back through 7/5 with max cashback of either $10 or $18. There might also be a 10% cashback option out there. (ht Snake River)
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The Offer
Some people are seeing a nice offer among their Chase Offers/BofA offers:
- Get 5% or 10% back at Office Depot/Max, up to $5.50 or $11.
A number of banks use the same back end for these offers. This includes: Chase, Bank of America, Regions Bank, Suntrust Bank, BBVA, BB&T, PNC, Columbia Bank, Beneficial Bank, and Christian Community CU. You can read this post for more information.
Our Verdict
Not a huge discount, but might be useful if a gift card deal comes along.
Post History:
- Update 5/27/25: Available again with a short expiration date of 5/30/25 (ht denflyer)
- Update 4/23/25: Deal is back and valid until 4/30/25
- Update 3/3/25: Available again through 03/31/2025
- Update1/10/25: Available again at 5%, 10%, or 15%. Valid through 1/31/25.
- Update 11/14/24: New version with 15% back, up to $10 max cashback, valid through 11/30/24 (ht michikade)
- Update 11/7/24: Deal is back through 11/30/24
- Update 10/13/24: Deal is back through 10/31/24
- Update 8/29/24: New deal for 5% back ($18 maximum) or 10% back ($11 maximum). Valid until 9/28/2024.
- Update 8/1/24: Deal is back until August 24, 2024. $18 maximum cashback.
- Update 2/18/24: Deal is back through 3/31/24 (ht GWBS)
- Update 1/12/24: Deal is back through 2/17/24 (ht Celia and Northernva)
- Update 11/27/23: Deal is back through 12/31/23
- Update 9/1/23: Deal back through 9/30/23
- Update 8/4/23: Deal is back and valid 8/31/2023
- Update 7/8/23: Deal is back and valid until July 31, 2023
- Update 6/2/23: Deal is back and valid until 6/30/23
- Update 5/1/23: Deal is back for some people. Either it’s for 5% back or 10% back. Expires either 5/31/23 or 6/1/23. (ht Steve)
- Update 4/3/23: Deal is back and valid until April 30, 2023.
- Update 1/20/23: Deal is back and valid until 2/28/23.
- Update 12/15/22: Back and extended through 1/15/23
- Update 2/2/22: Deal is back for 10%, up to $11, valid through 12/31/22 (ht Steve)
- Update 10/20/22: Deal is back for 10%, up to $11, valid through 11/29 (ht Steve); Update 8/24/22: More people seeing this offer, up to $11; Update 8/18/22: This is back at 10%, up to $8 (ht joremero); Update 7/26/22: More people are seeing this offer now, even on multiple Chase cards. Some of the offers are for $11 max now, instead of the typical $8 max.Update 7/3/22: Deal is back and valid through August 15, 2022. Update 5/17/22: Deal is back and valid through ?; Update 4/1/22: Deal is back for 10% back at Office Depot/Max through April 30, 2022, up to $8 or $11; Update 3/19/22: Deal is back and valid until 3/24/22; Update 2/2/22: Deal is back again; Update 1/5/22: Offer is back through January 31, 2022 for 10% back, up to $8 cashback; Update 11/17/21: Offer is back through December 16. Some are seeing 10% back, up to $8; others are seeing 5% back, up to $7.50; Update 10/5/21: Offer is back through November 1, 2021. Hopefully we’ll get a Visa/MC deal to use this on before it expires. Hat tip to pointschatter; Update 6/21/20: extended until June 24th, 2020. Hat tip to GC galore; Update 6/7/20: Extended to June 14, 2020. Hat tip to FM; Update 6/2/20: Now valid until June 7, 2020. Hat tip to GC Galore
Maybe a DP (??)
Bastards went back in time and applied 5% offer to old transaction. I added offer 06/28. Did $600 transaction in store 06/29. Got ‘Congrats!’ email this morning that I earned $0.52. A quick look at card activity, and that reflects the $10.04 I spent on 06/10 for my monthly ink recycle qualifier. So, I missed out on $17.48 CB.
And it doesn’t seem like there is a real workaround here except to not use my Ink cards for low dollar spend. I definitely wasn’t chasing Ink 5% on the $10 transaction… just habit to use one of my Inks when I’m at ODOM.
You should be okay. The terms read “until a cash back max of $18 is reached” so it seems to be multiple use.
The interesting part is that it seems to indicate that clipping the offer days after could work. Assuming of course that the deal was available during the offer dates.
Thanks for pointing out the aggregate spend in the T&C. Hopefully I get a full payout… the same thing just happened to 2 more of my Inks (small dollar purchase amount earlier in the month, Congrats email indicating bonus earn on that purchase even though it wasn’t clipped (or visible to me to clip) at the time. Fingers crossed. I’d hate having to eat $53.xx because of something silly like that.
As for your second point, the offer was not available (visible??) to me on the Account on 06/10 when I made the first purchase. I check the offers pretty regularly, so it was only available (visible???) to me at most 1-2 days before I clipped it.
Confirmed you are correct. Just got ‘balance’ Congrats! email for $17.48 earned (on subsequent purchase).
Glad to hear that.
I got 5%, max $10, 5% max $18 back, 10% max $11 back across various cards
Do we think there will be a Mastercard gift card deal at Office Depot during the week of 6/30?
Yes, the Mastercard deal should start next week at OD according to the normal rotation. I always wait for confirmation here before I buy though since my stores never have signs or any clue what’s going on with the gift card sales.
How many times will Office Depot let you split up payments? Got them on all Chase cards and expiration date lines up nicely with Office Depot scheduled to have Visa gift card discounts next week 6/29 to 7/5
Depends on the clerk, really. I’ve done 5 or 6 before but most of the employees and all the managers know me.
Got 5-10% on at least a half dozen cards.
Got 5% back on up to $18 on 3 Ink Cash
My offer is 10% back up to $11 on Ink Unlimited.
Some locations have Giftcards.com cards. This allows use to stack the Chase discount with GC.com sales on third-party cards and GC.com portal cashback.
have 5% up to $10 on Wells Fargo deals.
No OfficeMax locations in the North East USA.
There are some in the Philly area.
If you actually need to buy an office product, order on the web site.