Reposting this because today is the last day for this offer. Use it up if you haven’t already.
The Offer
Amex is targeting some people with a great Amex Offer for staples.com.
- Spend $100 at staples.com with an enrolled card and receive a $25 statement credit
The Fine Print
- Online at staples.com only
- Offer valid until June 19, 2016
- If you order an item during the offer period but it is not provided until after 6/19/2016, it may not count towards determining whether the purchase qualifies for the offer (more details here)
- Not valid on purchases shipped outside of the US
- Not valid for e-gift card purchases
- Not valid for gift cards in bulk purchases (I don’t know what this means)
- Offer not valid on online orders that are placed in-store through sales associate
- Excludes Quill, Smilemaker, Staples Business Advantage, Staples 4 Government, Staples Toner Services, Staples Technology Solutions, Staples Promotional Products, Staples Print Solutions (same as Staples Easy Print), Copy and Printing Services, Staples Contract and Commercial, Staples App Center, Staples Industrial, Staples Book Rental, Staples Simplexity, Staples Share fund, and Coastwide Labs
- Enrollment limited
- Spend for this offer is cumulative – you can split it up into more than one transaction
Our Verdict
I was lucky to get targeted on all my cards and saved them all via the multi-tab trick, but many others are not seeing this offer – it’s targeted. Check out your own account and see if you were targeted.
While e-gift cards are excluded in the terms, physical gift cards should work to trigger the offer credit. For example, you can buy $100 Visa gift card for $1.06.95 and profit around $18. Some people may choose to buy the higher denomination cards of $200 or $300. Staples.com also sells many other physical gift cards to places like Staples, Lowe’s, Itunes, and more.
Update: The e-gift card exclusion is apparently only for Staples e-gift cards sold through Cashstar. Third-party e-gift cards are working, as per the comments to this post. Staples sells e-gift cards to places like Target, eBay, Lowe’s, Gap and more; these are fulfilled by Giftcardmall and should work to trigger the offer credit.
We’ll send this out via the DoCHotDeals Twitter account since, in the past, offer for Staples tend to disappear quickly. Although I suspect that since this one is more targeted it will remain, we’ll err on the side of caution.
HT: frugalballer on Slickdeals
View more Amex offers here & see these posts to learn more about Amex Offers:
- AmEx Offers: An Introduction & Profitable Examples
- How To Sign Up For Multiple American Express Sync Offers
- Amex Offer Credit Not Posting, What to Do?
- How Does American Express Decide Who Receives What AmEx Sync Offer?
- Do I Need To Make A Single Purchase For AmEx Offers, Or Is It Cumulative?
- What Happens When You Have Two Active AmEx Offers For The Same Store?
- Amex Offers: Do Electronic Wallets Trigger the Offer Credit?
- Order Date and Posting Date for Amex Offers Redeemed Online
