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The Offer
People are reporting a deal showing up in Office Max/Depot stores for the ‘Everywhere’ Visa gift card line:
- Get a $15 instant discount when purchasing $300 in Everywhere Visa gift cards, including the Grocery, Fuel, Dining, Movies, and Style versions of the card.
The Fine Print
- Limit 1 per household/business
- Discount applied at register
- Valid 5/6 – 15/12
- One offer per transaction
- Issued by Metabank
- Card works as a Visa debit card; no cash access
Our Verdict
These cards are Visa cards which are limited to working at merchants who code within their category. For example, the grocery Visa card will only work at grocery stores.
They aren’t nearly as useful as ordinary Visa gift cards, though they do have the advantage of a lower fee of just $4.95 per $200 card. If you have a way of unloading these easily, you’ll be netting $5.10 on each 2 x $200 purchased, plus of course you’ll get the bonus office supply credit card rewards points with Chase INK or a different card.
Some grocery stores and gas stations might sell money orders, or you can buy other gift cards at the grocery/gas as well, e.g. Amazon gift cards or whatever. It’s also a good deal for someone who simply spends a lot in one of these categories, e.g. if you eat out a lot – you’ll lock in a 1.2% discount + 5x rewards by going this route.
There is a limit of one for this deal which means you presumably can’t do more than one of this deal in a single transaction. Depending on your store velocity limits and your liquidation thresholds, it might make sense to buy $200 + $100 cards instead of two $200s.
Reader Phill also notes you can get an additional $5 discount on a purchase at Office Max/Depot by using Google or Samsung Pay along with Paypal. Note, this might not get you an office supply coding on the credit card.
There’s also another deal being advertised in the weekly circular to get 5% back in store rewards when you buy $50+ in the following gift card brands: Office Depot/Max, Kohl’s, Macy’s, Bath & Body Works, Bed Bath & Beyond, Michael’s, and Sephora.
Hat tip to JH and to reader Phill
Been hitting my Ink Cash card pretty hard with the last few deals. What is the best way to find out how much of my 25k yearly 5x limit I have hit?
If you go to your UR portal, it’ll tell you. It’s got a column on the right that says “your cash back to date”. Just don’t forget to factor in the purchases that haven’t yet been credited to UR ie: purchases from your current billing cycle.
I always thought ink cash was 25k limit also. But the limit is $1000(100k pts) which is 20k.
That’s the additional 4x…you still get the 1x. It’s kind of a misnomer.
How much $ do you hazzard to run on these in a week? I’ve got 2x ink cash and, due to the rumors of shutting down UR pooling, I’ve been trying to meet my $25K max pretty quickly. My Walmart is starting to crack down, limiting to 2 swipes starting today and taking IDs. I’m starting to get a bit nervous that this is the end for MS for me (and I think I’m a lightweight).
where you located?
Las Vegas
Just did 4 swipes at WM today cashier said customer need to inform them that they’re using GC’s to prevent money laundering but can be used.
Also if you’re trying to hit 25k I’d do the staples promo doing 2k per day. Much easier.
I have hit that pretty hard. My regular lady wanted to let me do it but she had another lady hanging over her shoulder not liking it one bit. Before today, I hadn’t mentioned gift cards but the machine broke mid-printing and they needed to verify card numbers to give me a refund. They didn’t seem to care.
I don’t know what kind of issue they had today, but I bought a few cards and none were active after I bought them. I had to take them back to return and it took them about an hour fooling around and calling them to finally refund me with a different SKU since the cards are non-refundable.
Do these gift cards count against minimum spend requirement for chase ink cash cards?
Works for me. Earned 5X rewards plus got my 50,000 bonus for meeting the minimum spend.
DP: Bought 2 x $200 grocery everywhere VGCs and used for MO at Kroger no problem
My nearest OD only carries Movies and Dining cards. Useless for me.
Gotta switch to Staples this week.
This might sound like a stupid question, and I’m not trying to insult your intelligence, but did you check every side of the gift card rack? I was ready to walk out of my local OD because I though they didn’t have the Grocery ones, but they were just on a different side of the rack than the Movie/Dining ones.
Same at one then I went to another that had literally everyone except grocery. I hate doing the $200’s at WM my local grocery is much easier for me and the $200’s lol
I’ll add my DP from today. Style Everywhere and Grocery Everywhere work for MO and Serve loads at WM– I liquidated $1200 earlier today.
Movies Everywhere, Entertainment Everywhere and Fuel Everywhere do NOT work for MO at any locations.
Any DP on dining? Thanks
Saw DPs saying dining works for MO at WM but it did not work for me today.
Grocery, dining and style all worked for me at Super WM doing BB reloads.
Now if I could just learn how to add more than $200 in a single transaction without locking down the register.
Worked for me
Can we use multiple gift cards for a single MO?
Yes should be 4? Anyone have a DP of doing 4?
Works at Walmart in Chicago. WM lets me use maximum of four cards in a money order transaction–once a day. Last four numbers on card are the pin number
Will the Dining Everywhere VGC work in Walmart or Kroger for purchasing MOs?
Most likely not. The ones that there are DP’s for working there are Grocery and Style. So Movies, Dining, and Fuel likely would not work for that. All OD’s should have Grocery and Style though if they aren’t on the shelf they’re likely in a box with the other extra GC’s.
Dining, grocery, style works at walmart. Confimed by me.
Dining worked for you? WM super center or neighborhood market? Thanks
They work at WM SuperCenter for certain
So I can’t buy these for amex delta gold’s spend limit? Do they really enforce it?
I really wouldn’t unless you want the RAT on you 😉
haha. cmon man. were u just born yesterday? read up more if u want to play the game…
The grocery or fashion ones work at WM for MOs. I’ve been using them without issue whenever there is a deal.