Please do not go in store unless it is to buy essentials. Self isolate whenever possible.
The Offer
No direct link, check your local store to find this offer
- Office Depot/Max are offering a $10 instant discount when you buy $150 in Visa gift cards this week.
The Fine Print
- Limit one (1) offer per household/business.
- Discount applied at register.
- Offer valid 4/5-4/11
- Offer valid in store on Visa Gift Cards only.
Our Verdict
This one is not showing up in the circular, but it’s appearing in stores. I wouldn’t recommend going out for this, but if you need to go out anyway this is a good deal. Office Depot/Max keep everybody safe and just offer this online.
Hat tip to @bobby212345
These are dead deals in my area for now. OD pulled all gift cards and are no longer selling them in the store until further notice (stores are still allowed to remain open in my part of KY).
I second that.
Not dead in my area. Bought one today.
I’m finding the same thing in St. Louis. I wonder if it’s just because of the virus? People at the store don’t seem to know why they were pulled, or are not saying. Oh well. At least Freedom has grocery stores this Q.
Hey Chris, the manager did confirm in my area that cards have been pulled due to covid-19. There was no timeframe on when gift cards would be put back on the floor for sale.
Absolutely agree on not going out for this promo (don’t forget about the $1000 cards from Simon Mall being available online now if you need to meet an MSR) but fingers crossed that the $150 threshold is just a one-time deal due to these particular times…
Where do you see the $1,000 Simon cards a available online?
Check DoC, was a popular article last week.
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/simon-mall-selling-1000-visa-giftcards-online-limit-of-25000-per-order/
Well even though Simon offers $1K VGCs, the CC points will only be 1x. The only reason this is useful is because people can buy the $200 VGCs and earn 5x. So there is definitely a difference here.
You can get 2x with Citi DC. I’m not sure whether AT&T AM will give 3x.
Yes I understand that Citi DC and Fidelity Visa give you 2x. I know I have both of those cards as well but still nothing beats 5x with Ink cards especially when they are fee free. I do Simon VGCs as well but its a bit tougher right now with the malls closed. Still have the $10 processing fee and luckily now there is a free ground shipping code or else it would be an additional $10+ for shipping.
does it work if you buy 10 cards on a single transaction? or I would have to do each $150 card separately ?
It’s limit one per person. So you would have to buy 1 card then go back again a tad bit later. I stop at a few stores to get my cards
I guess depending on your store? the last sale I got like 15
You can buy 10 cards in 1 transaction but the transaction will only take off $10 so it is kinda useless.
So OD and Governor decided, that for my state they only do curbside pickups of online orders. Locked the store, just put a table with the orders in front of the store and a single employee. Won’t re-open till May at the earliest… 🙁
Good for your Governor. Wish they all did that. Ours locked us down early but still allows places like Staples/OD to be open.
Isn’t it nice to live in a police state?
Usually it ends on Saturday so 4/11 instead of 4/12?
Yeah
Wondering if $200 card qualifies. Wondering if can get on line. IF so, stackable with 10% off web purchase from Citi?
Yes.
No.
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Why don’t they ever make this deal available online? Especially considering the pandemic. Time to get with the 21st century, Office Max…
Logistics. They probably don’t have the inventory in the central shipping location. Office Depot is not Amazon with warehouses all over the country.
Because doing it online would defeat the purpose of the deal, which is … to bring foot traffic to the store.
yet many of the odom he’uh in vuhginyah are offering curb site pick-up…. (and yah, will pick up some essentials while I’m there (but not quite) in the store…. if they have ’em
If you do this deal, please dig your grave and bury yourself after so that no one will be infected beyond you. Opps, you probably infected someone else before you dug your own grave. Don’t go!
Just chill out. We all know. Stay inside blah blah. Thanks Doc for always posting.
online or instore only?
In store. Too bad since it would work nicely with the 10x offer I got from Citi. i don’t even see Visa gift cards on the OD site.
I mean… I’ll take advantage of this if I’m out for essentials and near a store, so on that hand, I’m glad they’re running this deal. At the same time… 😬😬😬