[Expired] Office Depot/Max: $15 Instant Discount with $300 in Visa Gift Cards [11/19-11/25]

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[11/19/17: Reposting since it’s now live.]

The Offer

Direct Link (weekly ad)

  • Get a $15 instant discount on the purchase of $300 in Visa gift cards at Office Depot/Max

The Fine Print

  • Limit one (1) offer per customer.
  • Discount applied at register.
  • Offer Valid 11/19/17 to 11/25/17.
  • Purchase fees apply.
  • Offer valid in store on Visa® Gift Cards only.
  • Subject to availability.
  • One offer per transaction.
  • The Visa Gift Card is issued by Metabank, Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. Valid only in the U.S. and No Cash Access or Recurring payments.

Our Verdict

The fee for a $200 Visa gift card is $6.95. Buy two of them for a negative cost of $398.90 and rack up 2,000 Ultimate Rewards points on your Chase INK Cash/Plus. You also get 2% back in Office Depot/Max rewards if you’re enrolled, though rewards are capped at $200 in spend per quarter on gift cards ($4).

Recently, these ‘limit 1’ deals have actually been limited to one per transaction. Here’s wishing you a nice cashier and a lot of INK points! There’s also a rebate deal at Staples this week.

Hat tip to SD

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Sam
Sam (@guest_521577)
November 22, 2017 08:00

Interesting thing……I went to OD last night to purchase 2 VGCs in 2 transactions. cashier took my ID and CC and started calling some online merchant number for purchasing GCs and said my card is declined. I walked away, no point wasting my time there…..is this something new?

Sully
Sully (@guest_520724)
November 21, 2017 11:04

I couldn’t find it advertised on the weekly ad website, in the printed copies in store, or any signage at the gift card rack, but the $15 did come off when purchasing two $200 VGC variables yesterday. I’ll be heading back as the store had a few dozen on the rack. Thanks again DoC!

Castro
Castro (@guest_520373)
November 20, 2017 20:55

I’ve purchased both the variable and fixed $200 VGCs and only the variable GCs provided the instant discount. Anyone else experienced this?

Also do everywhere cards work at Stop & Shop and Family Dollar?

Tony
Tony (@guest_520791)
November 21, 2017 12:39

Same here. No discount for fixed $200 VGCs.

lisa
lisa (@guest_519394)
November 20, 2017 01:49

had no problem doing back to back transactions of (2) $200 VGC. the $15 came off no problem.

JJ
JJ (@guest_521654)
November 22, 2017 10:20

Same for me. Back to back transactions 2 x $200 on each transaction.

Kien
Kien (@guest_519348)
November 19, 2017 23:27

Tried to use a $500 Visa GC to pay for two $200 ones but the register kept declining my transaction. It was ran as a credit and when it asked for a pin, I hit cancel and it wouldn’t run through. I was told to use a real credit card which I ended up doing and it worked fine. I didn’t assign a pin to my card so I didn’t have it handy. The cashier told me that you cannot use a debit Gift card to pay for these. Is that true or I did something wrong?

Rye
Rye (@guest_519384)
November 20, 2017 01:19

Why would you use a VGC to purchase these? You’ll need 2 extra swipes to drain and you don’t gain anything other than $2.

jd
jd (@guest_520388)
November 20, 2017 21:12

yeah why would you? I don’t understand.

Nicole
Nicole (@guest_519341)
November 19, 2017 23:09

Entire Connecticut doesn’t have a Office Depot or a office max. Strange to see that….

Ken
Ken (@guest_519344)
November 19, 2017 23:14

Up until last year or so all of Colorado didn’t have a single CVS. The difference is that all office stores are circling the drain and CVS is growing like weeds.

baboo
baboo (@guest_519267)
November 19, 2017 21:20

1) do these count toward amex minimum spend?
2) do they come with pin to turn into money orders?

TheMonkeyTech
TheMonkeyTech (@guest_519186)
November 19, 2017 18:05

Another OfficeMax doesn’t even carry variable Visas any longer, only fixed amounts up to $100. Supervisor said there’s been a lot of fraud over the years and they don’t want to deal with any variable cards. For some reason though they don’t experience much fraud with fixed 100 cards?

TheMonkeyTech
TheMonkeyTech (@guest_519181)
November 19, 2017 18:02

Went to OfficeDepot just as they opened. Had to reciprocate flirtatious behavior with some old middle aged cashier. I feel dirty but you gotta do what you gotta do. She let me ring up 10 cards in 5 separate transactions. I wanted to push for more but people in line were looking at me suspiciously already…

Went back after lunch and nabbed the last 6. The OfficeDepot near me is completely depleted of variable visa cards already. Cashier told me they don’t stock much to begin with, usually have around 2-3 packs on hand (each pack contains 10 variable).

jd
jd (@guest_520394)
November 20, 2017 21:16

make sure you use protection.

Al
Al (@guest_523664)
November 24, 2017 12:53

Tried to do 2 separate transax, but the cashier said only can do one. Solely due to an obnoxious guy who came in during a previous similar deal and found a newbie cashier who let him buy all they had (took about an hour). Cashier was fired and now “only 1 offer per customer.” There’s always the obnoxious greedy one that ruins it for everyone else.

TJ
TJ (@guest_519146)
November 19, 2017 16:52

I’m in NYC this week and there are no OD/OM around so I left my CC to my friend and he was able to buy $2k worth of cards for me. One girl didn’t care and let him ring up 5 orders.

I used it for the $250 bonus if you spend 2k and upgrade BCE to BCP. I’ve also put about $700-$800 extra of organic spend on the card as well. I bought an Apple Watch. 😛