The Offer
- Purchase $300 worth of Mastercard gift cards at Office Max and receive an instant $15 discount.
This offer isn’t published in the ads, but it’s showing up at Office Max stores.
You can purchase two $200 Mastercard gift cards and the total will come out to 398.90 after the $15 promo kicks in. Or you can buy one $200 card and one $100 card for $297.90.
You can then use the Mastercards to do things like load your REDbird card at Target or load your Bluebird/Serve at the Walmart Money Center ATM. (At the Walmart registers they don’t work as smoothly.) The PIN number comes on a little slip of paper inside the p
The Fine Print
- Valid 8/2/15/-8/8/15
- Be sure to check verify that your local store has this deal running
- Limit one per household/business
Stacking the Deal
Some of you may still have some Amex cards with a saved Amex Offer of $10 off $50 at Office Max/Depot and this deal can really make that offer worthwhile.
The best way to maximize this would be to split the payment between multiple Amex cards which have this offer. We know that the Office Depot POS allows us to split payment between at least 8 cards, but it’s unclear what the Office Max system will allow. [UPDATE: A reader reports that you can split at least 5 ways at Office Max.]
Our Verdict
This is a great deal for maximizing credit card rewards on the INK cards. And it’s awesome for using up those Amex Offers, as noted.
Be sure to head over there as soon as you can, before they run out of Mastercard gift cards. Since the offer goes on until 8/8/15, hopefully there will still be time for them to reload and give us another run on those cards.
Of course the big limit here is one-per-household, but that’s up to the cashier to enforce and you may get lucky there. For all we know, it could be that you can even do the deal twice in one transaction, but we assume that this won’t work since there’s a stated limit of one-per-household.
HT: Milestomemories and Orensmoneysaver
