The Offer
No direct link to offer, via Miles To Memories
- Receive an instant $15 off when you purchase $300 or more of Visa gift cards from 12/18/2016 until 12/24/2016 from Office Depot or OfficeMax in store only.
The Fine Print
- Offer valid in store only 12/18/2016 until 12/24/2016.
- Discount applied at register.
- Limit of one per transaction
- The Visa® Gift Card is issued by MetaBank®, pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. MetaBank; Member FDIC.
Our Verdict
The limit is one per transaction, so that is kind of annoying.
We aren’t sure if/what the limit is (likely to be 1 or 2) this is sometimes enforced and sometimes not (e.g it’s hardcoded by the register but some cashiers will let you do multiple transactions in a row). They usually carry both $200 & $100 gift cards, this deal is much better if it’s a limit of two per transaction as you lower your fees ($4.95-$6.95 per card). As always, make sure to use a credit card that earns at a high rate on office supply purchases.
Also a good chance to use the $20 off $100+ American Express offer. According to our Payments Workshop you can split between at least 8 credit cards at Office Depot & at least 6 at Office Max. That means even if the limit is 2 discounts per transaction you could split between 6 American Express cards with that offer, you’d save $120 in AmEx Offers and then another $30 from this discount. I doubt people have the offer on that many cards though.
They offered a similar promotion in November, so reading the comments there might be useful.
Hat tip to Miles to Memories
Split tenders on gift card purchases strictly prohibited at ATL stores-enforced by store manager trained cashiers parroting, with clueless confidence, “fraud prevention”
Also noteworthy is that the $15 discount will not appear on the POS until after customer presses “Print” or “Email” option for receipt. Cashier pressing Total button alone will not deduct discount.
Is the Ink Cash $25000 5x limit totaled thru 12/31/16 or is it thru the Dec 2016 account closing date and where online can you see the total?
got to thinking: this is the first year i’m even plausibly getting close to my $50K yearly limit on the 5X purchases. Did the quick download and: $29.9K. So, if i had the Ink Cash, i’d be over the limit some time ago, but the AF pays off again!
All my OM/ODs are out of 200s. There isn’t even a spot on the GC rack for them. Wondering if the are phasing them out.
Five Back Visa Gift Cards get the discount. Tested this morning.
Cashier at OD would not let me split payment for 1x$100 and 1x$200 VGC for 2x$20 off $100 Amex offers. Said it was store policy. Anyone have luck with this strategy? Should I go back later and try another cashier?
Do 5 back work for this promo?
5 back worked for me at OD.
ughhh!! i just went yesterday to use the Amex offer for 3 of my cards!
Still a good deal even without the amex offer, looks like you need to go back 😀
I swung by 3 OM/OD. I was able to buy 3 sets of $400 at one OD, 2 sets of $400 at one OM, and one OD told me that there was a limit of one transaction for gift cards. Came away with 12,000 ultimate rewards and $30 for less than hour of my time.
I have two OD/OM in town. There is one manager at the one store who never allows credit card purchases on variable loads. Claims it’s illegal. No fixed Visas over $100 at my stores.
When I bought AMEX 100 dollars gift two weeks ago I was not given 20$ off for Office depot promotion, after short chat with amex representative he stated that merchant opted out of the promotion(not sure what it means).
I went to different office depot this morning and bought 2 more gift cards for 300 in total. Will see if I receive the bonus this time.
This should be an instant discount, so itshould have been less than $300 you were charged.