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Update 3/28/24: Deal is back from 3/31 – 4/6 (ht kawnipi)
The Offer
Direct link to offer (search Visa; not yet live)
- Staples stores will be offering fee-free Visa gift cards this week.
The Fine Print
- Limit 8 per customer per day.
- Offer valid in store only.
Our Verdict
As always remember to use a card that earns at a high rate on office supply store purchases. Or stack with a Chase Offer or use your Amex Business Gold for the $20 office supply credit.
Deal History:
- Update 2/29/24: Deal is back from 3/3-3/9.
- Update 2/1/24: Deal is coming back for 2/4 – 2/10; limit 8 (ht gcgalore)
- Update 1/4/24: Deal is coming back for 1/7 – 1/13; limit 8 (ht kawnipi)
- Update 12/7/23: Deal is back from 12/10 – 12/16
- Update 11/9/23: Deal is coming back for the week of 11/12 – 11/18; limit 8 (ht kawnipi)
- Update 10/12/23: Deal is coming back for the week of 10/15 – 10/21 (ht kawnipi)
- Update 9/14/23: Deal is coming back for the week of 9/17 – 9/23 (ht kawnipi)
- Update 8/17/23: Deal is back for 8/20 – 8/26 (ht kawnipi)
- Update 7/20/23: Deal is back 7/23 – 7/29
- Update 6/22/23: Deal is back 6/25 – 7/1
- Update 5/25/23: Deal is back and valid 5/28 – 6/3
- Update 4/27/23: Deal is back and valid 4/30 – 5/6. (ht kawnipi) This begins after the Mastercard deal ends on Saturday.
- Update 3/30/23; Deal is back and valid until 4/2 – 4/8.
- Update 3/2/23: Deal is back 3/5 – 3/11. Hat tip to GC Galore
- Update 1/5/23: Deal is back and valid 1/8 – 1/14
- Update 9/22/22: Deal is coming back *begins* September 25th, valid through October 1st. Limit 8. (ht kawnipi)
- Update 9/1/22: Deal is coming back for September 4th through September 10th. Higher limit of 8 this time. (ht kawnipi)
- Update 2/24/22: Deal is back and valid from 2/27 – 3/5
- Update 5/5/22: Deal is coming back for May 8th through May 14th.
- Update 8/4/22: Deal is back and valid 8/7 – 8/13
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Hi Davis, Can you explain how to receive 2 SB per $ spent at Staples?
sorry, you can only do that online at staples.com. i posted initially on the wrong page
The Chase app, UR Shop With Chase, is currently offering 2pts/$ spent at Staples.com but the fine print says it excludes gift cards. Does anyone know if this means the Visa cards are therefore excluded from the offer? This is my first foray into this way of earning pts. Thanks.
Anyone know when the Amex biz gold Monthly credit shows? I messed up and bought on the last day of the month, but hoping it’ll post this month and I’ll get this months credit
Can the balance on the gift card be transferred back to the bank directly or via Venmo?
asking the same
My Venmo got shut down after that. And I’m on their blacklist now so I can no longer have venmo. Using Cash App now which is fantastic.
Could you please explain how you used the CASH app to transfer? What was the process like? And why wasnt it allowed by VENMO
Thanks
No, that would be too much easy money!
I wish they’d do this for the variable load card.
Oh, well, I am down to 2 from last time, so it is time to buy a few more.
For any of you reading, if you are a wife who plays these deals and is initiated in our clan, good for you, I applaud the few of you. The rest of all of you, just a warning, don’t ask your wife to do any deal, ever. If Staples opened at a normal Sunday hour, at 9/10am instead of 12pm when I’m asleep (I’m currently on night shift) I would have done this myself. So I asked my wife to do it. I specifically said to get VISA. That’s it. 3x$200 VISA, not $100’s, just the $200 variant. She ended up getting 3x$200 MC with the fee. The VISA’s were cleaned out, of course, by 330pm when she went, and the MasterCard display from last week was still up. She noticed it said expired 3/30 but went ahead and bought them anyway with the advice of the guys behind the desk, who thought they were all the same – told her the system was to blame and to call to get it fixed after the purchase.
If you absolutely must ask your wife to do a deal, you MUST provide exact details of what to do and what NOT to do. Do not just say “get X, thank you!”. Say “get X, do not get Y. It should cost A, if you see any fees B C D then you are doing something wrong. Do not believe anything the people at the desk say, this is the deal.”
There’s that saying for drunk driving. Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. Well, friends here don’t let friends get burnt on deals.
That’s not exclusive to wives. Just saying. 🙂
ROFL. Yeah
Celia , trust me, over the last 25 years of me doing deals, I’ve made plenty of mistakes, just my mistakes have been a result of thinking I’m smarter than the system and thinking I can squeeze out a few bucks more, as opposed to failing to use logic and reading directions. I literally said “VISA”…sigh.
Examples from my years of deals:
* During the era of product rebates at Best Buy / Circuit City / Staples et. Al, there were a couple instances of me buying more than was allowed, rebate denied.
* I just recently failed on the December Chase 5% Walmart.com cash back deal. I bought a $100 eGift card which shows up not as “Walmart.com” but as “Walmart eGift Card”, to which Chase customer support promptly denied my request for resolution. I never had a problem before, and Wells Fargo triggered the same purchase fine. Missed out on $5, sigh. Going forward, only physical gift cards.
* I tried signing up for the BOA Checking account during that short period of time when they offered the $250 link in your account. I knew it was limited to three states (WV, KY and one other one, maybe IA?), but I figured I’d try to be smarter and still do it (I’m in VA). Didn’t get the bonus, of course. If I just had tried to be normal and did the regular $200 deal, I’d have been $200 richer.
I think Celia was trying to be tactful in telling you to stop assuming all P1s are male
I’m going to guess that 90+% of the traffic to DoC is male. And of those males who are married, probably two thirds to 75% of them are married to wives like mine who think all the work we do in deal hunting is fruitless and a waste of time. And for those males out there in a similar situation to mine, just do the deals yourself and don’t get your wife involved.
No, you still don’t get it. You talk about wives, the rest of us talk about P1/P2 and spouses. But by all means, keep digging.
I must congratulate you on warning us about the dangers our wives put us through every day. I also wish you good luck if your wife ever finds this post. I hope she does not read the DoC.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
yay casual misogyny
I would say that your 90% figure is way too high. Maybe a poll is in order.
Perhaps
Eric . https://www.similarweb.com/website/doctorofcredit.com/#geography says it is 54%, which I think is far too low.
That’s an interesting website that you found. Only
William Charles would know if some of the other figures (ie revenue and total visits) are accurate to know if these #s could be trusted.
Not remotely accurate
I didn’t think so. That’s why I tagged you so you could check out what they are “reporting” over there.
Or maybe your mysogynistic tendencies are far higher than you estimate, lol
Mine thought that way until I started flying her first class to Europe
Has anyone used multiple gc’s to make a larger online purchase? Do most online retailers allow paying for something with several gift cards?
It works for different types of bills, such as taxes, medical, and insurance. As far as an online purchase for merchandise, you would have to check with the individual retailer. From my experience, most will only accept one card.
What you could do is buy one larger store gift card from several smaller Visa gift cards, i.e., buy $1000 Costco gift card in store using 5 $200 Visa gift cards, then use that $1000 gift card online.
I just noticed that the retailer I wanted to buy from only accepts credit card, paypal, or klarna so it does look like think they would take multiple smaller cards.
I think I might just buy them to use at costco. That way I would be getting 5% back everytime if I buy the gc’s with Chase ink
My insurance company, Mercury, only lets you use two cards to make one payment, so I generally used the period when the $500s are available at 5x categories from drug or grocery stores for this.
A few retailers will let you use multiple credit/debit cards but not many. Ones that come to mind are Dell (3 cards max I think) and Sam’s Club. Another strategy I use is adding to a balance on their gift cards. Amazon combines gift cards you add to your account and you can then pay from that balance. Nearly all sites I can think of you can use their own store gift card (and sometimes multiple ones) with an additional credit/debit card. So if you are getting something above 200 just buy a gift card for the first 200 and then use a second card to pay the remainder.
Might be worth looking at the fine print in more detail but several Chase credit cards are giving 10% back, up to $17 for a Staples purchase.
All my Chase offers for Staples are online only right now.
I’m new with Chase Ink and Gift Cards. Does Chase frown upon making gift Card purchase only my account. I’m thinking of only doing these gift card purchases exclusively to my Chase Ink account (no other purchases)
I did other purchases when I first got my Chase Ink Business Cash, but now it is pretty much only just gift cards at Staples unless there is a good Chase Offer for the credit card.
Even though it is a “business” credit card, it still gets Chase Offers.
Chase doesn’t care. When I first got my card they declined my transaction thinking something weird was going on but called them from the store and had them let the next swipe through
Does anyone know if the chase 10% online offer is triggered if the gift cards are purchased in Staples store?
You have answered your own question. One is in-store, one is on-line.
Thanks, I was just trying my luck!