There is a new targeted Amex Offer for $25 off $100 at Staples.com through 2/7/15. To see if you are targeted, login to your American Express account.
Important: Before saving the offer, check to see if any of your other cards within the same online account have the same offer. If so, open two browser tabs and show each card’s offer on a separate tab before clicking “Save Offer”. This way, you can save the offer to multiple cards. If you don’t do it this way, the offer will disappear from your other cards once you save the offer to the first one.
Offer Terms & Exclusion
The terms specifically exclude the purchase of electronic or physical gift cards, however similar language has appeared in the past. I have confirmed that the purchase of Visa gift cards does trigger the “Congrats! You just used your Amex Offer” email.
Act Fast
Offers like these have reached the maximum number of registrations very quickly in the past. I recommend loading the offer to your card(s) as soon as possible.
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I just added to $25 reward for $100 Staples spend on my AMEX cards and bought eBay $100 GC. I went though iConsumer. I have already gotten the congrats Amex using offer email. Has anyone gotten cashback from a portal for buying a third party GC from Staples? If so which one?
Incredible story there. Whatt occurred after? Thanks!
Placed an order for two items at staples.com. Staples billed them on consecutive days instead of together. Since they are below $100 each – no $25 rebate – did receive the email congratulating me on using the Amex offer. Very disappointing….
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You will have to call Gift Card Mall to get them activated. Then wait two hours to use. I used different accounts (spouse) as well as mine. Different cards and email addresses. However, I just had to verify address cards were sent to and name. They then activated the cards. I have liquidated the cards already and got 4 bonuses. Nice 5 minutes worth of work.
It appears now that the biggest problem with this deal is not the AmEx, but the fact that Staples does not provide Activation Numbers. GC’s come inactive and are just worthless pieces of plastic until they’re activated.
Does anyone have advice or share their experiences on getting those Activation Numbers? It may be especially tricky for those who used several family members to get the AmEx credits, and may now need to get them all involved in this activation mess.
I agree this is troubling. Even though it doesn’t take too long to call Gift Card Mall, it is still a hassle. Unfortunately it does seem that the activation codes are not being sent out at all. They are missing on about my last 20 or so orders going back about two months.
This is quite annoying. I’ve been waiting for the codes to arrive and was just thinking that I should call today since it’s been over 2 weeks since my order. I now have 14 cards between my wife and I from this deal and need to call to activate. I guess I’ll just call with my wife next to me so that we can hopefully accomplish all at once. I don’t like the way gift card mall does this. Email delivery of the code seems safe enough to me.
Saved 4 of 4 offers to my AMEX Cards, redeemed all 4 and received four credits back from AMEX, THANKS!
Did anyone else notice under the posted Amex charge on your Amex online account, it says “Visa Gift Card $200” and then “6.95 Visa Gift Card Fee”. Maybe Amex has a fix for not awarding the $25 on gift cards like they said. The last Staples offer did not specifically exclude physical gift cards.
I purchased my staples $100 visa gift card on Jan 9th. Received the confirmation AmEx Offers email right after. Still haven’t seen the credit come through, but will be patient.
Anyone else get the $25 credit? Got all the emails but no credit yet and it’s been nearly a week :/
I received my credit today, so it should be posting soon.
Can you use a shopping portal to buy the gift cards from staples?
Unfortunately Staples stopped paying out through portals for the purchase of gift cards last year.
I purchased a Target GC on two of my AMEX cards and immediately got the email from Amex confirming I had used the promotion on both. However, I do have a question. How long does it take Staples to deliver the e giftcards? I made the purchase yesterday and still have not received the actual email delivery of the gift cards.
The amount of time varies. It often takes about a day.
Also related. The sony 25 of 100 amex offer. You can buy $100 egift card, go through fatwallet, and after 25 off plus 3 cash back your cost is 72, then sell to online gift card sites that accept e gift cards for 73 for 1 profit plus points. Just had my $25 from amex post for that.
Thanks for the data point Michelle!