Office Depot and OfficeMax stores have returned with its profitable gift card deal on Visa gift cards through 4/19/25.
The Deal
- Buy $300+ Visa gift cards at Office Depot/OfficeMax & get $15 off instantly.
Key Terms
- Valid April 13-19, 2025.
- Limit 10 per household/business (different stores may try to impose various limits that don’t correspond to the ad).
Quick Thoughts
As always with these deals, the best option is to buy in three card increments as Office Depot/Max gives a $15 discount for every $300 you spend. Buying three cards means you’re spending $600, which takes off $30. Buying nine cards means you should get $90 off, but YMMV as to whether a store will let you do that.
For every three cards you buy you’ll pay $23.85 in fees (3x$7.95), giving you a net $6.15 in profit in addition to any additional rewards. Buying nine cards at a time triples both the profit and rewards (but will likely involve an ID check to make sure that the payment that you’re using is yours).
In addition, it’s worth keeping an eye out for linked offers that might stack.
H/T: Joe
Past Office Max/Office Depot $15 off $300 deals
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This VISA promo is non-existent in Minnesota at this time.
Thanks! What a bummer. We no longer have staples here and now this. 🙁
I called multiple Office Max in the MN area I live in and no one seems to know about this visa gift card deal for April. 🙁
I was just going to report the same!!
Don’t understand, if the fee per card is $7.95 and you buy three $100 cards. Your total fees are $23.85. You save only $15 by buying the three cards. How do you have a $6.15 profit and not an $8.85 loss?
1) It makes the most sense if you buy in increments of $600 (three $200 cards). The fee is $23.85, but you get $30 back in discounts, so. you make a $6.15 “profit” , but
2) the main reason people do it is to use a credit card with 5x points for office supply stores. So you get ~ 3000 points for that ~$600 spend, and points like that CAN be beneficial, IF you have reasonable things that you would use a credit card to spend on anyway. For example: my natural gas, electricity, internet, cell phone bill, insurance payments don’t have a fee to use a debit/credit card.
Does this work for online purchases?
Nope, it doesn’t work. Also, if you’re trying to do it for points, it won’t trigger them—their online gift cards are handled by a third party, so the merchant code doesn’t show up as office supply.
This worked for me. I spoke to the OD manager and he said they didn’t get a flyer or any notification last week about MC GCs but he did ask if I wanted to buy them.
and it might’ve worked. Maybe next time.
Would purchasing two cards, each in a $500 denomination, trigger the $15 threshold three times? Thinking it’s easier to deal with fewer cards.
cards are sold as $20-$200. you cannot purchase two cards that equal $500. and the answer to your question is No.
Actually, the answer was no, but not for your reason. They had 3 of the $500 fixed value Visas on the rack. Tried to buy all three but the CSR could not activate any of them. Must have been inventory from the “olden days” before (almost) everting was supplanted by the $20-200 variables. This suggests my small town OD doesn’t have many people playing this game.
Good to live in a town where you do not have to compete for the OD deals. I have never seen a $500 Visa GC at OD. I do see $500 Visa gc’s at Staples.
Your post says “Valid March 16 – February 22, 2025” — need to change February to March 🙂
when I buy these $200 visa cards at our OD store they add taxes… It does not come so after tax I pay $594 for 3 cards. Is every state charges taxes on Visa/Master gift cards?
That is the registration fee, not tax. $594 is correct.
Does it need to be the $200 card? The local store offers Visa cards which can be loaded with $20-$200
Works
Thanks!
Does Office Depot code gift card purchases in a way that enables 5% points on Chase Ink CASH cards and the US Bank business 3% card?
I am not sure about the US Bank, but yes for Chase.
I bought in because I need to make up some spend before the end of the year. My store only had $100 dollar cards. So I bought 6 so I didn’t fully cover the activation fee but the activation was only $6.95 so all together it was $1.95 a card. Those $200 dollar cards are a unicorn find!
In some stores they are plentiful, as I find when I go out of town. But my only local ODOM seems to “forget to stock” the $200s (Visa and MC) when they go on sale when they are not profitable for the store. I don’t stop by often because my local Staples store is far more reliable. It is indeed a unicorn find when the $200s are on the rack on the Sunday/monday of sale week. $100 cards (and 50s) are always available but I don’t bother with them.
As always when this deal comes around, check your Chase cards for offers. My Ink Cash is offering 5% off, $10 max right now. Others may or may not, worth a quick look. These have always tracked for me.
stores haven’t filled visa gift card since last visa card promo. what’s going on…
In addition, it’s worth keeping an eye out for linked offers that might stack.
I have the Amex Bus Gold card and its $20 credit at office supply stores, if I did this purchase would the credit stack with the 15% discount.
Here is my small town with 2 OD stores, there is limited supply.
it is much better to be in small town, less competition and lesser asshole od employees.