In addition to waiving the purchase fee on Visa gift cards bought in-store this week, Staples is also waiving purchase fees for digital Visa gift cards sold online.
The Deal
- Buy $200 virtual Visa gift cards with no purchase fee at Staples.com.
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- Expires October 25, 2025 or while supplies last.
- Limit 4.
Quick Thoughts
There’s a limit of five listed, but if you try buying $1,000 worth it won’t let you, so you have to reduce the total to four cards costing $800.
This promotion is scheduled to end on October 25, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it sells out sooner than that, so it might be better to buy ASAP.
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Will a portal work as well?
anyone know if these can be loaded onto apple pay?
My order was canceled because they “require additional information.” They did not share what that was. No additional information was needed for them to begin spamming me.
This was the first time I tried ordering gift cards from Staples online. You have to create an account to purchase. Gift card delivery is not instant but promised within 24 hours
I’ve been buying these this week and using them immediately to pay some property tax bills. My Chase ink pending points show 5x on them. If you buy them too frequently, you will get shut down by Staples so I’ve been keeping them to just a couple orders per day.
What’s the velocity you can buy these? 5 per day? P2 and I each have a CIC card. I already have a staples.com account and P2 can create one.
Million $ question – does this code as office supply for chase ink cash 5x points?
yes I have done this before exact same deal
Yes but my million $ question is really which CB portals sometimes work with these?
Does it code as office supply?
yes with the chase ink business
Can someone explain why this is a good deal? So it looks like from this I can by a $200 digital card for $200 and I don’t have to pay the $7+ purchase fee. Um ok but $200 for $200 isn’t anything special?
5 x points with chase cash. You can then pay utility bills or car insurance, etc… that you might normally pay with a checking account with the gift cards. This is easy “money” and no trip to the store which is a time saver.
Ah got it thanks @Paul.
@Stephen it might help to include that detail in this (and in these posts in general), for those of us who are still new to the site?
What happens if your Utility Bill or Car Insurance bill is more than the amount of the card? I would love to buy these, but don’t know how to combine them into one big amount to pay bills that are over the $200 card threshold. If anyone can share some of their knowledge with me on how to do that, it would be much appreciated.
Can’t speak for others, but the payment processor for my utility company allows me to set how much I want to pay, and it can be less than the total of the bill.
Second option would be to load the GC to your utility account as a credit balance before your bill posts.
I’m currently sitting on a $195 credit balance with my utility provider.
YMMV
I do the same as Craig. Prepay certain bills especially ones that don’t charge a debit fee. I pre-paid 6 months of vehicle insurance ($2000) with gift cards over time. I did the same with Medicare.
Does anyone know if this would code as office supply on Amex or as a third party gift card issuer like Blackhawk etc?
can these be added to apple/android pay wallet ?
I have been unable to find a merchant that accepts a $25 version of this virtual gift card (which I have activated and checked the balance of online).
Does anyone have suggestions as to where it can be used online?
Have you tried Amazon? Also, when adding it as a payment method the retailer might do a temporary $1 hold to check that it’s valid. That might prevent you from using the card straight away as it no longer looks like it has the full $25 available. If you do add it to Amazon, give it a day or two and then try using it and you’ll hopefully have more luck.
If you have utility bills, try that.