Office Depot and OfficeMax stores have returned with its profitable gift card deal on Visa gift cards through 2/22/25.
The Deal
- Buy $300+ Visa gift cards at Office Depot/OfficeMax & get $15 off instantly.
Key Terms
- Valid February 16 – February 22, 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.
See the full list of Visa and Mastercard gift card deals here
H/T: Doctor of Credit
Past Office Max/Office Depot $15 off $300 deals
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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 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.
Went to OfficeMax today and was worried after reading the comments but shelf was completely full of the $200 cards! However they did check my ID even though I only got $600 worth.
Went to my Office Depot yesterday…no gift cards anywhere in store; asked employee where are the gift cards? He smiled (kinda like when you’re hiding something) and said they have been having “processing issues” and no gift cards are on sale. No hint of when they would return. You think they got hit by fraud and just decided to stop selling altogether? Is this allowed by corporate? Can we complain to corporate to get them back?
My two OD stores had inventory. Not much but there were Visa GC available.
My local store hasn’t stocked Visa gc for months…everytime I ask an employee they say the vendor isn’t stocking them and it’s up to the vendor. So annoying
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why not buy the $500 gc?
OD does not sell $500 GC.
I’m sorry but I am not getting the math here. If you’re paying $7.95 fee per $100 GC (for total of $23.85) and getting a $15 discount, how does that end up with a PROFIT of $6.15?? Don’t you actually end up paying $306.15 for the $300 GCs?
Visa GC is a variable $20-$200. so you purchase multiple Visa $200 gift card.
That still doesn’t give you a profit as the article clearly says. All it does it reduces the cost of the GCs.
Article says:
“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.”
This is either flat wrong or I am missing something here.
207.95 x 3 = $623.85-$30.00 discount=$593.85. or net $6.15 profit.
$15 discount per $300 Visa GC purchased. You need to purchase $600 and thereafter in $300 increments.
This makes sense now. It’s assuming a $600 purchase in $200 GCs, essentially leading to $5 off and $3.98 fee per $100, hence the profit. Thank you for breaking it down for me!
you would purchase in increments of three. 3 cards or 6 cards or 9 cards to maximize cash back.
Nice – just renewed our vehicle registrations as well as a title transfer on a new vehicle – using GC – was working on an Amex SUB ans our DEQ/DMV doesn’t take Amex – but CIC for 5X win.
I rarely go the GC route as most of our spend is bonused (grocery, dining, cell/nternet).
I suppose I could pay Insurance, trash, water, electric/gas with GC when we are between SUBs.
Nick – without your post I would have been unaware of the offer. I walked into my OD on Sunday expecting a GC sale. But there was no signage advertising, so I left. I was able to take advantage of the GC sale this Monday morning.
I have also noticed they have stopped advertising it in flyers as well.as in store.
You can also always cancel before payment if the discount doesnt show at subtotal – “oh wait – I’ll have to.come back I left calrd at home”.
good suggestions.