Office Depot/OfficeMax: Buy $300+ Visa Gift Cards, Save $15

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Office Depot and OfficeMax stores have returned with its profitable gift card deal on Visa gift cards through 7/12/25.

a close-up of a gift card

The Deal

  • Buy $300+ Visa gift cards at Office Depot/OfficeMax & get $15 off instantly.

Key Terms

  • Valid July 6-12, 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: Doctor of Credit

Past Office Max/Office Depot $15 off $300 deals

  • June 8-14, 2025
  • May 11-17, 2025
  • April 13-19, 2025
  • March 16 – March 22, 2025
  • February 16-22, 2025
  • January 19-25, 2025
  • December 22-28, 2024
  • November 24-30, 2024
  • October 27-November 2, 2024
  • September 29- October 5, 2024
  • September 1-7, 2024
  • August  4-10, 2024
    July 7-13, 2024
  • Valid June 9-15, 2024
  • Valid May 12-18, 2024
  • Valid April 14-20, 2024
  • Valid February 18-24, 2024
  • Valid January 21-27, 2024
  • Valid December 24-30, 2023
  • October 29th to November 4th, 2023
  • October 1st to October 7th, 2023
  • September 3rd to September 9th, 2023
  • August 6th to August 12th, 2023
  • July 7th to July 15th, 2023
  • June 11th to June 17th, 2023
  • May 14th to May 20th, 2023
  • April 14th to April 22nd, 2023
  • March 19th to March 25th, 2023
  • February 19th to February 25th, 2023
  • January 22nd to January 28th, 2023
  • December 18th to December 24th, 2022.
  • November 12th to November 18th, 2022.
  • August 28th to September 3rd, 2022.
  • July 4th to August 6th 2022.
  • May 21st to May 28th 2022.
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CJH

thanks for this information.

Avi

Does Amex card if you buy these while working on a sign up bonus on a new card?

CJH

what are you saying?

Rob

Thank you for letting us know!

Sleep Deprived

What is the most number of discounts anyone has received on one purchase? I’ve bought as many as $1800 worth of gift cards, which triggers six $15 discounts. The ad says that there is a limit of 10 per customer, which I assume means that you could buy $3000 worth of $200 gift cards, and triggered 10 $15 discounts. Has anyone tried?

Big Dave

Last month I bought $3K worth of $200 VGCs. Discount was $150. Fee was $119.25 ($7.95 x 15). Net cost was $2,969.25.

Sleep Deprived

Excellent! Thanks for the confirmation.

Robert

Confirmed working today in south Florida for visa

David

Will Barclays Hawaiian Miles card treat gift card purchases from Office Depot as a cash advance?

Scott

Does Chase Care if you buy these while working on a sign up bonus on a new card?

Saskia

They don’t care. Chase can’t see exactly what you’re buying.

Lori Leadmon

Local Office Depot didn’t offer and actually said they never have offers such as this 🙁

Arsan Lupin

They lied. Seriously. Some store managers are offended the GC’s are used as we use them (to pay bills and shop), even though it’s legal. It can be a problem. More than once they actually tried to falsely accuse me of fraud. It’s all to fondle their sanctimonious self-righteousness in public. I called a cop, then filed a complaint. He was gone when I returned.

CJH

Where I live the 2 OD stores have 1 Visa GC. Maybe Blackhawk will send inventory.

Arsan Lupin

They lied. Seriously. Some store managers are offended the GC’s are used as we use them (to pay bills and shop), even though it’s legal. It can be a problem. More than once they actually tried to falsely accuse me of fraud. It’s all to fondle their sanctimonious self-righteousness in public. I called a cop, then filed a complaint. He was gone when I returned.

ROWYCO

The mob or similar in DFW area go in to all the stores that allow them to buy out the whole lot. Assuming they have system to resell or wash the cash while getting the 5% with a card. So assuming they get most their money back or have a way to wash them plus racking up tons of points and turn those. Sucks the regular guys can’t get their hands on them since they all go to bad actors. Maybe those guys that try to rip off elderly folks with gift card scams use them for that racket.

Arsan Lupin

The published limit is ten per customer.

Rwillough

The deal is not active where I live…tried to ring it up and it didn’t take off the fee

Arsan Lupin

It won’t appear until the final screen before payment is applied. They can show line items w/o discount – UNTIL the summary is displayed.

A common scam they use because this “offends” the occasional store manager with ideas of his own. Some even falsely imply it’s not quite legal. They always back down when called out.

Lisa

This VISA promo is non-existent in Minnesota at this time.

Monica

Thanks! What a bummer. We no longer have staples here and now this. 🙁

Monica

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. 🙁

Last edited 2 months ago by Monica
Lisa

I was just going to report the same!!

Joel

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?

Michael

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.

Dave

Does this work for online purchases?

Monica

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.

Dave

Thanks!