Office Depot and OfficeMax stores have returned with its profitable gift card deal on Visa gift cards through 7/12/25.
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.
Past Office Max/Office Depot $15 off $300 deals
June 8-14, 2025May 11-17, 2025April 13-19, 2025March 16 – March 22, 2025February 16-22, 2025January 19-25, 2025December 22-28, 2024November 24-30, 2024October 27-November 2, 2024September 29- October 5, 2024September 1-7, 2024August 4-10, 2024
July 7-13, 2024Valid June 9-15, 2024Valid May 12-18, 2024Valid April 14-20, 2024Valid February 18-24, 2024Valid January 21-27, 2024Valid December 24-30, 2023October 29th to November 4th, 2023October 1st to October 7th, 2023September 3rd to September 9th, 2023August 6th to August 12th, 2023July 7th to July 15th, 2023June 11th to June 17th, 2023May 14th to May 20th, 2023April 14th to April 22nd, 2023March 19th to March 25th, 2023February 19th to February 25th, 2023January 22nd to January 28th, 2023December 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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thanks for this information.
Does Amex card if you buy these while working on a sign up bonus on a new card?
what are you saying?
Thank you for letting us know!
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?
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.
Excellent! Thanks for the confirmation.
Confirmed working today in south Florida for visa
Will Barclays Hawaiian Miles card treat gift card purchases from Office Depot as a cash advance?
Does Chase Care if you buy these while working on a sign up bonus on a new card?
They don’t care. Chase can’t see exactly what you’re buying.
Local Office Depot didn’t offer and actually said they never have offers such as this 🙁
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.
Where I live the 2 OD stores have 1 Visa GC. Maybe Blackhawk will send inventory.
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.
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.
The published limit is ten per customer.
The deal is not active where I live…tried to ring it up and it didn’t take off the fee
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.
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.
Thanks!