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There’s a new, targeted Chase Offer for Quill which can save you up to $25 on purchases. Even if you don’t need any office supplies, Quill does sell other items you might be interested in.
The Deal
- Get 10% back at Quill with a targeted Chase Offer.
Key Terms
- Expires November 25, 2021.
- Valid on multiple transactions until a $25 maximum is reached.
- Payment must be made directly with the merchant.
- Offer not valid on third-party delivery services.
Quick Thoughts
Quill is an online office supply store owned by Staples and, like Staples, sells a number of gift cards online. In addition to third party gift cards, you can buy Visa gift cards up to $300 in value, albeit with purchase fees of ~$9.
Buying a $300 Visa gift card will therefore make you $16 in profit, even before taking into account any points you’ll earn on any credit card(s) where you have this offer. I found it on my Chase Ink Plus card which means that I’ll also earn just over 1,500 Ultimate Rewards points on the purchase seeing as it earns 5x at office supply stores.
As always, it’s worth clicking through from a shopping portal just in case a gift card purchase tracks – here are the current portal rates for Quill.
Update: I wanted to share my experience of buying a gift card with this deal. There was a similar offer a few months ago that I tried taking advantage of, but they seemed to auto-cancel that order. I figured I’d try again with this new offer and so placed an order last night.
I received an email today advising that I needed to call Quill as there was a hold on my order due to an account issue. When calling, I was advised that my order had already been cancelled. The reason given by a couple of different reps is that they can’t sell gift cards on net-30 terms; that was strange because the payment option I selected when ordering was to pay instantly with my credit card rather than being invoiced for the gift card.
They put me through to a Customer Service rep who reinstated my order and processed payment, so the Visa gift card is due to arrive in 6-7 business days.
Something else to note is that you can only order gift cards if you have a business account. That’s as easy as changing the settings in your account from Personal to Business which is what I did the first time I tried to order a few months ago.
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Good offer, but frustrating. Based on my experience and the other comments it seems the ability to order these is somewhat random. Previously I could not despite setting up a business on the site — setting up an account and profile was not enough — it required to register the business with this link: http://www.quill.com/content/iw/support/business-listings/default.aspx.
I never did that, forgot about Quill, until this recent post.
Then logged in, bought a card no problem.
Then tried to buy another visa card using a different Chase Ink card, and the website has reverted to “Business Customer Exclusive. We apologize. Due to contractual obligations, this item can only be purchased by registered business customers”
I have changed profile settings, set up purchasing manager settings, logged out/in, cleared cookies, used different browsers etc.
Still a no go.
The one thing I have not done is make a separate purchase, a trick that seems to have variable results based on the comments.
Created a business account for my web business and I could not order a Gift Card from the page.
I went in under my profile and filled out my address info, then went back to the page and could order a gift card.
Took several tries on the complete order page to get it to take my card, dont know what is up with that.
I opened a new account today and had no problem buying a $300 gift card without making a different purchase first. I did also add some penny items to my cart so maybe that helped.
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Most of their gift cards and all their VGCs are only available to “registered business customers.” It isn’t clear what that requires but someone else mentioned that it requires an existing customer relationship. So for most people there’s no gift card opportunity here.
You can specify in your account profile that you’re a business, so that seems to be all you need to do.
Does not work.
That didn’t work. What did work was ordering a ream of paper for $8 and as soon as that order was complete I could order the gift card. Although this deal is a little marginal value I think it is worth it to be ready for future opportunities.
I added it to my ink cash card, but then when I went to buy a gift card they wouldn’t let me unless I made a different purchase first and they verified my business account. Asinine. Not worth the trouble for $16.
That’s strange – I didn’t have to make a separate purchase last night, although I did try buying a gift card from them a few months ago, so perhaps that counted as a different purchase despite them auto-cancelling that previous order.
A few years ago, I bought a Keurig coffee maker from Quill at a good price. After that purchase, a sales rep would call me about once a month to get me to buy more stuff. It took me a few years of not buying anything for them to stop calling. Just my two cents.