Update 11/3/24: This Mastercard gift card deal goes live in-store today.
The Deal
- Buy $200 Mastercard gift cards from Staples with no purchase fee.
- Direct link to weekly ad.
Key Terms
- Offer valid November 3-9, 2024.
- Limit 9 per customer per day.
- Offer valid in-store only.
Tips & Ideas
Note that this deal doesn’t go live until Sunday, so I’ll republish it then.
Staples used to place a limit of 1 for Visa and Mastercard gift card deals. They lifted that limit a year or two ago to 5 per customer per day on Visa & Mastercard gift cards and then increased that limit to 8 per day. At times it fluctuates between 5 and 8, but with this latest offer they’ve increased the limit even higher and so you can now buy 9 cards.
If you buy 9 of these and pay with a Chase Ink Plus or Ink Cash card, you’ll earn 9,000 Ultimate Rewards points which is an excellent return. Alternatively, you could buy one with an Amex Business Gold card to take advantage of its $20 office supply store monthly credit that was added in late 2023.
Something worth noting is that these Mastercard gift cards now ordinarily come with a $7.95 purchase fee rather than a $6.95 fee which is what it had been for many years. That doesn’t matter for this gift card deal seeing as the purchase fee is waived, but it’s worth being aware of if you plan on buying Mastercard gift cards from Staples when there’s not one of these deals running.
One downside is that there have been issues with people liquidating MetaBank-issued gift cards at Walmart and some other grocery stores. Be aware of that potential liquidation issue before buying a ton of these. In the past there were fraud issues with Mastercard gift cards too, but I haven’t heard of any problems on that front for a few years now.
Past Deals
- October 6-12, 2024
- September 8-14, 2024
- August 11-17, 2024
- July 14-20, 2024
- June 16-22, 2024
- May 19-25, 2024
- April 21-27, 2024
- March 24-30, 2024
- February 25-March 2, 2024
- January 28-February 3, 2024
- December 31, 2023-January 6, 2024
- December 3-9, 2023
- November 5-11 2023
- October 8-14, 2023
- September 10-16, 2023
- August 13-19, 2023
- July 16-22, 2023
- June 18-24, 2023
- May 21-27, 2023
- April 23-29, 2023
- March 26-April 1, 2023
- February 26-March 4, 2023
- January 29-February 4, 2023
- December 4-10, 2022
- November 13-19, 2022
- October 30-November 5, 2022
- August 21-27, 2022
- July 17-23, 2022
- June 26-July 2, 2022
- May 22-28, 2022
- April 24-30, 2022
- March 20-26, 2022
- February 6-12, 2022
- December 5-11, 2021
- November 14-20, 2021
- October 10-16, 2021
- August 22-28, 2021
- July 18-24, 2021
- June 27-July 3, 2021
- April 25-May 1, 2021
- March 28-April 3, 2021
- November 29-December 5, 2020
- October 25-31, 2020
- August 2-8, 2020
- July 19-25, 2020
- June 14-20, 2020
- March 22-28, 2020
- December 1-7, 2019
- October 20-26, 2019
- July 21-27, 2019
- April 21-27, 2019
- March 24-30, 2019
I’m not anywhere near an Office Depot right now unfortunately and so haven’t been able to check. If there was a deal this week though someone would hopefully have tipped us, Frequent Miler, Miles to Memories or Doctor of Credit off by now. Perhaps next week.
I am not able to register the card on the web site
got error message
aske me to call the number at back of the card
same here, visa would not register, but the card works for online purchases, the past 4 months too many problems with these cards, not sure what is happening that about 1 in 10 cards are faulty in some way, had recently a MC card with several transactions just fine until at $6.59 left it stopped working, declined in person transactions as well as online, giftcardmall sent me a replacement card for that amount, this issues cost them money, it costs all of us money
Def a problem at Wally’s near me. Kroger is no issue, just more work.
Does Payce award cashback based on calendar month? Or is it a rolling 30 day period? Reason I ask is because I made a purchase Oct 30 and want to see if a purchase in November would still track?
I think it’s a calendar month seeing as you have to activate offers from the first of each month. I should note though that that’s just my assumption – I’ve not done much with Payce myself, so hopefully someone else can confirm for sure.
Correct, it is calendar month
MetaBank-issued gift cards at Walmart- Walmart has put a stop on all Visa/master card payment as debit on their register for buying any money services.
Not true. I continue to use VGC for these regularly.
So wrong your buying the wrong carsa
need to buy 25k this week, thank you
I called my local staples the rep. was not aware of any such a deal ? Is it really going on?
It’s in the weekly ad so I’d assume so, especially seeing as there haven’t been any reports that I’ve seen of it not working. Reps often won’t know what deals are on throughout the store.
I got 8 Mastercard fee free today at my local Staples. I asked for 5 and she said most can do is 8 per day – so OK try 8.
Our store is ten card limit or $2000
Too bad Staples itself didn’t get the memo. “Deal” is nonexistent.
The August 11th Staples $200 Mastercards no-fees: bought 5 and registered and changed pin same day. A few days later one had already been spent in California through Google Play online video games. Our Staples keeps all Visas and Mastercards stored, and you have to ask for them via the Store Manager. I always check all cards for physical breakage as well, so not sure how these get stolen so often. Giftcardmall will refund my stolen $200 within 90 days.
i have not bought these before. i am interested now and have 2 questions. Can you use cash to pay for these debit cards? also what info do they require during purchase?
You can use cash to buy these, but you can potentially earn decent credit card rewards if you have a card that earns bonus points at office supply stores.
The store doesn’t require any info when buying these – you just take them up to the counter and buy them.
Thank u for your response. After purchasing them from said counter they are ready to use? No further activation is required?
Correct – they’ll be activated and ready to use.