The Deal
- Buy $200 Mastercard gift cards from Staples with no purchase fee.
- Direct link to weekly ad.
Key Terms
- Offer valid March 26-April 1, 2023.
- Limit 8 per customer per day.
- Offer valid in-store only.
Tips & Ideas
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 have now increased that limit to 8 per day which is awesome.
If you buy 8 of these and pay with a Chase Ink Plus or Ink Cash card, you’ll earn 8,000 Ultimate Rewards points which is an excellent return.
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’s 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
- 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.
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.
need to buy 25k this week, thank you