Thursday, September 29, 2011

About Staples, Office Depot and Office Max ink rewards

For those of you who do not know, the 3 office supply superstores offer a nice way to snag some free stuff (with a little bit of work).
Basically, each of the 3 stores offer store credit for depositing your used ink cartridges with them at the following rates:

- Staples: $2/ink up to 10 inks per month (20 inks if you are a premier member by spending at least $1000 a year) No additional purchase necessary.

- Office Depot: $2/ink up to 10 inks per month (you will need to also have spent the equivalent amount in cash at the store for the rewards to show in your account)

- Office Max: $3/ink up to 20 inks per month (you will need to also have spent the equivalent amount in cash at the store for the rewards to show in your account)

You will need to sign up with each store's (free) respective rewards program to take part in this. 

Staples is the easiest as you don't need to make any further purchases to earn store credit. They also often offer bonus ink rewards ($5-$6 per cartridge) with purchase of $50 worth of HP ink.

How do you get Staples premier status or take advantage of Office Depot's/Office Max's ink rewards program with little or no out of pocket costs?

All 3 stores often offer FREE after rebate promotions. I will keep readers as up to date on these as I can. 

Simply buy those items using your rewards account. The money spent counts towards your ink rewards account PLUS you'll get the items FREE. Use, sell or give away! 


How do you get those use ink cartridges?


  • Save your own empty inks
  • Ask people you know to save them for you
  • Try craigslist.org (post a want ad or see if anyone is giving them away)
  • Try on your local freecycle.com
  • If all else fails, you can buy them on ebay
 

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