Posts made by penguin110

I swear that many of the Staples employees have no idea how the recycling program works. Just this month I was told I can only recycle 20 cartridges. I told her I can recycle as much as I want to, but understood that I would only get credit for the amount allowed on my account. Last month, the cashier combined my 30 cartridges with the technology and was reporting it as 31 pieces of technology. When I pointed it out to him, he said it wouldn’t make a difference. I insisted he correct it which he did.

@kimi said in At Staples: 50% back in rewards on all ink and toner purchase *must activate, online only*:

My offer is the typical 30% back on ink & toner, exp 1/11/25.

It’s 50% for me.

@marvomatic said in Amazon Prime Dawn Powerwash Spray, Dish Soap, Dishwashing Liquid, Cleaning Supplies, Frosted Cranberry, 1 Starter Kit, 16 Fl Oz S&S U $5.99 = $2.84 ExpUnk:

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What are we supposed to eat this! LOL

Next year they will probably have pumpkin spice.

@mrvietnam said in Office Depot 12/8-12/14: 100% back in Bonus Rewards on Duracell Coppertop AA/AAA 16-pk & 24-pk batteries. Limit 2 items per member.:

@penguin110 said in Office Depot 12/8-12/14: 100% back in Bonus Rewards on Duracell Coppertop AA/AAA 16-pk & 24-pk batteries. Limit 2 items per member.:

Earn 3 General Depot Dollars when you recycle your ink and toner cartridges and make a qualifying minimum purchase of $10 made in the same month. Limit of 10 recycled cartridges per month.

How does a “General Depot Dollar” differ than the rewards we receive with a “regular” rewards account?

I asked the same question to the cashier who was trying to sign me up and he made it seem like they were the same as Rewards. I wonder why they call these rewards by another name. I bet you can’t use both types of rewards on the same transaction.

I found this about all of their “Dollars”:

Depot Dollars

“Depot Dollars” are coupons that can be applied for a pre-tax discount on eligible services and products and are not a gift certificate. 
Each Depot Dollar issued to a Business Select Member may be redeemed at Office Depot and OfficeMax stores or online at officedepot.com to reduce the pre-tax price of a qualifying item or service by $1.
Depot Dollars cannot be redeemed on odpbusiness.com
Depot Dollars cannot be used in conjunction with Paypal or Masterpass tender types
Depot Dollars cannot be used in conjunction with a Masterpass coupon
Depot Dollars are non-refundable, non-transferrable, have no cash value and cannot be used as an account payment.
Business Select Members can view their Depot Dollars balance on the MyAccount section in their account after log in.

Service Depot Dollars

Upon paid enrollment into this Program, Business Select Members will receive fifty (50) Depot Dollars (“Service Depot Dollars”).  Service Depot Dollars are valid only on Print Services (excluding same-day business cards), Pack & Ship services, and Computer Setup and Repair Services.
Service Depot Dollars are issued upon enrollment into the Program, are valid for one year from the date of enrollment. and will expire on the last day of the 12th month of the first enrollment period. (For example, if a Member enrolls on April 10, the Member’s Service Depot Dollars will expire on April 30 of the following calendar year). All Service Depot Dollars in a Business Select Member’s Account that are not used within the first year will expire and will be forfeited.
Business Select Members will receive fifty (50) Service Depot Dollars on the first day of the month of each annual renewal period, if renewed. Cancelled Program accounts will not be eligible for Service Depot Dollars.

General Depot Dollars

Business Select Members receive three (3) General Depot Dollars for ink or toner cartridges recycled in store (“General Depot Dollars”) when they make a qualifying $10 minimum purchase in the same month. Qualifying purchases exclude taxes, delivery fees, postage stamps, gift and prepaid cards, and purchases made with rewards/merchandise certificates/cards. 
General Depot Dollars will only be issued for the first ten (10) cartridges recycled per month, for a maximum of thirty (30) General Depot Dollars issued per month per Member.  Members may recycle additional cartridges, but General Depot Dollars will only be earned on the monthly limit of 10.  We do not accept damaged cartridges for recycling and such cartridges shall not be eligible for General Depot Dollars.
Members may redeem General Depot Dollars in conjunction with Service Depot Dollars on eligible services listed above. General Depot dollars may also be redeemed for purchases of goods, excluding gift/prepaid cards, postage stamps, same-day business cards, Office Depot Marketplace items, subscription services or any third party provided services, including, but not limited to, home and office installations services, Managed IT as a Service, performance protection plans, trade-in services, cell phone repair, 3D printing, offsite shredding services, administrative, marketing and furniture services).
General Depot Dollars are issued monthly (on or about the 15th of the month) and will expire on the last day of the third month after issuance. (For example, General Depot Dollars issued on February 15 with expire on May 31). General Depot Dollars that are not used before expiration will be forfeited.

Earn 3 General Depot Dollars when you recycle your ink and toner cartridges and make a qualifying minimum purchase of $10 made in the same month. Limit of 10 recycled cartridges per month.

How does a “General Depot Dollar” differ than the rewards we receive with a “regular” rewards account?

Jus this passed week one location asked for an ID and another did not.

The new policy change I am referring is stores now requiring to show ID when redeeming points.

@marvomatic said in Amazon Prime ENERGIZER LED Flashlight Vision PRO, W/6 Batterys, Ultra Bright 1000+ Lumens, IPX4 Water Resistant, Aircraft-Grade Aluminum LED Light, Rugged Metal Flash Light for Outdoors, Emergency Power Outage, Black | Blk Fri | U $24.99 = $8.55 ExpUnk:

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I ordered one, you can not have too many flashlights! LOL

Temporarily out of stock.

@my4mainecoons
I was at my local Rite Aid yesterday for my covid vaccine. Shelves were pretty empty.

@ukedog said in Staples - New Offer to 10/5 Recycle 10 ink carts at store get $25 in rewards make sure offer is activated:

@mistercheap Ok, so I haven’t done my monthly recycle for September of 20 ink cartridges yet, getting the normal $40 ($2 per) in Easy Rewards.

So can I go ahead and do that first, then come back with an additional 10 cartridges a day or two after, and get the extra $25 in Easy Rewards?

Also planning to recycle technology (old cable) for another few $ as well this month…

I turned in 30 cartridges and technology in one transaction and got points for everything. My regular 20 cartridges, the 10 bonus for $25.00 and the technology.

@my4mainecoons said in Kellogg's Back to School Bucks 7/21 - 9/14 limit 10 ($5/15 or $10/25):

Staples has 45 count Cheez Its $36.79 less $10/$30 brings them to $26.79.
OR 2 of this one.
Pay with Rewards.
I think I’ll get one of each so I have the 90 needed for trick or treaters.

I picked up a box yesterday at Office Depot for $17.00 and used rewards to pay. They had about 8 different boxes of snacks for the same price. On-line they are $20.99. Do a price match at Staples.

Thanks, it was in my account.

@pakle said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

It’s the 2nd Thurs of the month (as of EST) and I just got the $5 Reward for recycling a cable in Feb, a couple days before the new program began. I also got 1000 pts for recycling another cable right after the new program began. So total of $10 (Reward & Pts) for tech recycling in Feb due to the program change. In addition to the 1000 pts for recycling a cable last week in March.

And I received my ink recycling rewards for ink that was turned in under the old program.

@mistercheap said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

@penguin110 said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

@my4mainecoons said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

@penguin110 said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

To those who turned in ink/cartridges and technology this month before the new rewards program started, you can turn more in this month and get the rewards under the new program as well.

U.S. based CSR told me that wouldn’t work.

Worked for me. I already received both rewards. The coupons under the old program expire 3/31/2024.

Old program 3/31 expiration are for JANUARY tech recycle, not Feb. they wouldn’t be paid out until March, so no way you could know for sure yet.

Checked my old rewards again and the expiration dates on all of them are now 4/30/2024.

@my4mainecoons said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

@c3 Here’s my post from the Ink thread.
@my4mainecoons said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don’t get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

I just chatted. I recycled before Feb. 7 and those 20 will be credited as per the old program. My monthly recycle limit went up to 30 but since I recycled for Feb. under the old program the 30 doesn’t start until next month.

CSR said that the offers were “fluid”, based on spending and that there aren’t any target dates or spend amounts.
me: if I can recycle 30 this month how do I know if it’s the same the next month?
CSR: check your account each month before you recycle
me: if my offer has changed, i.e. all of a sudden I can only receive credit for recycling 20, what can I do to get back up to 30?
CSR: there’s no way to know. There’s no spending target. The statuses (Elite, Premier, Base) are gone.
me: why does it say that points will post in 24-48 hrs but in the Ink Recycling T&C it says that it can take up to 60 days?
CSR: 60 days is if you do it online. If you do it in-store it’s a “one & done” transaction like any other in-store purchase and will credit within 24-48 hrs.

I recycled ink both before and after the 7th. The points I earned for the ink I recycled this past weekend already appear in my account. If what the CSR told you was correct, I should not have received the points for the ink I just recycled.

@mistercheap said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

@penguin110 said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

@my4mainecoons said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

@penguin110 said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

To those who turned in ink/cartridges and technology this month before the new rewards program started, you can turn more in this month and get the rewards under the new program as well.

U.S. based CSR told me that wouldn’t work.

Worked for me. I already received both rewards. The coupons under the old program expire 3/31/2024.

Old program 3/31 expiration are for JANUARY tech recycle, not Feb. they wouldn’t be paid out until March, so no way you could know for sure yet.

I guess I was a bit confused as the latest rewards were issued earlier than normal (February 8th) as maybe they were closing out that program. I took a screenshot of the page under the new rewards that show I have 20 cartridges to recycle before I recycled them.

@my4mainecoons said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

@penguin110 said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

To those who turned in ink/cartridges and technology this month before the new rewards program started, you can turn more in this month and get the rewards under the new program as well.

U.S. based CSR told me that wouldn’t work.

Worked for me. I already received both rewards. The coupons under the old program expire 3/31/2024.

To those who turned in ink/cartridges and technology this month before the new rewards program started, you can turn more in this month and get the rewards under the new program as well.

@fulltimedad said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

OT- I see they are trying to save by cutting store hours as well. Now the store doesn’t open until 11AM on Sundays, was 9AM. Used to be 8AM during the week and they pushed that back to 9AM-8PM, not even open 12 hours.

One store near me opens at 10 and another at 11 on Sunday. It has been that way for a while.

@ukedog said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

@my4mainecoons said in Ink Rewards affected by Staples Program changes? Don't get cheated, obtained a good outcome, see post:

I bought a $200 visa gc and recycled a cable & 15 ink @ 400 points. I was expecting 7K points but only earned 6600. 🤔

Yeah, something similar when I recycled 20 inks on 2/8. I got 1,000 points “when you recycle tech, batteries and more”, then 400 points 19 times for the inks, for a total of 8,600 points.

On the bright side, they say I already have $43 of “Easy Rewards ready to redeem”.

But I definitely miss the ability to SEARCH site-wide on their website on my PC.
Have to use the Staples mobile app for that!!

Same thing for me with turning in 20 and only showing the 400 points 19 times.

@jess888 said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

https://www.staples.com/lp/easyrewardsoverview

This is going to be a cluster **** for a while.

@rsuaver If 50 cents in rewards for ink & toner and with their highly overinflated prices, I might just be done with Staples.

@mrvietnam said in A Merry Christmas from Firehouse Subs-Not (Update to rewards):

So for all practical purposes, the free birthday sub has ended.

For me, yes. With my work schedule, when I eat at these type of places, it is on the weekend.

Dear Loyalty Member,

Happy Holidays! Thank you for being a loyal Member of the Firehouse Subs® Rewards Program. We wanted to let you know there are some updates coming to the Firehouse Subs Rewards Terms and Conditions, taking effect on January 24th, 2024. Some of these changes include:

Birthday Sub Reward Update: The Birthday Sub Reward will only be available to Firehouse Subs Rewards Members who have made a purchase within the previous six (6) months from their birthday. The birthday reward will be redeemable the day before, the day of, and the day after your birth date.

Terms and conditions: https://www.firehousesubs.com/terms-conditions-rewards

@mistercheap said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

@penguin110 Thanks for sharing this. will keep in HD for a few days, then move to DD so everyone can see this as it is important, if not ‘vague’ news.

What troubles me about this is, absolutely NO mention of the ink rewards program (changes, does it continue, etc) especially for those of us who have invested in cartridges and spent $50 on ink in recent months to get the 7 month benefit of recycling total. They’d better not reset the program and penalize people who’ve already bought ink or even worse, D/C it altogether. I never trust announcements that give you no information other than to tell you ‘how great’ a new program will be, but we’ll just ambush you with it on 2/1.

If it’s so great, then tell me what you are planning to do! otherwise it’s not great to be left in suspense.

Thanks, I wasn’t sure where to post it. I will definitely complain if they reduce the recycling benefits. I made my ink/toner purchase a month or so ago and was just charged the fee for my plus account.

We’re excited to announce that we will be launching a new loyalty program in February. In listening to feedback from customers like you, we will be replacing the current Staples Rewards® program with something you’re going to love even more. The new program will reward you for the way you shop – it’s personalized by you and designed to help you quickly and easily save on your purchases.

Thanks for being a loyal Staples customer and we can’t wait to share this exciting new program with you. Look for more details coming soon.

In the meantime, please continue to earn, redeem and enjoy the benefits of the current Rewards program. Value earned through the Staples Rewards program will be paid in full once the new program launches.

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@kimi said in WALGREENS - Get Flu/Covid, etc Vaccine during WAGS DAYS, earn $20 Wags Cash on $1 Spend coupon ACTIVATION REQ'D (some states excluded) Must complete by 10/7:

@sonofzeus said in WALGREENS - Get Flu/Covid, etc Vaccine during WAGS DAYS, earn $20 Wags Cash on $1 Spend coupon ACTIVATION REQ'D (some states excluded) Must complete by 10/7:

@c3 Chaos at WAGS next week. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/06/business/walgreens-pharmacists-walkouts-protest-working-conditions/index.html

My Walgreens is horribly understaffed. Last year I waited 1 1/2 hours for my flu shot even though I had an appt. People with appts before me waited over 2 hours. There was only one pharmacist who was filling prescriptions, handling calls, and giving vaccinations. My wait would have been longer but a pharmacy technician finally appeared just to give vaccinations.

This $20 Wag cash offer was tempting, but after last year I decided to try CVS this year.

I guess other Walgreens are horribly understaffed and overworked too.

My appointment was at 4:00. I arrived 15 minutes early and was out of there in 10 minutes. The shots were given by a pharmacy tech.

@sonofzeus said in WALGREENS - Get Flu/Covid, etc Vaccine during WAGS DAYS, earn $20 Wags Cash on $1 Spend coupon ACTIVATION REQ'D (some states excluded) Must complete by 10/7:

@penguin110 s/b $20

Thanks, I had the 25% off on my mind.

I got two vaccines and received two of the $20 rewards coupons as well. I did not have to clip any coupons to get the rewards coupons.

@dionaea said in Keurig Recyclable K Cup Class Action Settlement - submit by January 9, 2023:

I got an email from PayPal that said “Your Smith v. Keurig Green Mountain settlement payment is now available in Venmo”. I don’t have a Venmo account nor do I use Venmo. The $5 is in my PayPal account and ready to use.

Same with me.

@mistercheap said in Keurig Recyclable K Cup Class Action Settlement - submit by January 9, 2023:

PAYMENT CAME THIS EVENING!!! Finally.

Got my $6.00.

Deleted.

My local Office Depot had the water on sale - two 24 bottle cases for $6.00.

@mistercheap said in My W Days at Walgreens 7/23-29 Daily bonus rewards offers including: $10 Wags Cash on $20 Grocery, $15 rewards on $35 app order, $10 on $10+ PickUp order and more (see post):

@q-shopper said in My W Days at Walgreens 7/23-29 Daily bonus rewards offers including: $10 Wags Cash on $20 Grocery, $15 rewards on $35 app order, $10 on $10+ PickUp order and more (see post):

@sonofzeus I get one every time.
Do you walk into the pickup area? Or just hit ‘I am here’?

I always go inside, yesterday the manager checked me out and scanned my order with a hand-held gizmo that closed out the order as picked up. My first time with this experience, and no register receipt. I asked her,she said it was all digital.

They always ask me if I want a paper receipt when I pick up the order at the store near me.

@rick505 said in One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.:

Hmm, why does this remind me of a “Seinfeld” episode?

Newman!

@yoregano

I did Sunday and Monday’s offers and picked them both up on Monday. I also do it tomorrow to get the $20 bonus.

And as I get older, the 24 packs are much easier to carry than the 40 packs.

@dangeruss said in SAMSUNG Jet 75 Complete Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner w/ Clean Station, Removable Battery, Lightweight, Powerful Cleaning for Hardwood Floors, Carpets, Area Rugs, VS20T7551P5/AA, Silver $192 (used, acceptable) @amazon warehouse:

@my4mainecoons said in SAMSUNG Jet 75 Complete Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner w/ Clean Station, Removable Battery, Lightweight, Powerful Cleaning for Hardwood Floors, Carpets, Area Rugs, VS20T7551P5/AA, Silver $192 (used, acceptable) @amazon warehouse:

I wonder how much life is left in the battery. There are lots of cordless Dysons with dead batteries for sale. I would like a cordless vacuum but what I really need is someone to actually use one of the 3 vacuum cleaners that I own. I keep thinking that if I buy the stuff to clean that the house will get cleaned.

These are Amazon returns. I don’t imagine someone was able to kill the battery in a month

Unless someone swapped out a battery.

Going out of business sale has started.

Gift cards accepted through Saturday May 13, 2023.

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@sportsfan64 said in Walgreens $20 back in Cash Rewards when you spend $40 until 5/3/23-YMMV:

I got a coupon in my Wags account yesterday–$20 back in Cash Rewards when you spend $40, in store or online, good until 5/3/23. Not sure if everyone will get the deal, so YMMV.

I got it.

No swishes for me.