UPDATE: $500 Visa Gift Cards are on Life Support (Cash Only Starting Monday), read the update post here.
$500 Visa Gift Cards are Back at Office Depot!
I was shopping at my local Office Depot store in Southern California and saw a bunch of $500 Visa Gift Card on the gift card rack. I couldn’t believe it!
These haven’t be around for several months but I was able to use my Chase Ink Bold Business Credit Card and get 5x on the purchase. With this purchase, I earned 5 x 505 = 2,525 Chase Ultimate Reward Points. Read What are 65,000 or 85,000 Chase Ultimate Reward Points Worth? (With Short Answers and Colorful Charts!) if you don’t know why Chase Ultimate Reward Points are amazing.
The gift cards are Vanilla Visa Gift Cards and you create a PIN number during your first purchase, so no need to pre-assign a PIN number.
If you are in SoCal, the Office Depot I went to is at The District. Any questions?
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Great! Are these gcs pin-enabled?
I haven’t opened the package yet. I will let you know when I get home.
Yes they are. Select any 4 digit pin and that’s the pin. 1 hour delay to use after purchase.
Grant: you may want to block some of the info on the receipt for security purposes.
Thank you for the heads up, but there is nothing to hide on the receipt.
they are, I have bought these type at cvs, I think the last 4 digits of the card number will work.
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Interesting. I’ve run across old stock of those variable load cards twice in the last several months (identical packaging, but seemed to be old stock from the earlier in the year before they pulled the variable load cards). Both times the register was hard coded against accepting the variable load cards – which went into effect back in February.
How much stock did they have at the store?
There were probably 20+ cards on the gift card rack. No problem buying them at the register either.
Congratulations, Grant, this is a great find!
Thanks Greg! Feels great to be so popular today. Happy 4th of July!
Awesome! I wont be buying anymore $200 gc’s. Thanks for the heads up!
So can these be loaded on bluebird via Walmart?
Yes they can. You can enter any pin you want at WM
Awesome – thanks! It’s a $2k/mo limit on BB though, right?
It’s $5,000 per month. $1,000 per day.
I bought a 500.00 VISA Gift Card, the next day I took this GC to WM and asked that the GC be transferred to my Bluebird. The response was that they can not do that with gift cards. So no transfer of the cash balance to my Bluebird card. Help, what have I done wrong?
Some gift cards can be loaded to BB while others cannot. Did you get the Vanilla Visa gift card at Office Depot?
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Hi, I bought this and went to walmart kiosk and entered the last 4 digit of the card, but the card was not accepted. How could I assign PIN # without purchase?
You should be able to enter any 4 digit code and get the card to work. I’m going to Walmart later today to try.
great post Grant, I tried to load onto bluebird right after purchase, but thanks for the heads up that it takes one hour to create the pin.
I was able to create a pin right at WM on the machine.
I did enter the last 4 digits of the GC number, but, it didn’t take it. I even tried twice. When I checked online, it showed as “Denied; Delayed Redemption” twice on the transaction.
I should clarify further. I was trying to load this $500 GC to my bluebird account.
Hmm, not sure what happened. I was able to create a pin at WM on the machine.
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Did any one successfully buy Vanilla Reload Pack? I tried that yesterday but system declined.
Are you talking about Vanilla Reload Cards from CVS or Vanilla Visa Gift Cards from Office Depot?
Office Depot. I was able to purchase Vanilla reload pack in CVS. But I tried Vanilla Reload pack in Office Depot on 07/04/2013 and system declined.
Yes, they are moving to cash only in a few days it appears.
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Well, the party is over……
You might be able to find an OD that will take CC, but that will require a lot of driving around.
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So what is the status of buying $500 GCs at office supply stores with a CC? I just got a hold of an Ink Bold and need some cost effective spend to generate URs.
You can’t buy variable load gift cards ($20-$500) with credit cards, only the fixed value gift cards ($200). Have fun with your new Chase Ink Bold. Did you sign up for Visa Savings Edge too?