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Old Mar 22, 2014 | 7:52 pm
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Join Date: Oct 2013
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Originally Posted by Nishant1
Staples discount is not attractive enough.

Discover cash back offers staples $25 gift cards for $20. So saving $5 on redeeming $20 works out to be 25% discount.
If you want to think about it that way, you are paying $13.90 for the $20 Staples GC, which is a better deal. (I think about it as discount to face, you are getting a 20% discount to face value with Discover, this is just over 30%.) Stop and thINK about the additional benefits of this deal.
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