do you know if they tie things back to the rewards account? People have reported that you can use the same credit card for multiple transactions as long as you send the rebate to different people at different addresses, im just not sure about the rewards account


edit: the reward status says validation complete for all of them. does that mean they will send them?

In my experience, anything on your rebate submission needs to be unique. The credit card you paid in store with for each rebate is fine, I also use the same, the Ink. I do not have a staples reward #, but if you duplicated a phone number on a rebate submission form (online or printed out) that rebate will be denied IME. If you have a phone # that you used for multiple rebates and the rebate process proceeds, this will be news to me.

Who bought all the vgcs? :(

Yes everything on the rebate forms, including phone number were unique.

Anyone purchase 300s online with their Amex Simplycash Plus Business card? I just noticed that my Staples.com orders are listed as General Merchandise and Supplies and not Business Services. If you did staples.com did you get the 5%?

Curious if it shows what you purchased?

My Business SPG shows I purchased a VGC

Yes it does show what is purchases. I see a bunch of 300 visa from staples.com and 200 amex from od. That really sucks

yeah, thats why I was hesitant on getting the card due to the level 3 data.

Got 5% for staples.com orders using SCP. AMEX will also show what GC you purchased in store as well as online. For example, $25 Gap, $50 Gap, $50 ToysRUS, Visa $300, etc

Got the card in Oct, since 5% CB is calendar base, got close to maxing out the 5% CB in 10 weeks.

Are you buying the gift cards online through a portal or just directly at staples.com?

Staples.com directly.

Is there even any point using Chase portal since you obviously won't earn the additional 2x UR? I need to buy a bunch of retail GCs online for purchases to be made this week, since my local Staples doesn't stock large value cards; any issues with earning the usual 5x with the Ink+ on these?

I have never had a problem with my Chase Ink cards. We max out both cards. But honestly, it's such a fragile system we use. We buy the cards online, buy MO's and deposit those to our bank. Having a business is definitely helpful. But anything can happen to our system, and we keep hoping it still all works even five years from now. Chase could get sick and tired of our 5X earnings and cancel our cards. We could get stopped from acquiring MO's at our local grocery store and Wally, and our bank could start limiting our MO deposits. Very fragile.

That's not the fragile part. The fragile part is that the Ink plus is closed for new business and the new Ink Prefered is offering 3x on OSS. That would lead me to believe that the Ink Plus is on the clock altogether for the 5x.

Ink Preferred is only 1X at OSS