The Five Back Visa gift cards sold at Office Depot and OfficeMax are
variable load cards from $ 20 to $ 200 with a $ 6.95 fee.
If you purchase a $ 500 card it only triggers once (e.g no $ 20 off), but it does work
on variable load cards.
You need to buy a minimum of a $ 100 card, but
the variable load cards work -LSB-...]
However, make sure that the discount is being applied to
variable load cards, since they weren't working last time around.
$ 500
variable load cards have a $ 5.95 fee, so you will earn a $ 4.05 profit per card plus credit card rewards.
These Five Back Visa cards are are
variable load cards than can be loaded with $ 20 - $ 200.
But at Safeway I saw that
variable load cards were available with limits as high as $ 500 for only $ 5.95.
I have no idea why the fixed - value $ 200 cards are the only ones with a higher fee, and I did not see
the variable load cards at Office Max.
Fixed denomination gift cards will trigger the offer, but
variable load cards will be more YMMV, although they've usually worked in the past.
You need to buy a minimum of a $ 100 card, but
the variable load cards work as well, up to $ 500.
Both times the register was hard coded against accepting
the variable load cards — which went into effect back in February.
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).