Sunday, February 7, 2010

A lesson in advanced savings...

Using multiple points and awards programs together (when permitted) to earn extra rewards.

Example: Mypoints and Office Depot Work Life rewards.

When you shop at Office Depot through MyPoints.com:
Earn up to 4,000 Points with your Office Depot purchase! (Daily)

Get free shipping on delivery orders when you spend $50 or more.*

Spend $50-$99.99 and earn 500 Points
Spend $100-$199.99 and earn 1,000 Points
Spend $200-$399.99 and earn 2,000 Points
Spend $400 or more and earn 4,000 Points

Points will not be awarded for orders picked up at Office Depot stores. Orders must be purchased online and delivered to your home or office.

Points will not be awarded for purchases from the OD Business Solutions Division

Coupons and gift cards cannot be redeemed for Points.

* Not all items are eligible for free shipping. See site for details.


And when I shop at Office Depot.com, I can enter my Worklife Rewards (WLR) card number.
Get 10% back in Rewards on ink, toner, paper and Copy & Print Depot purchases, plus 1% back on almost everything else. 

Saving with your Worklife Rewards® card is simple. Just present your member number every time you shop with us online, in-store or by phone and we'll take care of the rest!

At the end of every quarter, we'll mail you a Reward Card if you've reached $10 in Rewards. And if you haven't reached $10, don't worry because your Rewards carry over from quarter to quarter for an entire calendar year.

You can also recycle your empty Inkjet cartridges for a $3 credit per cartridge (limit 5 per day).  The $3 credit is added to your Work life rewards.


So for our example, I am going to order $68.00 worth of toner cartridges.  I will receive 500 mypoints.com points.  I also receive $6.80 in my WLR "account" which, if I have over $10.00 in rewards before the end of the quarter, I'll get back in the form of a gift card, which I can then use to buy more inkjet cartridges for my printer.  If I take my empty inkjet cartridges to Office depot and recycle them, I'll be $3.00 each for them as well, and that gets added to my WLR "account".

A quick check of my WLR account today shows I have $12.50 earned between 1st quarter purchases and the 2 inkjet cartridges from our little HP All in One Printer that I have recycled. 

WOO HOO!  So I am earning points from MyPoints.com and getting a gift certificate from Office depot that I can use on my next purchase, which will get me MORE  POINTS on stuff that we use and need.

Mypoints.com and other similar programs are great because you get rewarded for the shopping that you do anyway!

1 comment:

  1. I love MyPoints! We shop at the Apple Store and get 2 points per dollar and then we redeem them for gift cards to Regal Cinema, Walmart, Target or a restaurant we like. We've even used our points to get multiple $10 gift cards to give to family members at Christmas time. We don't usually have a lot of money to spend on gifts so adding a gift card is a nice addition to a small gift.

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