Update: this popular offer is still available
Staples [
store locator] is offering
Staples Rewards Members (
free to join):
$10 in Staples Rewards (redeemable in-store only) when you
Recycle Eligible Tech Items (see list below).
Valid until 6/17/23. Offer is limited to once per customer per calendar month.
Thanks to community member
SUCHaDEAL for sharing this deal.
Note, rewards are redeemable in-store only.
Eligible Tech Items:
- Adapters & cables
- Battery backup devices
- Cable/satellite receivers
- Calculators
- CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs & players
- Coffee brewers (less than 40 lb.)
- Computers
- Computer speakers
- Connected home devices
- Digital and video cameras
- Digital projectors
- Fax machines
- Flash drives
- Gaming consoles and controllers
- GPS devices
- Hard drives
- Headphones and earbuds
- Keyboards & mice
- Label makers
- Laminators
- Laptops
- MP3 players
- Monitors (CRT, LED / LCD, plasma)
- Phones
- Printers & multifunction devices
- Routers & modems
- Scanners
- Shredders
- Small servers
- Stereo receivers
- Stylus pens
- Tablets & eReaders
- Video streaming devices
- Webcams
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May's item credit will be available in June, so you can redeem two $10 rewards certs at once for $20 in goods from 6/15 to 6/30. Rewards certs on good on most items in store except gift cards, postage stamps and prepaid phone cards. You must redeem the full amount of the certs. at once, no credit it given back. You do not earn any new rewards on the redemption value of the certificates.
Tech rewards are valid to use IN STORE ONLY, you can not redeem them online or for online pick up orders.
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Yesterday I went to the Staples store in my town to recycle another old cellphone. A newbie cashier made the same error by entering 24535464. I caught the error on the customer screen before he completed the transaction. I showed him the previous day's receipt and the incorrectly entered code. I then told him to just press "Other Tech" on his screen which resulted in the right tech code 690307.
The cashiers can easily make the mistake because they assume 24535464 is for phone due to the description "Phone and Tablet Case" on their screen. It is actually for phone case, not for phone.
Other Tech is on the same first screen. So it is easier just to ask them to press "Other Tech".
I am pretty sure if you recycle a USB cable, you will get 690307 (Other Tech).
** I recycled old printers twice before. I got 690804 (Printer Recycling) both times. 690804 is a valid tech recycling code.
So your rewards for recycling will almost certainly be issued the 2nd Thursday of May, and will expire the last day of June.
This is of course assuming that there is not a problem with reward issuance which has happened in the past. A few months ago the tech recycling rewards were delayed one month for many.
Yesterday I went to the Staples store in my town to recycle another old cellphone. A newbie cashier made the same error by entering 24535464. I caught the error on the customer screen before he completed the transaction. I showed him the previous day's receipt and the incorrectly entered code. I then told him to just press "Other Tech" on his screen which resulted in the right tech code 690307.
The cashiers can easily make the mistake because they assume 24535464 is for phone due to the description "Phone and Tablet Case" on their screen. It is actually for phone case, not for phone.
Other Tech is on the same first screen. So it is easier just to ask them to press "Other Tech".
I am pretty sure if you recycle a USB cable, you will get 690307 (Other Tech).
** I recycled old printers twice before. I got 690804 (Printer Recycling) both times. 690804 is a valid tech recycling code.
I recycled my laptop battery yesterday with the code - Battery recycling 24535465. Will I get $5 or $10?
Next, can I do a pen as well? Asking because it has the same code, 24535465 writing recycling.
Having said that, I very rarely had problems with ink rewards not posting properly but tech recycling rewards do not post at least every other time. I usually drop ink and tech on the same receipt so it's not that something was mistyped but I also had one time with separate receipts and still had a problem. I used to chat with Staples to get this fixed. One time I just didn't have the time to deal with it and the situation auto-fixed next month. Looking forward to see what I get next Thursday.
Are you guys having similar problems with tech recycling?
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Having said that, I very rarely had problems with ink rewards not posting properly but tech recycling rewards do not post at least every other time. I usually drop ink and tech on the same receipt so it's not that something was mistyped but I also had one time with separate receipts and still had a problem. I used to chat with Staples to get this fixed. One time I just didn't have the time to deal with it and the situation auto-fixed next month. Looking forward to see what I get next Thursday.
Are you guys having similar problems with tech recycling?
Field report…
I recycled 20 ink cartridges, a ball point pen, and a phone charger.
The clerk was hesitant to taking my pen, but the manager showed him how to do it.
Ink 725137
Phone charger 690307 other technology
Pen 24535465 writing recycling
So, there are different sku's for recycling.
Manager was reluctant but then he read terms stating any pen
Field report…
I recycled 20 ink cartridges, a ball point pen, and a phone charger.
The clerk was hesitant to taking my pen, but the manager showed him how to do it.
Ink 725137
Phone charger 690307 other technology
Pen 24535465 writing recycling
So, there are different sku's for recycling.
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