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Has anyone figured out a way to tell whether they're eligible to recycle on the Staples Rewards website (short of checking your purchase history and doing the math)? It claims I can recycle 20 this month, but I am fairly sure my eligibility expired last month, since I last bought ink on 11/30.
billrubin said: Has anyone figured out a way to tell whether they're eligible to recycle on the Staples Rewards website (short of checking your purchase history and doing the math)? It claims I can recycle 20 this month, but I am fairly sure my eligibility expired last month, since I last bought ink on 11/30.Don't think so. Your eligibility as you said expired on 5/28/13: http://www.calendar-12.com/date_add_days The easiest way is to look at the ink & toner column under YTD summary. You can show previous year with a simple click and then drill down in purchase details.
mathfaster said: billrubin said: Has anyone figured out a way to tell whether they're eligible to recycle on the Staples Rewards website (short of checking your purchase history and doing the math)? It claims I can recycle 20 this month, but I am fairly sure my eligibility expired last month, since I last bought ink on 11/30.Don't think so. Your eligibility as you said expired on 5/28/13: http://www.calendar-12.com/date_add_days The easiest way is to look at the ink & toner column under YTD summary. You can show previous year with a simple click and then drill down in purchase details.Actually, it was valid thru 5/30 (which was when I bought ink -- should have bought earlier in the week, but I forgot). February being a the short month, worked out to my benefit. I calculated it using Excel.
billrubin said: mathfaster said: billrubin said: Has anyone figured out a way to tell whether they're eligible to recycle on the Staples Rewards website (short of checking your purchase history and doing the math)? It claims I can recycle 20 this month, but I am fairly sure my eligibility expired last month, since I last bought ink on 11/30.Don't think so. Your eligibility as you said expired on 5/28/13: http://www.calendar-12.com/date_add_days The easiest way is to look at the ink & toner column under YTD summary. You can show previous year with a simple click and then drill down in purchase details.Actually, it was valid thru 5/30 (which was when I bought ink -- should have bought earlier in the week, but I forgot). February being a the short month, worked out to my benefit. I calculated it using Excel.Hmmm. One of these calculators is off then. However, I added 179 days to 11/30 not 180 to be safe as many times Staples includes the date of purchase in their calculations. Did not manually verify. Like for returns in 14 days which includes the date of purchase in their calculations. It really would be nice if Staples would include an "end date w/o purchase for recycling" on their website but of course it is to their advantage not to do so. I really don't want to cut it that close as when your six months is up it you don't need to buy until the end of the following month to recycle.
billrubin said: mathfaster said: billrubin said: Has anyone figured out a way to tell whether they're eligible to recycle on the Staples Rewards website (short of checking your purchase history and doing the math)? It claims I can recycle 20 this month, but I am fairly sure my eligibility expired last month, since I last bought ink on 11/30.Don't think so. Your eligibility as you said expired on 5/28/13: http://www.calendar-12.com/date_add_days The easiest way is to look at the ink & toner column under YTD summary. You can show previous year with a simple click and then drill down in purchase details.Actually, it was valid thru 5/30 (which was when I bought ink -- should have bought earlier in the week, but I forgot). February being a the short month, worked out to my benefit. I calculated it using Excel. Hmm? Does Staples count the day of purchase as one of the days?
If not, then given 11/30/2012, the 18th day would be 05/29/2013: Nov - 30 days: 0 Dec - 31 days: 31 --> 31 Jan - 31 days: 31 --> 62 Feb - 28 days: 28 --> 90 Mar - 31 days: 31 --> 121 Apr - 30 days: 30 --> 151 May - 30 days: 29th day would be 180th day.
bpvh said: Hmm? Does Staples count the day of purchase as one of the days?
If so, then the 180th day would be 05/28/2013. Actually, my bad, I recycled on 5/29, which was the 180th day after my ink purchase.
Here is what the SR site says:
"Recycle any ink or toner cartridge, up to 20 per calendar month per customer, and, if the Member has spent at least $30 in ink and/or toner purchases at Staples over the previous 180 days"
So, I had not realized this, but OD will give you partial credit for recycling, up to the amount you spent. In my case. I spent $39.99 (after Rewards) and recycled 20 cartridges over 2 months and had a $39.99 credit. I thought it might only give me $38 and that I would need to buy something else to get the last cartridge.
billrubin said: So, I had not realized this, but OD will give you partial credit for recycling, up to the amount you spent. In my case. I spent $39.99 (after Rewards) and recycled 20 cartridges over 2 months and had a $39.99 credit. I thought it might only give me $38 and that I would need to buy something else to get the last cartridge. OfficeMax pays out in per cart increments, Office Depot, as you have found out, does not.
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