Use Best Buy Price Match from Staples on iPad Deal for Discover/Apple Pay Insanity!

Update: One reader points out that Staples accepts Apple Pay, that is another place to buy the iPads.  Since you can't buy $10,000 at once, you can go to both stores.

Chuck over at Doctor of Credit reported today that some Best Buy's are now starting to accept Apple Pay.

This leads us to our first Discover/Apple Pay insanity deal.

Earlier this week I reported a wonderful iPad deal at Staples.com.  iPad Air 2s are $150 off. I normally like to price match from Best Buy to Staples because of portals, Chase Ink and extremely generous Staples Rewards.

Let's do the reverse today, let's pricematch from Staples to Best Buy.

Does it work?  Here is the language from the Best Buy's Price Match Guarantee.

We won't be beat on price.

We'll match the product prices of key online and local competitors.

The Details:

• At the time of sale, we price match all local retail competitors (including their online prices) and we price match products shipped from and sold by these major online retailers: Amazon.com, Bhphotovideo.com, Crutchfield.com, Dell.com, HP.com, Newegg.com, and TigerDirect.com.

The bold part is where we are going for.  Staples should be considered a local retailer (assuming there is one locally).  The iPad Air 2 deal at Staples is only found online for the 64GB version.  The 16GB version is found in the circular so you could pick up a circular and bring it just in case.  Based on their guarantee, they should match Staples online price.

So you will be forfeiting 5x Ultimate Rewards, up to 5% Staples Rewards, but earning up to 2.5% Best Buy Rewards and 22% from Discover.  Not too shabby!  I'm heading over to Best Buy once that iPhone comes through to check it out!

Here's the hitch:  They may not have any in stock, they may limit how many you can buy with the price match or the manager may decided to deny the pricematch even if it is legitimate, but if it works out, it's gold!

Great Posts from Around the Web

Here are some great posts from the around the Blogosphere to know about:

$50 Kmart eGift Card for $42.50 - Reselling MoneyMaker ($13.79)

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$50 Kmart Gift Card for $42.50 - Limit of 3


You will earn 2% in eBay Bucks as well.

Sold by PayPal Digital Gifts so you will earn 5x Ultimate Rewards Dollars as well.

They can be sold to SaveYa for 84%.  You are buying them for 85% so you lose, $.50 per gift card on the sale, but you earn the eBay Bucks, 5% from Inbox Dollars (or match) and 5x Ultimate Rewards Dollars.

Don't forget to start with Inbox Dollar or 5% match from Top Cashback




Here is the math for selling 3 gift cards:

Sale = -$1.50
eBay Bucks - $2.55
Inbox Dollars or Top Cashback match - $6.37
5x Ultimate Rewards - 637 points

If you value Ultimate Rewards at $0.01 per point, that's a profit of $13.79.  Not amazing, but not bad either.


If PayPal does not let you checkout with 3 at a time, buy one a time and see what happens.  Also keep in mind that there is a limit of $1,000 in gift cards bought from PayPal Digital Gifts per rolling 30 days so this will cannibalize from that limit if you care about that.

$100 Target Gift Card for $94 on eBay - Limit of 2

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$100 Target Gift Card for $94 - Limit of 2 on eBay

You will earn 2% in eBay Bucks as well.


Don't forget to start with Inbox Dollar or 5% match from Top Cashback.


This is sold by Gift Card Mall so you will not earn 5x Ultimate Rewards points.  Use whatever credit card you would like or eBay Gift Cards.

4% Cashback on eBay Gift Cards (and other gift cards) from Gift Card Mall Through Simply Best Coupons

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Simply Best Coupons is offering 4% cashback on eBay Gift Cards bought at Gift Card Mall.  $50 and $100 eGift Cards only.

4% cashback is on eBay, Staples, Lowe's, Sephora, Applebee's, iTunes, Gamestop, JCPenny, Sears, Toys R Us.


Keep in mind that you can use a maximum of $5,000 of eBay Gift Cards per rolling 180 days.  Check out Noah at Money Metagame to check out how to calculate how much you have use.


Keep in mind that there are other ways to earn 5x Ultimate Rewards points when buying eBay Gift Cards so this would really only be a good option if you don't have a Chase INK card.

You also can be eBay gift cards from Target for 5% off with a Target Card and even better with Target Gift Cards.

Terms and restrictions

• 4% cash back on eBay, Staples, Lowe's, Sephora, Applebee's, Staples, iTunes, Gamestop, JCPenny, Sears, Toys R Us - $50 and $100 eGift Cards only
• 2% cashback on most other gift card brands
• 0.5% cash back on Visa Gift Cards
• The following gift cards don't receive cash back: Hess Gasoline, Gulf, Arco, Safeway, BP, Bestbuy, Target, Macerich Visa, Choice Card, Gift Card Mall eGift cards.
• Some other restrictions may apply.

• Not eligible for sign up bonus payout

iPads on Sale at Walmart

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Walmart is selling a few iPads at really good prices and, as opposed to last time, these are ranked much higher.

Here are the specs:

iPad Air 32GB with Wifi and AT&T for $350 - There is silver and space gray available and you can buy 2 of each color

These sell for $415-$430 on Amazon, depending on the color.

United Shopping Now Earning 4x Miles on eBay Purchases

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You can now earn 4x United Miles for eBay purchases when you start purchasing through the United Shopping Portal.  

MacBook 13" on Sale on eBay - Reselling Moneymaker

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Update: 5pm ET - about 200 left.  There were 350 when I posted about 3 and a half hours ago.
Update 2: 10:40pm ET - about 30 left.


eBay has the MacBook 13" MVE2LL/A for $799 without tax everywhere except NJ.  It sells for about $895 on Amazon.  Max of 2 per person.