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Feb

Staples will begin selling Apple products soon.

That’s huge because they’re often major purchases, so small variations in what you get back in miles can make a big difference.

Currently the best you’ll do buying from Apple is one point per dollar in most programs plus a point per dollar for your credit card spending.

But the Chase Ultimate Rewards Mall currently offers 2 points per dollar spent at Staples.

And Staples purchases are office supplies for earning 5 points per dollar with Ink Plus® Business Card and Ink Bold® Business Card. (My referral links, these are the best available offers for the cards — 50,000 bonus points after $5000 spend spend within 3 months.)

That means 7 points per dollar for online Staples purchases, which should soon include Apple products.

What’s more, you can fill up your iTunes account at 5 points per dollar by buying gift cards at Staples.

21 Comments

  1. A. S. said,

    Just FYI, today you can get 2X (not counting the 1 point from the CC spend) at MacMall through the UR mall.

  2. Cleaning Up Odds And Ends From The Week on Sunday, February 17th, 2013 « Pizza In Motion said,

    [...] Just In, 7 Points Per Dollar On Apple Purchases:  Via View From the Wing, Staples is going to start carrying Apple products soon.  I was in the middle of typing this post [...]

  3. goodguy said,

    i don’t like iphones for their tiny size and lack of features so it won’t help

  4. JM said,

    Does the 5x work for online purchases from staples.com and OD.com?

  5. Robert Hanson said,

    @goodguy +1 Paying 3 or 4 times what a non-Apple product costs, and putting up with frustrations like batteries that can’t be replaced when they die, and systems that can’t be upgraded, just to be one of the “cool people” that owns them is something I can do without. That said, if you are going to waste your money on them, at least get as many miles or points as possible.

  6. Nadyne Richmond said,

    If you don’t like a product, isn’t voting with your dollars sufficient? Is there really a pressing reason to be an insufferable prat and telling anyone who passes by, regardless of whether it’s actually relevant to the topic at hand, that only idiots buy the product that you don’t like?

  7. FlyingBear said,

    I am an Android user myself, but the above comments on Apple iPhone are not at all conductive to this discussion. Shouldn’t you be commenting at Endgadget, trying to change their mind?

    Until now, the best deal for Apple products was Discover with 5%. If, as JM asked, online purchases at staples/OD work, this is a nice improvement. Would actually motivate me to apply for that card, as I buy Apple products for friends from time to time :)

  8. Brent said,

    I believe ALL batteries can be replaced when they die in the Macbook Pro line. If you don’t want to do it yourself (unscrewing 10 screws on the bottom) then you can take it to the store to get replaced. In fact, 80% of the time as long as I’ve had Applecare they were kind enough to give me a free battery. Laptops typically have a shelf life of 3-5 years. I’d rather pay twice as much for a laptop where I can walk into a store for free and have someone take a look at the problem in person. Even better, they will overnight you a box to your house and fix it in less than a week. My 10+ years with dealing with the company has been nothing but positive.

    The reason most might go with Macmall with the 2x and not do the 2x + 5x at Staples is due to being charged tax at Staples and not Macmall.

  9. Ozaer N. said,

    Gary–time to change the name of the blog to View from the Register….you are on fire with some sweeet deals!!
    thanks again!

  10. The Miles Professor said,

    that’s great. Although this theoretically doesn’t change too much as we can just buy gift cards from staples and then use them to buy apple products… Those of us with the chase ink bold cards.

  11. Robert Hanson said,

    @Nadyne If you don’t like a {posted comment}, isn’t {moving on to the next one} sufficient? Is there really a pressing reason to be an insufferable prat and telling anyone who passes by, regardless of whether it’s actually relevant to the topic at hand, that only idiots {post comments} that you don’t like? :D

  12. Another Gary said,

    The only downside to this is using Chase to purchase big ticket electronics, rather than AMEX.
    For example, if you were to buy a Mac + AppleCare, you would have 4 years warranty with AMEX, but only 3 with Chase. Chase will only give you a maximum of one year protection, ending up to one year after the ORIGINAL warranty. AMEX will give you up to one year additional protection above the extra two years you’d be getting from AppleCare.
    Chase: Original warranty + one year additional
    or 1 yr Original + 2 yrs AppleCare + 0 yrs additional

    AMEX: Original warranty + one year additional
    or 1 yr original + 2 yrs AppleCare + 1 yr AMEX = 4 years

  13. Nadyne Richmond said,

    @Robert – The fact that you can’t tell the difference between your original comment (and your subsequent little attempt at parody) and mine is just as telling as your need to throw insults out to the world in case there could be someone whose preferences don’t match yours.

  14. Matt said,

    @Nadyne; little biased hu…..especially given your blog. And you sure are not helping the Mac user image. Pretentious, pratty, and full of blind devotion.

  15. FlyingBear said,

    @Matt

    I am not a Mac user and I can tell that Apple bashing in this discussion is asinine. And irrelevant. Personal attacks (see your post) are certainly not helping your image either, as a person, regardless of what you use.

  16. Steelsnow said,

    Just a reminder that Best Buy also carries Apple items, and has had many promotions and deals netting 7x or more in the recent past.

  17. Matt said,

    @ FlyingBear

    There is a definative difference between bashing and mear observation. I subscribe to the later.

  18. Kerry said,

    (3 misspellings/diction errors in 15 words must be some sort of a record.)

  19. Tomt said,

    I was able to get 6x points for buying a iPad via apple store
    1 – 5x points $500 gc at office supply store with Ink
    2- then use those gc thru UR portal at apple store for another 1x points
    3- pick up iPad in store
    4- waited a few days and confirm that I had Rec my 1x point via UR portal. So I was able to get 6x total

  20. Nadyne Richmond said,

    I was wondering how long it would take someone to click through and notice the name of my blog, although apparently not bother to actually read any of the content therein. The name of my personal blog was selected when I was an engineer at Microsoft, working on Office:Mac. I’ve kept the name of the blog since then, although I’m no longer a full-time Mac/iOS developer. Personally, I don’t have any skin in the Windows/Mac/Linux/whatever or the iOS/Android/whatever games at this point. I’ve developed on all of these platforms and more at some point during my career, and I’m sure that will continue.

    I don’t think that I’ve displayed blind devotion here. I’ve merely asked what the point is of bashing products and those who use them on a post that is about how to get more points for some products. I didn’t give my opinion about products made by Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Samsung, Google, Motorola, Sony, or anyone else. (For full disclosure, I own stock in several of the companies that I’ve just mentioned, aside from having been professionally employed by some of them during my career too.) Gary’s posted plenty of points-earning opportunities for products/services that I’m not interested in purchasing myself, but I’m glad that he’s so thorough and posts such things anyway.

    That’s the awesome thing about this world: we get to have different tastes, different desires, different needs. I don’t get the point of going around and telling others who have different tastes, desires, or needs that they’re idiots for it. I don’t see the point of bashing products and people who use them. Which is why I haven’t done it, although I have questioned why one would feel the need to do so.

  21. chris said,

    “Apple Accessories, now at Staples”
    http://www.staples.com/Apple/cat_SC1949

    not (yet) the announcement we were waiting for.

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