How to Shop at OfficeMax.com
What to do
- Visit Ebates.com. Log in.
If you need an account, you can register for one for free. We suggest using a registration email. To learn more about Ebates, read our article Cash Back Sites Explained.
- At Ebates:
- Search for ‘OfficeMax’.
- On the results page, click on the OfficeMax.com link. You go to the main OfficeMax.com page.
Because you clicked through Ebates, you get 4% cash back on most purchases at OfficeMax.com.
Currently, you can receive free shipping on your purchase at OfficeMax.com if you spend over $50. Some restrictions apply, so check the Website for more details.
- As soon as you complete your purchase, visit PriceProtectr.com.
For each item you purchased at OfficeMax.com, submit the direct link for OfficeMax.com along with your email address to PriceProtectr. The direct link is the url in the address bar for that item when you are viewing it at OfficeMax.com. We suggest giving PriceProtectr.com your personal email. The service is free.
A little more
From what we have found, OfficeMax.com rarely offers coupon codes, so there is no need to check for these codes when shopping at the site.
The best strategy we could find is to simply visit OfficeMax.com through Ebates to get 4% cash back into your Ebates account.
Next - it is not common knowledge, but OfficeMax.com has a price drop policy. It works like this: if the price of an item you bought at OfficeMax.com drops within 14 days of purchase, OfficeMax.com will credit you the difference. But there are two catches:
- You have to monitor the price to find out when the drop happens.
- You have to ask OfficeMax.com for the price refund.
PriceProtectr.com makes these two steps easy for you. For each item you purchase at OfficeMax.com, submit the product’s url to PriceProtectr.com right after you purchase the item. We suggest using your personal email address at PriceProtectr.com, only because you’ll learn of price drops right away. If you check your registration email everyday too, then use that one.
If the price drops at OfficeMax.com on any of the items you’ve recorded, PriceProtectr.com will send you a link to OfficeMax.com’s price drop policy page, which includes instructions on how you can ask for a refund of the price difference. Think of using PriceProtectr.com as an easy way to hedge your bets against price drops at OfficeMax.com. In other words, using our strategy could get you savings before and after you make your purchase.
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