Staples - Free paper ream (Nov 10 - 16)

[Boomer2]

The local store (Phoenix, AZ on Camelback Rd) rammed a flier in my bag about giving a free ream of paper to anyone who brought in a spent/used up inkjet ink cartridge Nov 10-16. Some kind of environmental thingy.

Free is good.

 

[huesmann]

Oh yeah, kill trees for free!

 

[Wazing2]

Agreed ----- FREE IS GOOD!!!

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: huesmann
Oh yeah, kill trees for free!

Yeah, like he said: an environmental thingy!

 

[alfonsors]

Time to go through my garbage ... just threw one out.

Anyone else confirm the same deal in there town? or just a local thingy?

 

[Ketteringo]

Originally posted by: Boomer2
The local store (Phoenix, AZ on Camelback Rd) rammed a flier in my bag about giving a free ream of paper to anyone who brought in a spent/used up inkjet ink cartridge Nov 10-16. Some kind of environmental thingy.

Free is good.

I dont know about environmental but I am pretty sure that most cheap inkjet cartridge places just refill used ones or generic ones and I have a feeling this might be how they get the used ones....

 

[plasticquart]

I'm dumb... but is a "ream" of paper one of those boxes of paper? or is it one of those 3 inch thick blocks of paper?

 

[Pardus]

I'm dumb... but is a "ream" of paper one of those boxes of paper? or is it one of those 3 inch thick blocks of paper?

A ream is 500 sheets, usually the individual packs inside the cases, staples sells them for $4.79 each

You can never have enough printer paper. Gotta see if the staples by me is doing this too.

 

[Phil938]

A ream is the little "brick" of paper... 500 sheets to be exact.

edit: ack, not quick enough I guess

 

[dentalboy]

hot deal too bad no ink jet running low yet.
nation wide?

 

[QSnexus]

I have a feeling that a used inkjet cartridge is more valuable than a box of paper. They probably sell these back to a company who refills your cartridge and is resold for more than $4.79. That is a pretty good profit generating system. I bet the printer manufacturing co's love to see people giving away their empty inkjet cartridges as well, most of which can be refilled very simply for a few bucks instead of $35+ that they sell them for retail

 

[DUKAT1]

How closely do they inspect the old cartridges? I have some old lexmark's that I refilled again & again, until they finally won't work anymore.

It would be a hot deal for me if I could trade in these worthless & not reuseable cartridges (at least not by me ) for some usable paper.

 

[Gilby]

$4.79 for a used cartridge? I could retire a millionaire if that were true. I can get new generics from Megatoners for less than $2 each for my Cannon BJC6000, and the Epson my wife uses in her classroom has generics available for $1.25.

 

[billmaine2001]

um.....I thought a ream was when someone...oh nevermind. this is probably off topic.

 

[QSnexus]

Originally posted by: Gilby
$4.79 for a used cartridge? I could retire a millionaire if that were true. I can get new generics from Megatoners for less than $2 each for my Cannon BJC6000, and the Epson my wife uses in her classroom has generics available for $1.25.

Totally depends on what printer you have.. my HP cartridge is worth $22.90 for the black and $22.90 for the color cartridge (very popular type of cartridges) at www.megatoners.com. Certainly not worth trading in for a ream of paper but I guess that all depends, like if I couldn't refill it anymore. Now if the trade-in were for 500 sheets of photo quality inkjet paper then this would be quite a different response! It does seem a little ironic that they would be doing this for environmental reasons..

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: billmaine2001
um.....I thought a ream was when someone...oh nevermind. this is probably off topic.

At least use some lube when you do that...

 

[TekDemon]

The reason it's for environmental reasons is that the paper is recycled paper and not tree killing paper

 

[huesmann]

Is it 100% recycled?

 

[kerokeroppi82]

Anyone know if this works in CA?

 

[mavrik101]

Originally posted by: kerokeroppi82
Anyone know if this works in CA?

It's a nationwide promo so yes it's good in CA

 

[The_Dude8]

Originally posted by: kerokeroppi82
Anyone know if this works in CA?

i think it's nationwide. i recieve an email from staples.com.

 

[wjones]

Originally posted by: mavrik101

Originally posted by: kerokeroppi82
Anyone know if this works in CA?

It's a nationwide promo so yes it's good in CA

I'll be there on Sunday with my empty cartridge (I bought the cartridge at ebay for $2+ each for Epson 860 printer)

 

[Gilby]

Right, but the deal is for any cartridge. Including the ones that cost a buck and change new. Yeah, I suppose someone without much sense could trade in an empty $25 cartridge, but stupidity can ruin any deal.

 

[allisolm]

Link to the paper being offered.

Item #492071 Reg. price $3.59.
84 brightness for good image contrast and readability. Contains 30% post-consumer content.