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Staples - Free paper ream (Nov 10 - 16)

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Boomer2

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

Anyone else confirm the same deal in there town? or just a local thingy?
 
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.
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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....
 
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?
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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.
 
A ream is the little "brick" of paper... 500 sheets to be exact.

edit: ack, not quick enough I guess 🙂
 
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 😉
 
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.
 
$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.
 
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.
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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..
 
Originally posted by: mavrik101
Originally posted by: kerokeroppi82
Anyone know if this works in CA?
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It's a nationwide promo so yes it's good in CA
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I'll be there on Sunday with my empty cartridge (I bought the cartridge at ebay for $2+ each for Epson 860 printer) 🙂
 
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.
 
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.

 
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