Comments on: Staples’ Ink Cartridge Recycling Puts ‘Rewards’ in Your Wallet

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:51:25 +0000

You can get your rebates from staples, office depot, whatever… but ive PERSONALLY seen in the DUMPTSTERS of some of these places bags FULL of inkjet cartridges. Im not saying that every store does this, but its disturbing. Your best bet is having your cartridge remanufactured or refilled. But with that you have to go to a reliable source to ensure quality.

Check out http://www.rapidrefill.com and see if there are any locations near you, they don’t give you a rebate for your empties, but will trade you empties for cartridges they already have refilled and ready to go and you can save anywhere up to 50% over staples(which is keeping mpre in your wallet than what you would have gotten in “staples bucks”) and all that with a 100% guarantee.

You can even take your old cartridges there if nothing more than to just recycle them!

By: Princess

Princess — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:13:42 +0000

I dont blame Staples and office max and others much for not paying up the coupons for the returned empty cartridges and toners. I blame the manufacturers HP et al, they make these toners and cartridges and it saves them production cost to simply refill them so the cost of ink will reduce. they are simply sabotaging recycling because people will know it costs little to do the inks and tripple more to produce the toner packs. you see they do not wish us to know that they are making so much money from recycled ink empties. The government should calculate what each recycled toner cartridge saves the companies at production and pay the customers just 5%. its not too much to ask for such patronage The fact is that the companies are the Rip-offs.

Well it gladens my heart that some smart alecs are making refillable inks so you do not need to buy a new cartridge all the time. you can save your money by buying the cheaper refillables like they do in India. That serves the companies right. They always eat their cakes and want to have it again. Next excuse they will cry reccession and threaten government with bankruptcy.
They are double faced all of them not one is fair.

By: BobRobert

BobRobert — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:56:10 +0000

I returned 11 HP 02 cartridges to Office Max. They told me I would recieve a credit of 3.00 ea “next month”
It did not show up, and all of a sudden any record of this can’t be found. I have the reciept, but their “website” has no record. I am so pissed I could scream.

By: James

James — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:02:46 +0000

We take our cartridges, 20 per month, to the staples in Berkeley. I just hand them the bag with the cartridges in it, give my phone number to link to the rewards card, and tell them 20 (we have gold rewards), they punch it in and I get a 40.00 rewards certificate the next month. They have never even looked thru the bag to verify the quantity or types of cartridges. Staples current recycle is $2.00 per ink/toner up to 10 per month for standard rewards account, and 20 for gold/premium.

By: Derek Henderson

Derek Henderson — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:59:32 +0000

Yep, I heard the same thing yesterday about HP 02 cartridges.

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:53:53 +0000

I’m furious with HP AND Staples for not accepting HP 02 cartridges. Does anyone recycle them?

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:48:27 +0000

We shopped at Office Max a few days ago, and were told that they are not accepting HP 02 ink cartridges anymore!
Can anyone here confirm this??
Thanx!

By: Sim

Sim — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:45:56 +0000

I have also recycled 20 cartridges with Staples and haven’t received any vouchers. It has been 6 months?

By: leanne stout

leanne stout — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:10:18 +0000

i have returned at least 15 ink cartridges and cannot get a refund .staples has the wrong email address. ihave had them chage 3 times but when i check it is always the old address.the number they give me at the store just give me the same runabout to no avail . guess i”ll take them to office depot.i might as well buy my ink there too.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:42:51 +0000

I don’t seen any relevance to recycle with Staples. Their whole store has signs labelled with cost savings and rebate for turning in cartridges…well they are a bunch of liars, I would only want to see cost savings at the cash register. I was misled by their store advertising. It said $2.00 off a cartridge,
and $1.65 in rewards savings, Ha what a laugh. Considering their price for a new cartridges is well above everybody else, I just thought they were making up the difference from recycled cartridges.
So I ended up buying two new cartridges at the highest price I have ever bought since I bought by Printer. I have an Epson 7 cartridge printer, I usually pay about $11.99 at Fry’s (used to be $10.99),
to a whopping $15.99 at Staples, That $118.83 for a full refill and also not worth it. I usually buy online for around $10 ish much better. Although I do wish Epson would have a recycle program like HP has
I want to be evironmentally responsible, but I do want to be recompensated for my old cartridges: the purchase price of a cartridge is too high!!!!! THE DAMN GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE OFFERING REBATES FOR ALL ENVIROMENTAL RECYCLING FOR COMPANIES AND THE BUCK SHOULD BE PASSED ON TO THE CUSTOMER IN THE FORM OF COST SAVINGS.