Im pretty familiar with the staples program. I drop off my 10 cartridges every month and buy my $30 worth of ink every 6 months which is nice. The problem is that I pickup and accumulate a lot more than 10 cartridges per month so, the program will never keep up with the amount that is coming in. So, if I have 200 ink cartridges I can save 30-40 cartridges for the staples program and auction off the rest on ebay. My new strategy with recycling ink cartridges is using 3 different avenues which works if you pickup a lot more cartridges than 10 per month and here are the avenues:
1. First, pick an ink cartridge buyer and save all of the ink cartridges that are on their price list. Save them until you have enough to send a shipment.
2. Second, for all ink cartridges that are not on your buyers prices list, save them for staples rewards until you have enough to comfortably send 10 every month. (I like to set aside 40 or so for staples rewards)
3. Third, once you have enough saved for staple reward for several months, save up enough to auction at least 100 cartridges on ebay.
Conclusion, So instead of relying on one avenue for ink cartridge recycling I do three avenues. So instead of just doing staples rewards, I do staples rewards+ ink buyer+ ebay auctions. This will only work if you get lot of cartridges every month.
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