NO PURCHASE OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE
YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

1. Promotion Period: The Staples Holiday Promotion (the “Promotion”, also known as the Gift It For FREE Sweepstakes) begins at 12:00:01 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on November 16, 2008 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET on December 24, 2008 (the “Promotion Period”).

2. How To Enter: During the Promotion Period, when you make a purchase at a participating Staples retail store, online at www.Staples.com, or as a Staples’ Business Delivery customer, you will receive a Receipt Code or online confirmation number with Promotion details to be submitted during the Promotion entry process. You must then visit www.GiftItForFREE.com (the “Website”) and complete all required information on the online registration form, including the Receipt Code or online confirmation number from your purchase, to be entered into the random drawing. You may enter as often as you wish, but you will only receive one entry for each valid Receipt Code submitted. All online entries must be completed and submitted by 11:59:59 p.m. ET on December 24, 2008. Normal Internet access and usage charges imposed by your Internet service provider will apply.

3. Staples Rewards Members: If you are currently a Staples Rewards member, you will receive one (1) automatic entry into the Promotion each time you use your Rewards card to make a purchase at a participating Staples retail store, online at www.Staples.com, or as a Staples’ Business Delivery customer throughout the Promotion Period. If you are not a Staples Rewards member you may sign up anytime online at StaplesRewards.com, in any Staples store or by calling 1-800-793-3320 throughout the Promotion Period and receive an automatic entry for each purchase made with your Staples Rewards card.

4. No Purchase Necessary: If you do not wish to make a purchase, you may enter by hand printing your first and last name, complete address, daytime phone number, email address, date of birth and the phrase “Staples is the place to shop for my holiday gifts” on a plain 3" x 5" paper, and mailing it in a hand-addressed stamped envelope, to: The Staples Holiday Promotion, P.O. Box 7922, Melville, NY 11775-7922. You may enter as often as you wish, but each entry must be mailed separately. Mail-in entries must be postmarked by December 24, 2008 and received by December 31, 2008, to be eligible for the random drawing. Mechanically reproduced entries are automatically void. All entries become property of Staples, the Office Superstore (the “Sponsor”).

5. Eligibility: Open only to legal residents of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older as of date of entry. Employees of Sponsor as defined in Section 10, Don Jagoda Associates, Inc. (the “Administrator”), Web masters and Web suppliers working on the Promotion, their respective parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, advisors, advertising and promotion agencies, and immediate family members of each [parents, siblings, children, (natural, adopted, foster) and spouse], wherever they reside and/or those living in the same household (whether or not related) of each are not eligible.

6. Random Drawing: Winners will be selected in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received. Drawing will be conducted on or about January 7, 2009, by Administrator, an independent judging organization whose decisions are final on all matters relating to this Promotion. Approximate odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received. Limit one prize per person, regardless of how many entries are received from each person. If more than one entry from the same person is selected in the random drawing, that person will win ONLY the amount associated with the first entry that was drawn. The prizes will be awarded by mail and winners will be notified by mail and/or email. Void where prohibited and subject to all federal, state and local laws.

7. Prizes and Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): Prizes (10,000): 10,000 winners will receive a check equal to the total purchase amount, including any sales tax paid, corresponding to the Receipt Code or online confirmation number submitted during their entry, or the purchase made with their Rewards card, with a maximum reimbursement of up to $5,000. In the event a winner entered via the mail-in no purchase method of entry, his/her prize will be determined by randomly selecting a purchase transaction from among all the purchase transactions submitted during the Promotion Period. That randomly selected purchase amount will be the prize he/she wins, up to $5,000. No substitution or transfer of a prize by winner is permitted. All applicable federal, state and local taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the individual winner.

8. General Rules: AN ENTRANT IS NOT A WINNER OF ANY PRIZE UNLESS AND UNTIL ENTRANT’S ELIGIBILITY HAS BEEN VERIFIED. All winners are subject to verification and compliance with Official Rules. If any potential winner returns his/her winning purchase within Sponsor’s 30-day return policy, he/she will not be eligible to receive the corresponding prize. If the value of any winner’s prize is $600 or more, that potential winner will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and liability/publicity release (except where prohibited by law) within ten (10) days of notification attempt or the prize will be forfeited and alternate winner may be selected. If prize or prize notification is returned as non-deliverable, potential winner will be disqualified and an alternate winner may be selected. It is recommended that Rewards members keep their contact information up-to-date in the event they are chosen as a winner and need to be sent their prize or an Affidavit of Eligibility and liability/publicity release in order to confirm their winning status. All material submitted becomes the sole property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Acceptance of a prize constitutes permission to Sponsor and its agencies to use winners’ names, biographical information, pictures/portraits, likenesses and/or voices, for purposes of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law. By accepting a prize, winners agree to hold Sponsor, its respective parents, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, assigns and Administrator, harmless against any and all claims and liability arising out of the Promotion or use of prize. Winners assume all liability for any injury or damage caused, or claimed to be caused, by participation in this Promotion or use or redemption of any prize. By participating in this Promotion, entrants agree to be bound by the Official Rules and the decisions of the judges. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of an entrant, the authorized account holder of the email address (not the account holder of the payment method used to make the purchase) used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. “Authorized account holder” of an email address is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet Access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Sponsor is not responsible for late or misdirected entries, illegible, mis-transcribed or postage-due mailed entries, technical hardware/software failures of any kind, lost/unavailable network connections, or failed/incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmission, which may limit a user’s ability to participate. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel/modify the Promotion or disqualify entrant if fraud, misconduct or technical failures destroy the integrity of the Promotion as determined solely by Sponsor. In the event of termination, a notice will be posted and a random drawing will be held from among all eligible entries received prior to the time of termination and all eligible mailed entries received. Entries generated by script or bot are not eligible. Any attempt by an individual to deliberately damage the Website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion is a violation of criminal/civil laws and should such attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such individual to the fullest extent of the law. Sponsor not responsible for any typographical/other error in printing of Promotion administration/prize announcement or for any liability for damage to any computer system resulting from participation in, accessing or downloading information in connection with this Promotion. As a condition of entering the Promotion, participant agrees that: 1) under no circumstance will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and participant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, consequential or any other damages, other than for out-of-pocket expenses; 2) all causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; and 3) any and all claims, judgments, and award shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and 4) Sponsor and/or Administrator reserves the right to request that a potential winner send his/her original cash register receipt and Receipt Code or online confirmation number as proof of purchase.

9. Winners: Sponsor will post a list of all Potential Winners on or about January 14, 2009 on the Website. After the list has been posted for public viewing, Sponsor will verify all winners and allow up to 30 days for the purchase return period to expire. Any winner who does not comply with the verification process or returns their purchase may not receive their prize and be replaced with an alternate winner. Once the verification is complete, an official winners list will be posted on the Website. For the names of the official winners, available after March 15, 2009, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope, by May 1, 2009, to: The Staples Holiday Promotion Winners, P.O Box 7999, Melville, NY 11775-7999.

10. Sponsor/Administrator: The Sponsor of the Promotion is Staples, the Office Superstore, 500 Staples Drive, Framingham, MA 01702. The Administrator of the Promotion is Don Jagoda Associates, Inc., 100 Marcus Drive, Melville, NY 11747.