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I like Office Depot, cause they have Free Next Day Shipping. However, I was on the phone with one of the customer reps the other day looking for an item and this lady was kinda feisty with me. Maybe she was having a bad day.

Anyway, who do you use? Know one that is better than Office Depot?

Before I was an admin I was a Customer Service Rep at Quill, which is now owned by Staples. I always thought they had pretty good deals on stuff. You get free shipping on anything over $45 and if you're lucky enough to be near one of their distribution centers, ordering in the morning usually means you'll get something same day or next day without paying extra. You can order online or by phone.

Our company has a blanket purchase request with SANDIA OFFICE SUPPLIES. We live in the Southwest and this is a big player in the office supplies industry.  Before they got the contract, we had OfficeMax.

I've found office Max to be the cheapest and they do next day shipments and no shipping cost on orders over $50.00.

Oh it can be hard to find items you need on online shopping, but you can also get the stores cataloge that lists every item they sell and it's item number, so you can look it up online to see a bigger visual and more discription. I've delt with Office Depot and Office Max on the phone and both are very helpful if you like ordering by phone. I've just found Office Max to be the cheapest and I'm all about the best deals or sales.

I also use Stapleslink. I like that the order minimum for free shipping is only $30 instead of the $50 i used to pay at Office Depot. Plus they give me a card i take to their Staples store and I get my stapleslink prices (which have been lower than Depot and Office Max). I do all my printing and binding at the store because I get 10% off with my card. Their customer service has been really patient with me, they don't seem to mind helping me find stuff (which is all the time). I live in Bradenton/Sarasota and my rep who signed me up from Staples was really helpful and friendly. He still emails me from time to time even though I have an account manager. If you live in Florida email him at staples.com">jacob.smith@staples.com.

I use to do all the ordering of supplies for my firm as well and if your in the Mass., N.J. areas I suggest you try W.B. Mason, they're a company based out of Brockton, MA but I know you can check them out online as well and they state they ship UPS (which I assume that's for anyone not in those two states) if you are in Mass. or N.J. then they will deliever by their own trucks next day delievery and I believe they also offer free shipping for orders over $50.00.

I find they have lower prices than all the other supply stores in this area (like Staples, Office Depot, Office Max, etc.) and if you set up an account with them, they will assign a Rep. to handle all your needs and if you ever find an item that is listed as a lower price at any of the Major chain stores, you can call your Rep. and WB Mason will match that price or in some cases I've gotten them to go even lower than the other companies.  In most cases they will do just about anything to accommodate you.  And if you ever need to return anything you can just call them and they will send out the new item and the drive will take back the incorrect item or damaged item.

Their customer service people are pretty nice too, every time I have ever had to call them they are very pleasant and also accommodating.

Outside of WB Mason, I have on very few occasion used Staples because you can get a business account with them and they will give you reward points and stuff (you would have to check that out to see exactly what they give you).  But on that rare occasion it was due to the fact that WB Mason either did not carry that particular brand item or the exact style I needed or something like that, but in 99% of the time they have the same exact items places like Staples has, and they are much better prices.    www.wbmason.com   

At my last job, we used Staples, and I was extremely happy with their service.  We had used Office Depot prior to Staples, but we had some fraud on one of our cards.  We cancelled the card and had a new one reissued.  Two months later, they put new charges through on the cancelled card, and we had to jump through all kinds of hoops to get the charges dismissed.  Needless to say, our finance director was less than happy with them, and we moved to Staples.  Never had a single customer support issue with them.  They were great, and we got next day shipping on almost all of our orders, with free shipping if you ordered over $40 at a time.

I'm based in the UK and i use Easycrane for my office supplies.

I have found from previous experience that it is best to get a quote in writing from an office supplies company and get them to beat all your current price (if you already have a supplier). You can see some great savings instantly.

I've always gone for smaller businesses and local ones too as i find you get a much more personal service

when it comes to postage meter ink, we use www.inkoncall.com

Discount prices plus their ink carts are USPS approved!

I buy my own basic supplies.  That way I can get exactly what I like.

I work for a state run organization and each department has its own budget.  The budget is very small and is replenished only once a year.  If we use up our funds before the end of the fiscal year, we can't order any further supplies until the beginning of the new fiscal year.  It just makes more sense for each of us to buy our own personal items for our desks.  Major purchases such as paper, toner, etc come out of the budget.