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expiredE28M5 posted Nov 18, 2025 04:06 AM
expiredE28M5 posted Nov 18, 2025 04:06 AM

Select PayPal Accounts: One Eligible Purchase, Pay Later with PayPal, Get

(Up to $1,250 Spent)

20% Cash Back

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PayPal offers for Select Accounts: One Eligible Purchase, Get 20% Cash Back on Pay Later with PayPal when you save the offer to your PayPal account and pay later using PayPal for online or in-store purchases.
  • Note: Limited to one Eligible Purchase per customer, up to a total of $1,250 in spend. Eligibility may vary by account.
Thanks to Community Member E28M5 for sharing this deal.

Deal Instructions:
  1. Open the PayPal app on your phone (or go to the PayPal website if you're using a browser)
  2. Navigate to the PayPal Rewards section
  3. Look for the offer that says "20% cash back on pay later purchases with PayPal through 12/8"
  4. Once you find it, there should be a "Save offer" button. Tap or click that to activate the offer.
  5. After saving it, make sure you use PayPal Pay Later at checkout (choose "Pay Later" when you pay) to be eligible.

Editor's Notes

Written by Neo45 | Staff
  • When applying for PayPal Pay Later solutions, a soft credit check may be needed, but will not affect your credit score. You must be 18 years old or older when applying for Pay Later
  • Offer reverts to 5% from December 9 - December 31
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • Terms:
    • Offer ends on the earlier of December 2, 2025, at 11:59:59 p.m. PT or when the maximum number of PayPal Rewards Points available under this Offer for all Eligible Participants is reached.
    • For the one Eligible Purchase, each Eligible Participant will receive up to a maximum of 25000 Points, which can be redeemed for up to $250 cash or other options (the "Reward"). Rewards will no longer be earned once the Offer Period has ended. There is a maximum total of 2 billion (2,000,000,000) points available under this offer for all Eligible Participants who have saved the offer and made an Eligible Purchase. Rewards will no longer be available once this limit is reached. If the maximum total of Points available is reached before the end of the Offer Period, this offer will end early.

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PayPal offers for Select Accounts: One Eligible Purchase, Get 20% Cash Back on Pay Later with PayPal when you save the offer to your PayPal account and pay later using PayPal for online or in-store purchases.
  • Note: Limited to one Eligible Purchase per customer, up to a total of $1,250 in spend. Eligibility may vary by account.
Thanks to Community Member E28M5 for sharing this deal.

Deal Instructions:
  1. Open the PayPal app on your phone (or go to the PayPal website if you're using a browser)
  2. Navigate to the PayPal Rewards section
  3. Look for the offer that says "20% cash back on pay later purchases with PayPal through 12/8"
  4. Once you find it, there should be a "Save offer" button. Tap or click that to activate the offer.
  5. After saving it, make sure you use PayPal Pay Later at checkout (choose "Pay Later" when you pay) to be eligible.

Editor's Notes

Written by Neo45 | Staff
  • When applying for PayPal Pay Later solutions, a soft credit check may be needed, but will not affect your credit score. You must be 18 years old or older when applying for Pay Later
  • Offer reverts to 5% from December 9 - December 31
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • Terms:
    • Offer ends on the earlier of December 2, 2025, at 11:59:59 p.m. PT or when the maximum number of PayPal Rewards Points available under this Offer for all Eligible Participants is reached.
    • For the one Eligible Purchase, each Eligible Participant will receive up to a maximum of 25000 Points, which can be redeemed for up to $250 cash or other options (the "Reward"). Rewards will no longer be earned once the Offer Period has ended. There is a maximum total of 2 billion (2,000,000,000) points available under this offer for all Eligible Participants who have saved the offer and made an Eligible Purchase. Rewards will no longer be available once this limit is reached. If the maximum total of Points available is reached before the end of the Offer Period, this offer will end early.

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Cpshell1
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Avoid Aliexpress via Paypal. All, yes ALL, transactions are being processed by Paypal as cash advance! Resulting in Credit Card Issuer inflicting a cash advance transaction fee + accrual of daily interest as high as 28% APR! No way to resolve and all three companies (CC, AE & Paypal) will circle jerk the finger pointing of who is responsible with no solution. Reddit is exploding with many customers getting hit with these fees in the tune of 10's and even 100's of dollars. Avoid!!!
omgitsspooky
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Paying the balance early in Pay Monthly won't violate the terms.
seantan2001
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Remove your PayPal account from eBay payment first. Now after making a purchase, it will redirect you to PayPal, pick 'pay in 4' from there.

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drewpeyNov 21, 2025 09:57 PM
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Declined saying my self reported income was insufficient. Funny because they didn't ask me my income. No one at PayPal can even tell me what info of mine was sent to the credit agency. Thanks for the useless credit pull PayPal!
Nov 21, 2025 09:58 PM
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GenerXmanNov 21, 2025 09:58 PM
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Quote from defjukie :
"During the Special Offer Period, Eligible Participants will earn Points equivalent to 20% cash back on one or more Eligible Purchases up to $1,250 spent."

seems pretty clear to me that you can only get 20% back on up to $1250 per account. They're saying here that you can reach that limit in 1 transaction, or across many. But clearly the limit is $1250 per Eligible Participant.
People need to realize ChatGPT is very, very flawed. It is often very confidently wrong.
You have to understand how to use it and the correct prompts, and it really helps to have a good understanding of many facts going into it and recognize any contradictions or questionable responses that you can follow up on.

But I posted this earlier, which is pretty clear:

After rereading the terms again, it seems pretty clear that the $1250 is per transaction and that you get up to $250 rewards for each.

Exact words " For each Eligible Purchase, each Eligible Participant will receive a maximum of 25000 Points, which can be redeemed for $250 cash or other options (the "Reward") per Eligible Purchase."

I'm very confident this is a per transaction limit. Reading through more of the terms only supports that further. The wording trips some people up.
Last edited by GenerXman November 21, 2025 at 03:02 PM.
Nov 21, 2025 09:59 PM
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hinhamraNov 21, 2025 09:59 PM
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Quote from buy_now_think_later :
Works with limited stores?
This doesn't work with Costco right?
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buy_now_think_laterNov 21, 2025 10:00 PM
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Quote from hinhamra :
This doesn't work with Costco right?
No it does not
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GenerXmanNov 21, 2025 10:03 PM
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Quote from StrongManatee366 :
Use a Citibank or BOA credit card if you have one
Discover worked for me.
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IndigoRiver442Nov 21, 2025 10:08 PM
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Quote from defjukie :
People need to realize ChatGPT is very, very flawed. It is often very confidently wrong.
People don't seem to realize that ChatGPT or "asking Google" isn't an authoritative source on anything, even when it isn't hallucinating. What Paypal wants or intends to say with its wording isn't something that can be decisively inferred, only clarified by Paypal itself. They could add something like "$250 combined total across all purchases per account" or just "$250 max cashback/points per account".

And I've read that eligibility line countless times and I'm still unsure what the intention is. Especially since some people have hit a $250 cap while others haven't. The normal 5% deal supposedly had the cap.
Last edited by IndigoRiver442 November 21, 2025 at 03:13 PM.
Nov 21, 2025 10:08 PM
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chrisp7815Nov 21, 2025 10:08 PM
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I tried at the google store and it just put my order through without being able to select the payment method (in paypal).

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PortlandME
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Nov 21, 2025 10:13 PM
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Quote from Syntax Error :
I'm just surprised so many people are going with gift cards. Terms and conditions seem pretty clear that gift cards will not be covered, so don't be surprised when the 20% cashback doesn't apply or gets clawed back.
But does PayPal even know what you're buying? For example, I assume they only see a $1000 purchase from Home Depot, not that you bought a $1000 Gift Card. Similar to Amex deals, that purchase would always qualify even if the terms state not valid on Gift Card purchases.
Nov 21, 2025 10:14 PM
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defjukieNov 21, 2025 10:14 PM
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Quote from GenerXman :

You have to understand how to use it and the correct prompts, and it really helps to have a good understanding of many facts going into it and recognize any contradictions or questionable responses that you can follow up on.

But I posted this earlier, which is pretty clear:

After rereading the terms again, it seems pretty clear that the $1250 is per transaction and that you get up to $250 rewards for each.

Exact words " For each Eligible Purchase, each Eligible Participant will receive a maximum of 25000 Points, which can be redeemed for $250 cash or other options (the "Reward") per Eligible Purchase."

I'm very confident this is a per transaction limit. Reading through more of the terms only supports that further. The wording trips some people up.
What do you make of the line I quoted, then?
"During the Special Offer Period, Eligible Participants will earn Points equivalent to 20% cash back on one or more Eligible Purchases up to $1,250 spent."
Makes no sense that they'd explicitly state that you can either get 20% on up to $1250 across one or several purchases, unless there was a hard $1250 limit per Participant.
Nov 21, 2025 10:15 PM
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bjaiNov 21, 2025 10:15 PM
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Quote from IndigoRiver442 :
People don't seem to realize that ChatGPT or "asking Google" isn't an authoritative source on anything, even when it isn't hallucinating. What Paypal wants or intends to say with its wording isn't something that can be decisively inferred, only clarified by Paypal itself. They could add something like "$250 combined total across all purchases per account" or just "$250 max cashback/points per account". And I've read that eligibility line countless times and I'm still unsure what the intention is. Especially since some people have hit a $250 cap while others haven't. The normal 5% deal supposedly had the cap.
Im rereading it and it might be just the same promo to earn $250 max. U can either earn that $250 during the first period at 20% of 1250 or second period of 5% of 5000 or do a combination of both. More benefit in period one since u spend less
Nov 21, 2025 10:19 PM
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IndigoRiver442Nov 21, 2025 10:19 PM
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Quote from defjukie :
What do you make of the line I quoted, then?
"During the Special Offer Period, Eligible Participants will earn Points equivalent to 20% cash back on one or more Eligible Purchases up to $1,250 spent."
Makes no sense that they'd explicitly state that you can either get 20% on up to $1250 across one or several purchases, unless there was a hard $1250 limit per Participant.
The problem is that it doesn't clarify whether "$1250 spent" is combined/max per Eligible Participant. So it could sound like you can just keep spending up to $1250 (on things that aren't explicitly excluded) and still get the $250 back per transaction without a transaction number limit. Yeah this is vague.
Last edited by IndigoRiver442 November 21, 2025 at 03:30 PM.
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PortlandME
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Quote from defjukie :
What do you make of the line I quoted, then?
"During the Special Offer Period, Eligible Participants will earn Points equivalent to 20% cash back on one or more Eligible Purchases up to $1,250 spent."
Makes no sense that they'd explicitly state that you can either get 20% on up to $1250 across one or several purchases, unless there was a hard $1250 limit per Participant.
I read it literally… you can earn it on one (if you only make one) or more (if you make more) purchases up to $1250 (each).
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Jedi2155Nov 21, 2025 10:30 PM
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Quote from EagerActivity1630 :
Can someone give a great example of how to use this offer to the maximum? Like gift card purchase? Ty tu
(5) any purchase involving non-profit organizations, gambling, security brokers/dealers, foreign currency/money orders, and stored value cards.

Are specially called out and denied as part of the offer.
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Link4prez
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Anyone else's purchases hanging out in the authorization mode? Up til today I'd usually see my points instantly but my two purchases today have been stuck in authorization

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3rdbassNov 21, 2025 10:39 PM
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Quote from gtsh0pp3r :
Finally pulled trigger on new MacBook Air at Best Buy for $950, so after taxes and 20% back this is about $800, great deal! Thank you
I did the same for the 512 GB version. It is delayed shipping. I prrobably should of just don pick up as BB is less than a mile away from me. LOL!

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