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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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Written by E28M5
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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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Nov 27, 2025 03:23 AM
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frumplyNov 27, 2025 03:23 AM
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Quote from edgeh2o :
So I made another big purchase and the new offer went from saved to completed status after. Pending points showed up an hour later, but unfortunately not the full 20%. Only 1736 points from a $450 purchase which when added to my previous purchases this last week brings my grand total to exactly 25000.

Was hoping the new "offer" would have been separate from the overall $250 cap but I guess not. It just added to my previous points and cut off at 25000. If that makes sense
That makes sense. I got a $489 gpu and $749 gpu, so in theory would have like 200 points remaining for dispensing. Would make sense why it says offer is still saved. Guess if that's how it is there's no point in trying to time the purchase of another card now that I got the capital one offer figured out.
Nov 27, 2025 03:25 AM
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m1ghtNov 27, 2025 03:25 AM
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I carefully read the original terms and found "per purchase" and "per account" both showed up multiple times, almost interchangeably.
I let my SO read it, and they concurred.
I quickly started experiment by placing a $1250+ order, paying back immediately, and placing a second one.
Both transactions showed full pending points (20% of total), not even limited by $1250.
Furthermore, during the checkout process, there were clear wording that we would earn 20% of purchases, up to $1250 per transaction.
I looked up the news and found a fund called "Blue Owl Capital" had recently invested $7 billion in PayPal Pay in 4.
Now it makes sense. Paypal is just burning VC fund. They had the money and they didn't care.
We decided to take calculated risk and place 10+ orders, paying local tax and utilities.
We ended up raking about $3,000 points.

Today's email is kind of a verification that our theory works, saying they would honor original offer terms.
I'm pretty sure the original terms were not vetted by legal, but were drafted by some marketing team with the assistance of ChatGPT.
New term no longer has "per transaction" wordings.
Last edited by m1ght November 26, 2025 at 08:27 PM.
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Nov 27, 2025 03:27 AM
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defjukieNov 27, 2025 03:27 AM
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Why are people still arguing in this thread? Deal is over. All the wining about "abuse" - we played by PayPal's own rules.
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Nov 27, 2025 03:28 AM
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vsauceNov 27, 2025 03:28 AM
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Quote from m1ght :
Today's email is kind of a verification that our theory works, saying they would honor original offer terms.
I'm pretty sure the original terms were not vetted by legal, but were drafted by some team with the assistance of ChatGPT.
New term no longer has "per transaction" wordings.
The syntax is irrelevant, it's how the system was programmed that is most important
Nov 27, 2025 03:28 AM
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shaxsNov 27, 2025 03:28 AM
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Well, I was trying to buy a 3d printer for a Total USD $1,189.05. I have the offer in my account, a credit score over 800 and I get:

Total balance on your outstanding Pay in 4 loans or the Pay in 4 loan amount you requested is too high.

Any clue as to why I am getting this when it is under the threshold of $1250?
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Nov 27, 2025 03:28 AM
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TheEdge
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Nov 27, 2025 03:28 AM
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Quote from StrongManatee366 :
Yeah,dumbass, that's why the terms were changed midway through the offer period.
You clearly missed my sarcasm.
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Nov 27, 2025 03:30 AM
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defjukieNov 27, 2025 03:30 AM
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Quote from vsauce :

The syntax is irrelevant, it's how the system was programmed that is most important
seems like it was also programmed by a chatbot, lol. They weren't enforcing a single one of their terms
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Nov 27, 2025 03:33 AM
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jmecherulNov 27, 2025 03:33 AM
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Quote from m1ght :
I carefully read the original terms and found "per purchase" and "per account" both showed up multiple times, almost interchangeably.
I let my SO read it, and they concurred.
I quickly started experiment by placing a $1250+ order, paying back immediately, and placing a second one.
Both transactions showed full pending points (20% of total), not even limited by $1250.
Furthermore, during the checkout process, there were clear wording that we would earn 20% of purchases, up to $1250 per transaction.
I looked up the news and found a fund called "Blue Owl Capital" had recently invested $7 billion in PayPal Pay in 4.
Now it makes sense. Paypal is just burning VC fund. They had the money and they didn't care.
We decided to take calculated risk and place 10+ orders, paying local tax and utilities.
We ended up raking about $3,000 points.

Today's email is kind of a verification that our theory works, saying they would honor original offer terms.
I'm pretty sure the original terms were not vetted by legal, but were drafted by some marketing team with the assistance of ChatGPT.
New term no longer has "per transaction" wordings.
yeah, PP has made 5 billion in profit after tax so far this year. do you think 15 or 20 million matters? and, they got some of it back by charging the retailers to offer payin4 (someone mentioned 5%)

by the way, I think I was too late to the game since they cut off my payin4 after a coupld transactions a few days ago. i would have used it more if I knew.
Last edited by jmecherul November 26, 2025 at 08:36 PM.
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Nov 27, 2025 03:36 AM
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IndigoRiver442Nov 27, 2025 03:36 AM
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Quote from jmecherul :
yeah, PP has made 5 billion in profit after tax so far this year. do you think 15 or 20 million matters? and, they got some of it back by charging the retailers to offer payin4 (someone mentioned 5%)
It probably matter when you're accountable to shareholders

https://www.google.com/finance/qu...?window=5Y
Nov 27, 2025 03:42 AM
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jmecherulNov 27, 2025 03:42 AM
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Quote from IndigoRiver442 :
It probably matter when you're accountable to shareholders

https://www.google.com/finance/qu...?window=5Y [google.com]
that 5 years does look bad. they are making a lot of cash but probably less than they used to. again, you don't loose money unless you sell, and they pay a dividend. I am sure the funds made a bunch of money but wankers are greedy.
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Nov 27, 2025 03:42 AM
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MagentaLumber2722Nov 27, 2025 03:42 AM
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Quote from shaxs :
Well, I was trying to buy a 3d printer for a Total USD $1,189.05. I have the offer in my account, a credit score over 800 and I get:

Total balance on your outstanding Pay in 4 loans or the Pay in 4 loan amount you requested is too high.

Any clue as to why I am getting this when it is under the threshold of $1250?
I'm in the same boat. I got the same error but for a <$1000 purchase. My first time using PayPal Pay-in-4 and promos so this is disappointing
Nov 27, 2025 03:45 AM
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jmecherulNov 27, 2025 03:45 AM
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Quote from MagentaLumber2722 :
I'm in the same boat. I got the same error but for a <$1000 purchase. My first time using PayPal Pay-in-4 and promos so this is disappointing
Because paypal does not care about our credit scores. stupid, I know. I guess some AI is not so intelligent after all.
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Nov 27, 2025 03:49 AM
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sixstringaxisNov 27, 2025 03:49 AM
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Quote from MichaelM5898 :
And just as a data point for people: I received the email earlier today saying I hit the limit. Made another purchase just now with pay in 4, and I have no points showing up for the purchase, unlike every other time I got something earlier in the deal. So yeah, if your offer says "Completed, you did it!" on it, it doesn't mean that you get one more purchase, it means it's dead for you.
Is the promo still showing on your papal rewards page? I got the email but mines still there
Nov 27, 2025 03:51 AM
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jmecherulNov 27, 2025 03:51 AM
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Quote from sixstringaxis :
Is the promo still showing on your papal rewards page? I got the email but mines still there
The promo is showing on my wife's account as valid, but she got the email. Payin4 or monthly does not show if I try to make a purchase. Stupid.

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Nov 27, 2025 03:56 AM
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IndigoRiver442Nov 27, 2025 03:56 AM
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Quote from jmecherul :
The promo is showing on my wife's account as valid, but she got the email. Payin4 or monthly does not show if I try to make a purchase. Stupid.
Was the purchase more than $1500?

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