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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 22, 2025 10:05 PM
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joogleNov 22, 2025 10:05 PM
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anyone receive confirmation if the max points back is on a combination of purchases?
Nov 22, 2025 10:14 PM
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GenerXmanNov 22, 2025 10:14 PM
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Quote from MichaelM5898 :
Can you do anything besides run terms and conditions through ChatGPT? I swear, that's all I've seen you do in this thread.
I wasn't using ChatGPT in my latest. You realize there are multiple LLM's out there, right? I used a few, but only AFTER I had read the terms fully and carefully analyzing what they mean. Some of the statements in the terms just don't match up with a participant limit of combined transactions and only make sense that it's a PER PURCHASE limit. And I simply used AI to confirm by allowing it to see the full terms, not a single line as some others have done, which can be misleading on its own.

Full breakdown:

https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=180419071&postcount=1623

I've also answered quite a few other questions unrelated to this that didn't involve AI at all.
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TheEdge
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Quote from GenerXman :
No, that's the terms on the 20% offer.

See:

https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=180395332&postcount=1464&peid=59e24db9-b61d-4348-862a-5c098f7ad40a

I also ran the terms through a different AI engine, and it agrees with me also:

This caps any single Eligible Purchase at $250 in rewards (25,000 Points), regardless of the rate (5% or 20%).
At 5%, that means rewards on up to $5,000 per purchase (5% of $5,000 = $250).
At 20%, that means rewards on up to $1,250 per purchase (20% of $1,250 = $250).

It explicitly ties to "each" and "per" purchase, so the cap is transaction-specific, not an aggregate across multiple purchases. There's no language limiting you to one such maxed-out purchase.

How This Applies to the 20% Special Offer Period (Nov 17–Dec 8, 2025)

The terms state: "Eligible Participants will earn Points equivalent to 20% cash back on one or more Eligible Purchases up to $1,250 spent."

The "$1,250 spent" phrasing is ambiguous on its own—it could be read as a total across all purchases or per purchase.
But combining it with the "maximum of 25,000 Points... per Eligible Purchase" line, it's clear the $1,250 limit (and thus $250 reward) applies per transaction.

Official PayPal help docs confirm this: "There is no cap on how much cash back you can earn in total over the duration of the campaign" (beyond the global pool), and they note "caps per transaction given loan maximums." Independent deal trackers also interpret it as "$1,250 in spend per transaction," allowing multiple uses.

Bottom line for 20%: No total per-participant limit beyond what's possible via multiple purchases. You could theoretically earn $250 per qualifying purchase, as long as each is ≤$1,250 and uses Pay in 4 or Pay Monthly. (E.g., two $1,250 purchases = $500 total rewards at 20%.) Pay in 4 maxes at $1,500 per purchase anyway, so you'd hit the reward cap at $1,250 spend there.
I just talked to Martin from Paypal over the phone. He wasn't sure if the $1250 was total spend or single transaction. He was honest and said he'd rather be slow with the truth than fast with a lie... so he reached out to that department. He got back to me and said that it is a transactional cap. I confirmed with him by saying "so I can keep spending and getting 20% since I'm already well over $1,250 across multiple transactions" to which he replied "yes".

Even though he was confident, I called back and solicited yet another rep's thoughts. They transferred me to the approrpriate department and Jane echoed what Martin had said. It's a transactional limit, not a total spend cap. She said the cap for total transactions is $5,000.

FWIW, I also ran it through Perplexity (yet another LLM that you may or may not have tried) and it also spit out that same result -- $1,250 cap of getting the full 20% per transaction; aggregate cap is $5,000.

From Perplexity...

Quote :
Therefore, the $1,250 limit is a cap on spending per transaction (Eligible Purchase) to earn the higher cashback rate, rather than a total cap combined over multiple purchases. Multiple transactions can qualify separately, each up to $1,250, subject to the overall reward pool limits specified. The overall program also has an upper total spend limit of $5,000 during the full Offer Period for earning points, but the $1,250 mentioned relates to the Special Offer Period rate per purchase.
Last edited by TheEdge November 22, 2025 at 03:57 PM.
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defjukieNov 22, 2025 10:56 PM
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Amazing that PayPal was able to come up with such ambiguous terms for this offer, lol
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iCEifer
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Quote from defjukie :
Amazing that PayPal was able to come up with such ambiguous terms for this offer, lol
Yeap. It seems no matter what we or AI thinks it's all up to whatever they want to do and we'll have to wait till they revise terms, clarify via email, or points actually hit.
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PseybertNov 22, 2025 11:40 PM
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Datapoint:

Even though I was frozen from a pending charge, Pay in 4 popped back up to me and I threw another $1k into Best Buy! It's now gone again, along with Pay Monthly. I now have over $250 worth of pending points.
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Xplic1T
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Temu is no go with this right ?
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slvrdrgn123Nov 22, 2025 11:46 PM
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Keeps failling for me saying amount requested was too high. It was only $1270 though. Now the pay in 4 is gone for me.
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IndigoRiver442Nov 23, 2025 12:08 AM
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Interesting, I tried using it for fourth time (first time today) and got my first application denial for Pay in 4. All previous purchases paid off. Anyone else use it four or more times successfully?

Edit: Denial message "Total balance on your outstanding Pay in 4 loans or the Pay in 4 loan amount you requested is too high."

It the was the same amount as each previous order. I wonder if I just hit a limit? I didn't check my spending power before hand so maybe that's it, it's blank now but I could've sworn it was at like $1300 earlier.
Last edited by IndigoRiver442 November 22, 2025 at 05:41 PM.
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StrongManatee366Nov 23, 2025 12:09 AM
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Quote from slvrdrgn123 :
Keeps failling for me saying amount requested was too high. It was only $1270 though. Now the pay in 4 is gone for me.
I think limit is $1,250
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frumplyNov 23, 2025 12:16 AM
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Does it help future purchases at all to just immediately pay off the pay in 4 amount? I made a $500 purchase today and if the deal is still around may make a $699 one on Wed/Thur.
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megamawaxNov 23, 2025 12:22 AM
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Did your Pay in 4 come back today?
Unfortunately, no. I'll try again tomorrow, though.
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GenerXmanNov 23, 2025 12:33 AM
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Quote from TheEdge :
I just talked to Martin from Paypal over the phone. He wasn't sure if the $1250 was total spend or single transaction. He was honest and said he'd rather be slow with the truth than fast with a lie... so he reached out to that department. He got back to me and said that it is a transactional cap. I confirmed with him by saying "so I can keep spending and getting 20% since I'm already well over $1,250 across multiple transactions" to which he replied "yes".

Even though he was confident, I called back and solicited yet another rep's thoughts. They transferred me to the approrpriate department and Jane echoed what Martin had said. It's a transactional limit, not a total spend cap. She said the cap for total transactions is $5,000.

FWIW, I also ran it through Perplexity (yet another LLM that you may or may not have tried) and it also spit out that same result -- $1,250 cap of getting the full 20% per transaction; aggregate cap is $5,000.

From Perplexity...
Oh great! It's good to see multiple Paypal reps getting confirmation from the correct dept. Thank you for reporting back.
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spacemanvtNov 23, 2025 12:37 AM
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Quote from TheEdge :
I just talked to Martin from Paypal over the phone. He wasn't sure if the $1250 was total spend or single transaction. He was honest and said he'd rather be slow with the truth than fast with a lie... so he reached out to that department. He got back to me and said that it is a transactional cap. I confirmed with him by saying "so I can keep spending and getting 20% since I'm already well over $1,250 across multiple transactions" to which he replied "yes".

Even though he was confident, I called back and solicited yet another rep's thoughts. They transferred me to the approrpriate department and Jane echoed what Martin had said. It's a transactional limit, not a total spend cap. She said the cap for total transactions is $5,000.

FWIW, I also ran it through Perplexity (yet another LLM that you may or may not have tried) and it also spit out that same result -- $1,250 cap of getting the full 20% per transaction; aggregate cap is $5,000.

From Perplexity...
Everyone PLEASE stop calling
this is going to ruin the deal the more people keep asking

Second, you can run it through AI all you want. Noone has any idea if Paypal will change the terms and consider your points invalid after $250 total. Seems like this a complete clusterf*ck as far as PayPal is concerned.
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IndigoRiver442Nov 23, 2025 12:40 AM
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Quote from frumply :
Does it help future purchases at all to just immediately pay off the pay in 4 amount? I made a $500 purchase today and if the deal is still around may make a $699 one on Wed/Thur.
It restores your spending power. If the current amount is more than $700 (plus any taxes) you don't need to.

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