$20 Off $75 Purchases at Toys 'R' Us On-Line When You Use Paypal

Right now, Toy 'R' Us on-line website is offering $20.00 off $75.00 purchases when you pay with Paypal. The Paypal option will be available once you proceed through checkout. It's a nice way to get some extra savings on a something you may be picking up for Christmas.

To check out the deals at Toys 'R' Us, click here.

15% Off Southwest Roundtrip Via PayPal™

If you have travel plans coming up between now and January 31st and might be able to use Southwest Airlines to make that trip, here's a way to save 15% more. You can register for a unique code that will be e-mailed you from PayPal™. This will take 15% off a roundtrip fare on Southwest if you pay through your PayPal™ account.

If you don't yet have an account, you can register for one for free.

Purchase must be made by December 1st, 2009 for travel through January 31st, 2010. The discount doesn't apply to senior fares, Ding specials, nor to taxes and fees.

It doesn't cost anything to make the request, so if you're at all thinking you might make a trip, it's probably worth getting the code in case. To request your free 15% code, click this link.

Today at Buy.com: $15 Back on Any $75 Purchase Using PayPal

Looking to get some extra savings on some already reduced prices at buy.com. They have a one-day promotion going where you get $15 back on any purchase over $75 (excluding tax/shipping)when you use PayPal to make your payment.

The maximum amount of cash back per PayPal account is $30.00. The cash back will be deposited into your PayPal account by January 31, 2009.

Hey, a nice extra bonus is nice before the holidays. To see the details of the offer and shop at buy.com, click Receive $15 cash back on purchases of $75 or more when you check out using Paypal. Coupon valid ONLY on December 19, 2008.

Extra Savings: Get Back 25% of Your Purchase at OfficeMax by Paying with PayPal

One way to help make your money go further is to capitalize on extra ways to combine savings from one program with savings from another. Examples can include coupons you find for department stores that you can apply to items which have already been discounted. Or programs by credit cards for extra savings at a store or a travel site.

With these kinds of offers, you can spend a bit of time searching for the best deals you can find at those stores for some initial savings and then use the second promotion to make the savings stand out.

Now until September 30th, you can receive an extra 25% back at OfficeMax by using PayPal to pay for your purchase. That's on top of any sale prices you might find looking at OfficeMax deals.

There's no minimum purchase amount to qualify, although OfficeMax offers free shipping once your order exceeds $50.00.

The maximum amount of PayPal cash-back you can receive under this program is $50.00, meaning an order (or orders) totaling $200.00 will reach that limit per PayPal account.

So let's say you find an item at OfficeMax that's reduced in price from $300.00 down to $200.00; you can pay with PayPal and after the cash-back, your net expenditure will have been just $150.00.

Not bad -- extra savings just for using a different method of payment!

Click this link for all the details and instructions on using this offer.

Cyber Monday -- A Few Nice Deals, But...

Last year was the first time I heard the term Cyber-Monday, about which I heard after-the-fact. It's the Monday after Black Friday when on-line retailers were trying to do their equivalent of Black Friday and offer exceptional deals on-line to boost sales. Today is Cyber-Monday, and while retailers are offering Cyber one-day specials, it's tough for many to outdo what they did on Black Friday. After all, many retailer on Black Friday also offered their specials on-line that day as well.


I have checked out some sites and whether the deals are any special basically comes down to whether you are looking for the items they placed on special. It's not necessarily anything amazing across-the-board.

Probably the standout I saw so far was Home Depot cutting a price for a 2-person corner whirlpool bath from $1,169 down to $599 including shipping. Here's the Home Depot link.

Walmart is going to be offering special items each day this week. Here's a link to their Cyber Monday specials. If you know someone into action figures like Star Wars or Spiderman, the 4-for-$20 bundle may be of interest.

(Word is that the Leapster LeapFrog TV Learning System will be half-price at $25 on Wednesday of this week.)

Other vendors have specials going on, like Zales, Ace Hardware, Circuit City, Staples and many others, so it's a day to surf (even if it's cold where I'm sitting)...

The PayPal cashback offer at many dealers is also worth noting (see previous post I just updated), and don't forget to see about using eBates and getting even more cash back (see the link in the left column if you're not yet registered for eBates).

PayPal Promotion for Extra Savings -- Especially Monday November 26th

Update Nov 26th -- a number of other vendors have added the PayPal 20% promotion to their sites, and most are probably for today only. I had mentioned Toys 'R' Us but also: Dell, Barnes & Noble, hp, Newegg, eBags, eToys, Guess, Overstock (for $100+ purchases), SkyMall, Ritz Camera, SmartBargains, Blue Nile, EA, Eastbay... this 20% back is separate from any savings you get at the stores, so you can combine this with other deals and get even more of a bargain. The maximum you can get back to PayPal for all your purchases is $50 and it is supposed to credit back into myour account by January 31st.


I saw an e-mail that Toys 'R' Us is having a Cyber-Monday promotion tomorrow with some special prices where they are having some special prices but are also offering an extra 20% cash back if you use PayPal to pay.

For those of you who've never used PayPal, it's a service where you can send payments to anyone with an e-mail account, but can also make payments directly to participating stores. It largely gained traction as a payment system a lot of people used for ebay transactions. When you register for PayPal, you can link it to a bank account as well as to credit card(s). The transactions are secure, and you end up not putting your credit card info into the hands of every store where you shop -- the store/recipient only gets the PayPal info, not how you made the payment into PayPal.

OK, enough basic info about PayPal... here's the savings. I only saw the special offer as far as Toys 'R' Us, but PayPal has this extra promotion going on with other on-line vendors. For example, if you shop at FTD.com and pay with PayPal, you also get an extra 20% back. With drugstore.com, it's $10 back on a $50+ order plus free shipping. Toys 'R' Us is advertising this specifically for their special sale November 26th. Each vendor has their own promo deal with PayPal.

These savings are yours just for using PayPal, so it's extra money back into your pocket for using your credit card with PayPal instead of using your credit card directly into the vendor's checkout process.

Here's a link to the PayPal promotion page showing the various deals they have with different vendors. Their program lasts until December 10th but the specific promotions with stores may be limited only for the period chosen by that on-line store (i.e. Toys 'R' Us may be limited to tomorrow only). You get charged the full amount at checkout, and the money gets credited back into your PayPal account sometime in January.

If you were shopping with one of these places and going to pay on-line anyway, why not let PayPal be the intermediary and claim some extra savings?