Unfortunately this deal now looks to be dead. Follow us on Twitter so you don’t miss out on deals like this again. If it starts working again, please let me know in the comments.
The Offer
- Get 15% off your purchase of $200 in travel e-gift cards from Paypal Digital Gifts
Here are the eligible gift card brands for this sale:
- Southwest
- American
- Delta
- Carnival Cruise Lines
- Princess Cruises
- Celebrity Cruises
- Royal Carribean
There’s no limit on how much you can buy, but you need a minimum  of $200 worth in gift cards in order to trigger the 15% discount. Buy $200 and pay $170, buy $300 and pay $255, etc. Note that while the 15% sale doesn’t seem to have a limit, Paypal will probably limit you after buying 4 or 5 cards, if not sooner.
The Fine Print
- Deal ends in one day (perhaps at midnight tomorrow, 5/18???)
Stack the Deal
There are quite a few stacking that will go on here, along with the 15% discount:
- Get 10% in eBay Bucks if you were targeted, or 2% for people like me who weren’t targeted
- Get 5x INK points for Paypal Digital Gifts purchases
- Go through Shopathome for 1.5% and for their $5 promo (it was extended through May, for those who haven’t already maxed out), or use the shopping portal of your choice
Our Verdict
This is an awesome deal for those who pay for travel; buying travel gift cards on eBay is always a good deal with INK, Bucks, portal, bonus Bucks – the extra 15% makes it much better.
If you stack it right, you should be able to get around 30% off total (15% + 10% + 5x + 1.5%).
Hat tip to Frequentmiler
I bought 3 of the Delta airline cards; but haven’t received an email confirming it. It shows up in PayPal, but my credit card doesn’t show it pending. I clicked on “haven’t received” and got a message that I have to wait until May 25th before I do anything. Anyone else have this problem?
I got the dreaded paypal verification loop last night, and then saw no discount at checkout. WTF, paypal!!
I’m in that loop right now myself. I thought I got out of it since last night, but now I’m back in. You got out?
Wow, dead already? Didn’t get a chance to give it try.
The offer seems to have disappeared from checkout.
+100
“Paypal is the devil of online commerce. If their fraud is really this bad they might as well just shut down….I have several hundred thousand dollars of purchases and sales on Ebay over the least few years and have never had a security issue. There is nothing I am doing here that should even remotely flag as unusual.”
Had the items in my cart and was checking out when it died.
Well I finally was able to buy a whopping TWO AA GCs then paypal locked me out. They made me upload my f’ing DRIVERS LICENSE so now I’m completely locked out for several days until they “review” it.
Paypal is the devil of online commerce. If their fraud is really this bad they might as well just shut down….I have several hundred thousand dollars of purchases and sales on Ebay over the least few years and have never had a security issue. There is nothing I am doing here that should even remotely flag as unusual.
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I got 3 Delta $100 GC’s through, but for AA I only got the error message. Meh. Try tomorrow.
Just to give others some glimmer of hope when it comes to actually buying something from digital gifts via PayPal, I was FINALLY able to complete a purchase after months of useless PayPal help and basically giving up hope of ever being able to buy anything through them. Initially I was sent into the PP Hell we all know as the endless verification process loop and I really didn’t want to call and waste the hour it usually takes for a rep to finally tell me they don’t know why I can’t make a purchase, but the 10X bucks and this 15% travel discount was too good to not try and give a CR one more shot. I don’t know if I just lucked out and got a competent CR or what, but whatever she did, my purchase actually went through for the first time in at least 6 months. So don’t give up, miracles can still happen!
Keep getting this error “We’re not able to process your payment using your PayPal account at this time. Please try again later.” Went to my Paypal account and verified identity (full bank account number, multiple texts to phone, etc), and still getting same error. I give up!