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The Offer
Check your Paypal account or debit card for the following offer:
- Get $50 when you link 3 subscriptions with Paypal.
Look for email subject: Link subscriptions. Get $50 cash back.
Our Verdict
This seems like an easy-ish $50 win. Thanks to reader PB and reader TDD for sending this in.
One appears to be a cashback deal linked to a regular Paypal account. The other needs Paypal debit card payment. I’m not sure which subscriptions allow paying with Paypal, but probably some streaming services do and possibly some cell phone or internet plans. Let us know if you find this offer and how you’re using it.
Readers mention a few cheap subscriptions, if you don’t have organic:
- MailChimp $1
- Paramount $1 or $.99 or whatever
- Washington Post $2
- any Patreon subscription for $1
- NYT $4
- LA Times $1
- Netflix
I did not receive this offer, but an offer for “earn 1000 pt on your 1st google purchase of $3+”. I made a credit purchase for google voice but it did not trigger the bonus. Any ideas on what counts towards “google purchase”?
Did you mean “1st google PLAY purchase of $3+”?
Did you buy something on Google PLAY? (I’m not familiar where/how Google Voice payments are made.)
Did you make your payment via PayPal? (Or directly to a credit card stored on Google?)
This offer is discussed here: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/paypal-spend-5-on-google-play-get-5-reward/
Thanks for the tips! It only said “google purchase” in the offer I received, but you were right google play purchase worked. I purchased an ebook from google and received the email confirmation of 1000 points on the way.
Did this with Patreon ($1), Washington Post (Student Discount – $1 [I used a regular gmail]), and MailChimp ($1). For those wondering, I canceled all of them IMMEDIATELY after paying. Meaning, I paid Patreon first, cancelled, then bought MailChimp, then cancelled and repeated. This afternoon (two days after doing the offer), I received emails counting down how many more subscriptions I needed to buy to unlock the offer. It stopped at “2 subscriptions down, one more to go.” And when I went to PayPal, 5000 points were in my pending. If you’re doubting whether it’ll work or not, if the subscription you paid for disappears from the list to choose from, you’re good to go. Good luck.
I see a few people mention a list that Paypal has of subscriptions. I can’t find the list. Any pointers?
Home page of paypal app. https://imgur.com/a/xBeWHJb
Thanks. I have the offer too as a popup on app login, but I don’t have that screen. https://imgur.com/1AEuK9c
I guess I’ll just do a few subs and hope for the best.
7/18: Activated offer and Did 1$ on Patreon, 1$ on Deviant Art, 1$ on MailChimp. No Update from paypal yet. Will post the updates here
Got a mail from PayPal informing 1 down, 2 to go. Opened the app and clicked on the offer banner – it disappeared immediately from the app. Went to the rewards section to check – 5000 points pending.
Does it show pending write away after you link the 3 subscriptions ? Or does it take 1 or 2 days to reflect it ? I did all 3 about 30 mins ago but I haven’t seen anything show up in the Paypal app.
See below. Mentioned several times. It takes a couple days.
7/15/25: Targeted; purchased $1 subscriptions to individual creators at DeviantArt & Patreon (just searched until I found someone with $1 options), and also MailChimp. These 3 options immediately disappeared from Paypal’s list of subscriptions once I’d paid.
7/17/25: Received emails from Paypal “1 payment down, 2 to go.” and “1 payment left. It’s go time.” within minutes of each other.
7/18/25: Received email from Paypal “You earned $50 cash back!” and redeemed to my account.
Very easy, nice little support to individuals. Canceled all subscriptions already.
Can’t believe how fast this paid out. Set up the 3 subscriptions on Tuesday. Points went pending on Thursday. Points were available to convert to cash today (Friday).
Another DP:
1) mailchimp 1$ (and downgraded immediately)
2) TWP – 2$ – will cancel on 3rd week
3) organic visible customer – linked – paypal emailed about 2 subscription active and 1 to go – as visible payment is not yet due
4) But seeing the promotion limit warnings here, tried Intelius 0.95c 1 week trial (beware, spam company), paypal notified via the app that met the 3 subscriptions and 5000 points are pending in my rewards.
when did you link them? got mine linked yesterday and nothing is showing still
about 48 hours
FYI, GoPuff has a $1 subscription and it worked for me. It was different than MailChimp and Patreon, both of which showed up under the subscriptions section in the paypal app, but GoPuff didn’t. But I just had the points go pending in paypal.
how long did it take for your points to pend? It’s been more than 24 hours for me and nothing yet.
Just about 2 days.
Gopuff didn’t work for me. Kept giving error message when I tried to pay.
Same
Have my points pending. Thanks to the earlier comments which listed some of the cheaper options.
Linked Mailchimp for $1, Washington post for $2, and the athletic for $2. Clicking thru PayPal to the athletic gives a 1 week trial so I searched on google “the athletic subscription” to subscribe without the trial- I was scared the PayPal offer would reach the 12k limit while waiting a week to be charged. And it worked, even tho didn’t click thru PayPal to link the sub.
Easy $45 money maker. Thanks doc!