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The Offer
- Enroll to spend $10 or more at Starbucks online via Paypal and get $5 (500 points).
The Fine Print
- Must save offer first
- Offer ends 12/31/22
- Max 42,000 offers available
Our Verdict
Sounds like the 500 in Paypal Rewards can be cashed out to your bank as $5 (?) so that makes this basically like $5 off $10. A lot of people will load up their Starbucks balance $10 to meet the spend requirement.
There’s a separate offer we’ve posted about to get $5 off directly on a $10 Starbucks purchase via Paypal (here’s the direct Paypal link). I’m not sure if a $10 purchase can meet both offers, but theoretically a $15 purchase should get $5 off leaving $10 payment and trigger the 500 ($5) reward. I’m not sure if it’ll work in practice. Regardless if you have both offers it should be possible to do two separate $10 Starbucks loads or purchases and get one offer on each purchase. Update: Reader Tom reports being able to stack both offers on a single $10 purchase.
Well this surprisingly worked smoothly.
First activated this offer (this thread).
Then activated this offer (https://www.doctorofcredit.com/save-5-off-10-starbucks-reload-or-purchase-with-paypal/).
Reloaded $10 into Starbucks via PayPal and they only charged me $5 and I got 500 points. Free $10 in Starbucks. Tried to replicate with a second account but the Starbucks deal doesn’t even appear so maybe they are tracking by device or something.
Gadget - Bank Bonus Geek
What day did you do the transaction? Some data points below the points aren’t paying out so that it might have exceeded the 42,000 available.
The same day as my post on the 29th.
Had both offers but did not double dip them.
No initial confirmation if it worked but points instantly posted.
The 500 points on 10$ spend offer did not trigger for me; however the 5$ off on $10 spend did work for a card reload, albeit in a second $10 transaction.
Unable to get Starbucks to let me buy a gift card. I keep getting an error message on the starbucks page when I check out with paypal “Something went wrong on our end. Try again later”. I have been trying daily for 3 days now. I tried using a prepaid card first on paypal and then tried a normal credit card and get the same error. I even tried setting up a brand new starbucks account.
Did it on 2 different paypal accounts 2 days ago and points didnt show up on either.
same. no points after reloading $10. annoying.
could it be because the $5off reduces the $10 reload transaction total to just $5 so it doesn’t trigger the 500pts offer?
I was able to stack both offers with one $10 reload and the 500 pts showed up right away.
Never got the points after being one of the early ones to load the account yesterday morning. Called Starbucks and asked for a refund with no problems.
The points offer doesn’t apply right away! Check your rewards points to redeem your 500 Points for 5$ towards your PayPal balance.
how long after the purchase did you receive the points ?
I had the $5 off $10 in one account and the 500 points in another, but not both at the same time. Used both anyway as it is a good deal.
Thank you! Was able to stack both offers in one $10 reload.