The Offer
Direct link to offer (press release here)
- PayPal via Perplexity is offering 50% off up to $50 when you use Perplexity to make your first purchase through PayPal
The Fine Print
- Beginning 9:00 am ET on November 25, 2025, through 11:59 pm ET on December 1, 2025, customers who complete their first purchase using PayPal within Perplexity will receive 50% back, up to $50
Our Verdict
It’s about time all this AI hype lead to consumers burning through some of this insane money they have been raising. I asked Perplexity to give me a list of participating merchants and it told me it couldn’t (Abercrombie & Fitch, Ashley Furniture, Fabletics, Adorama and NewEgg are the only ones participating I think). I then asked it if any merchants with gift cards were participating and again it wouldn’t provide a list.
I honestly find most AI underwhelming and that’s definitely the case here. It’s great for some things like annotations but I once asked for a list of girl names starting with the letter J and it suggested Thomas.
If you can’t get it to show, try clicking the shopping tab at the top and then you need to look for ‘instant buy’. You can try prompts such as ‘buy <item name” to get it to show. Seems generic terms work better than trying to search for a specific item or model number (although using the prompt “Find me a deal on [Copy and paste the exact listing title from newegg]” does work). You also need to use the web version rather than the app.
Share any good deals along with the term you used to get it in the comments below.
