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The Offer
Check your email for the following offer: (Subject: <your name>, here’s how to earn $20 back on your Citi® Card with PayPal)
- Earn a $20 statement credit on your Citi Double Cash card by activating this offer now and spending $200 or more on eligible PayPal purchases with your linked Citi Card through 6/30/2022.
This offer starts 3/31/2022, or the date you enroll, whichever is later, and will end on 6/30/2022. Purchases must post to your account during the promotional period to qualify.
Our Verdict
Easy $20 here for those who got targeted; I’ve only seen this offer for the Double Cash card from Citi. You can even split a larger purchase on Paypal to put $200 on the Citi card and the rest on another card.
Hat tip to Grant and Ryan Goldstein
I saw the offer in the “Offers For You” when I login to the account management website. I also get the “Sorry, we are unable to process your enrollment online” error. I spoke to customer service today 5/16/2022 and they say the offer has expired but has not yet been removed from the offers page on their website.
Oh well..
When I login I see this on my Rewards+ card but when I try to add it I get a “Sorry, we were unable to process your enrollment online.” message. I got an email about the $20 back after spending $120 on Amazon awhile back so I’m wondering if you can only get one.
I NEVER get any targeted credit card spend offers from Citi. Yet they send me emails/mail relentlessly every week for crappy personal loan rates and crappy checking account offers with ridiculous deposit lock-up requirements. Pisses me off!! I’ve had the Double Cash card for 5 years, and the Custom Cash for 6 months. I have marketing turned on in the settings, and I use both cards frequently… Does anyone have any tips for getting targeted?
Sounds like I’m exactly in the same boat as you, Cameron. I’ve had both cards for nearly the exact amount of time you have, and the same – never any decent targeted offers. I never carry a balance (and I push thousands through the DC card), and if I had to guess, I suspect they don’t send good offers to those that don’t earn them interest fees.
Guess I’ll pay $200 of my June estimated taxes with Citi DC through PayPal. Hopefully they don’t decide that doesn’t qualify, as they “reserve the right” to do.
I’ve never had a problem with a credit card issuer disallowing a bonus/special offer for Taxes. It’s a real spend not a cash equivalent or person-to-person transfer that are typically excluded .
Awesome, thanks for the DP!
How long did you wait to receive this credit? I finished at June but still see nothing…
Like I said, my $20 credit posted along with the statement that included my $200 PayPal charge. So if you haven’t gotten it yet you probably need to talk to them. At most the terms would have said 2-3 months.
What exactly is an “eligible purchase”? I looked through the offer and nowhere do they say which purchase are eligible or not eligible.
It’s in the terms at the bottom of the email.
An eligible purchase is a purchase made when PayPal is the payment method, except for peer-to-peer transactions (such as PayPal Send Money Transactions), Citi credit card purchases made with convenience checks, cash advances, and items refunded for credit. We reserve the right to determine which purchases qualify for the offer.
I got $10 back on a Zenni purchase 😎.
So basically just load $200 to Amazon with PayPal Key?
For the next 5 days only. RIP PPK
Remember, this will take 3 statement cycles to credit.
Citi isn’t Chase or Amex or BofA.
“Remember, this will take *monkey throws a dart on a board* statement cycles to credit.”
ftfy.
I wonder if this is the alternative to $20/$120 Amazon offer.
I received the amazon offer but not this one.
1 transaction $200 more? or can be several transactions? TIA