It may not have been run very effectively but I’d stop short of calling it an outright scam. I knew going in about the first 130k people, which is actually a small number. Based on that, I never had an expectation that I’d automatically qualify. Furthermore, I had to make these purchases anyway as they were holiday gifts, so using PayPal was simply an easy-to-use payment option. TBH I’d rather have my credit card listed on PayPal and accessible to multiple online retailers than have it listed individually on a larger number of websites that I rarely use, which I consider a security risk. There was another PayPal promotion, with CVS, that worked out great for me, so I’m hesitant to call them out on this for anything other than a lack of transparency, which in this case would have been the right thing for them to do. Perhaps I too will provide them with that feedback, and thanks for yours.
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