No doubt, if you’re frugal like me, you do a quick search every time you buy something online. That likely goes for eBay purchases and purchases through Paypal. And if you’re like me, you’ve also likely noticed that ebay and paypal coupons are pretty scarce.
Finding an eBay coupon or Paypal coupon is a little like finding a needle in a haystack. But why is it so hard? Why aren’t there more ebay and paypal coupons available?
Well, the reason is pretty simple if we stop to think about it. There is hardly any benefit in it for eBay and Paypal. Paypal coupons are nearly non-existent for that reason. When a coupon is used on Paypal, the amount of the transaction goes down. Paypal charges on the amount of the transaction. They make less.
Like it or not, that is also one of the reasons that eBay doesn’t do coupons very often either. They own Paypal. So if PayPal makes less, so does eBay. The other reason is that they still have to pay that money to the seller. So if you find a $50 eBay coupon, and use it, eBay still pays the seller that money.
Normally, when a coupon is used, it is used at the market that it is issued from. So a Home Depot coupon is generally used at Home Depot. It directly benefits Home Depot. An eBay coupon only indirectly benefits eBay. Since it isn’t a direct benefit, eBay is somewhat hesitant to issue the coupons.
For the most part, the coupons that are issued are customer appreciation coupons. They are issued to buyers on eBay. What the requirements for getting said coupons is, is not known. But we’ll all continue using eBay anyways, so we can only cross our fingers and hope.
You can still do a search for eBay and PayPal coupons and every once in a while, you will find one. Often, they are tied to a user id though and will be unusable to anyone else.
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