BWI: Join in the Festive Fun with PayPal’s Holiday Promotions

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: PayPal
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 02:17 PM IST (08:47 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Banking & financial services, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Join in the Festive Fun with PayPal's Holiday Promotions
Shop, Save and Win With PayPal

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, December 02, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- PayPal today unwrapped its holiday promotions for 2009 with the start of two festive promotions; the PayPal Crazy Hour and the PayPal WishList.

PayPal CrazyHour - countdown to crazy prizes!

Buyers who make a purchase and pay using PayPal during one of PayPal's CrazyHours may win one of the many prizes up for grabs, including Agoda travel vouchers, a Macbook Air, a personal party for five in Phuket and a top prize of US $25,000 in cash. The PayPal CrazyHour comprises of random one hour slots from now until 31 December 2009, which PayPal is counting down at www.paypal-apac.com/crazyhour. There are a total of 13 PayPal CrazyHours from now until 31 December 2009, so keep watching the countdown timer to find out when the next CrazyHour is and the prize to be won!

PayPal users eager to take part in this promotion can shop at any site that accepts PayPal during the CrazyHour to win a prize. If they're looking for a one stop shop for their online purchases, they can check out PayPal's Asia Mall at www.paypal-apac.com/apac-mall. Major Asian online retailers, such as Sasa.com, Razer and DigitalRev, are offering a range of promotional offers to PayPal customers who use this online mall, from 20 percent discounts to free warranties, free shipping and more. With new promotions every month, shoppers can always look forward to exciting deals at PayPal's Asia Mall.

PayPal WishList - tell your friends what you want this Christmas!

Ever received five snow globes, ten pairs of socks and a festive jumper that doesn't fit? Now everyone can get the gifts they want this holiday season with PayPal's new WishList.

The PayPal WishList is a new Facebook application where users can post the five top gifts they want to receive for the holidays this year on their Facebook pages. All they need to do is simply download the application, select their items, and share it with their friends. Shopping for great deals to fulfil the WishList will be easy in PayPal's Asia Mall and with other merchants who accept PayPal.

"At PayPal, we create win-win relationships between our buyers and sellers," said Mario Shiliashki, General Manager of PayPal Southeast Asia and India. "Joint promotions like the PayPal CrazyHour and the PayPal WishList help to drive traffic to our merchants' websites and in turn increase cross border trade for them. Buyers also get to enjoy incentives like earning cash rebates from PayPal and benefiting from discounts offered by PayPal's merchants, making online shopping for them an even more attractive proposition this festive season!"

About PayPal

PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 78 million active accounts in 190 markets and 24 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce.
In the U.S., PayPal is the most preferred payment service on the Web after Visa. In the UK and Australia, PayPal is the most preferred payment service on the Web .

PayPal's Total Payment Volume, the total value of transactions in 2008 represented nearly 9 percent of global e-commerce .

PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, California. Its international headquarters (PayPal Pte. Ltd.) is located in Singapore.

PayPal is an eBay company. More information about the company can be found at www.paypal.com

Consumer advisory - PayPal Pte. Ltd., the holder of PayPal's stored value facility, does not require the approval of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Users are advised to read the terms and conditions available at www.paypal.com carefully before use.


CONTACT DETAILS
Nandita Kanwar, Vox Public Relations, nanditak@voxpr.co.in
Poonam Thakur, Vox Public Relations, +91 9818130538, poonamt@voxpr.co.in

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