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Old Oct 10, 2025 | 7:54 am
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Originally Posted by Mr. BoH

I would be shocked if the Citi offers stacked with Paypal. The transactions post with a “PP*” at the front, which I interpret as the vendor being paypal
Isn’t the PP* essentially the same as the TST* or SQ* “prefixes” for merchants that use Toast or Square payment terminals? I see those all the time for smaller businesses (coffee shops etc.). They don’t mean that Toast or Square are the merchant, just that they were some sort of middleman in the payment processing chain.

In other confusing news, the 75 day merchant offer I saw a few days ago now shows three days left. I think Citi made the same switcheroo in September (see this post).

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