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Normally, the back-to-school season is the second largest retail season of the year. Microsoft launched the “Back to School Deal Days” promotion and doubled the cash back rate for most of its merchants. If you want to find something for this fall semester, it’s time to do a little research at www.live.com/cashback to save money for the coming school year. However, Microsoft is not the only one to promote back-to-school deals. PayPal just launched the back-to-school promotion from which you can save up to 50% when you shop and pay via PayPal.

Although PayPal is an eBay company, there are many “off-eBay” merchants participating in the back-to-school promotion. You can find whatever you need in the school: electronics, clothing, supplies, textbooks and other general needs. For example, FootLocker offers 15% off $75 with coupon code AF218G2H, 20% cash back at OfficeMax, and $100 off Lifebook notebook at Fujitsu.

A complete list of deals are listed below (you can find out the deals at www.paypal-promo.com/backtoschool):

• AllPosters.com: up to 50% cash back (BTSPAL)
• American Eagle: 20% cash back
• eBags.com: 20% off
• eCOST.com: save over $100 on 1TB WesternDigital Hard Drive
• FootLocker.com: 15% off $75 or more (go to Microsoft live cash back)
• Fujitsu: $100 off Lifebook notebook (BTS100OFF)
• GUESS.com: 10% off entire order (PPBTS10)
• Proactive.com: 15% cash back
• HotTopic.com: $25 off $100 or more (PPBTS25)
• NewEgg.com $10 HP webcam with coupon code PYPLBTS20 and many other great electronic deals
• OfficeMax: 20% cash back
• OverStock.com: 10% off entire order
• ShoeBuy.com: $10 off $40
• TigerDirect.com: free 512MB USB flash drive with your order

This is an annually promotion from PayPal with many merchants as a  result of a survey conducted by ACNielsen Customized Research last year. According to the survey, most parents and students continue to disagree over what constitutes a “must-buy” purchase for the school. The back-to-school survey as revealed by PayPal also includes:

• More than two-thirds of high school teens get their parents to buy items that their parents don’t approve.
• High school students expect that their parents will spend $350 on average for their back-to-school shopping.
• Parents with kids ages 5-17 estimate spending $252 dollars per child on back-to-school shopping.
• More than four in ten high school students will contribute at least a small portion of their own money for back-to-school purchases.
• 43 percent of high school students will buy some of their back-to-school items online and they will mostly shop for clothes, electronics and shoes.

Start save money for the coming school year and enjoy the promotion offered by PayPal and Microsoft live cash back.