New SIM card delivery options

[pckku]

There are many articles for sale in amazon.ca site. Why can't PM advertise for sale their services and SIM card through amazon.ca. This will reach out to a much wider customer base and they can also manage the delivery of SIM cards on PM's behalf. However, I am not sure if CRTC would allow that. 

Also, to save shipping costs, PM may also consider to have their customers to pick up the SIM cards from any Telus outlets. To avoid any impact on Telus customers, the stores will only be used for pickup for PM customers and will not sell any PM products. 

[Kayfun101]

ok here is the issue if pm mobile did this it would be competing with telus and telus would probably be vary mad at this because its taking business away from them and legalitse and big suits you now the best option i can come up with is people that are here should be able to get sim cards and premote the service locally in the city town were ever they are located and use social media as a way to promote the service so if pm is reading this please help us help you with spreading the word and canada post is not on strike now hope this helps you as a salution to your question

[imm1304]

Telus would not want to answer questions about PM and give PM a free ride like that.  

However, I did propose a similar idea very long time ago.. where sim card dispensers would be set up like vending machines.  To prevent abuse, one would need to pay deposit to get sim card and then the deposit could be refunded as credit to the account.  

[Luddite]

Not sure how PM could get its shipping charges less than regular mail. Remember shipping is only being charged for SIMs during the potential postal service interruption. When that ends, it's back to normal; no charge delivery anywhere in Canada.

[pckku]

PM can decide on their own if utilising amazon.ca is viable or make any business sense.  However, PM can save their (and Telus too eventually down the line) shipping costs by utilizing Telus retail stores just for PM customers pickup. No support will be provided by Telus staff. SIM card dispensers are also a good idea, proposed by @imm1304

[imm1304]

Agree with @Luddite, the Canadapost option is free for us and the cheapest for PM and already worked fine for non-urgent scenarios.   With the 2-year agreement announced earlier today, Canadapost option will be back on the sim order page very soon.  

[imm1304]

@pckku if PM decides that they can reach out to a larger segment by setting up a shop on Amazon, that would be cool option too.  

[Kayfun101]

There is someone there how sells them already at 6.50 a sim witch I think is highway robbery lol

[ute1978]

I am still wondering why this guy on Amazon hasn't been banned yet 😞

[pckku]

@ute1978 pointed out a very important issue. Since the sim cards are free - assuming PM reverts back to using Canada Post's regular mail deliver, people gets the sim cards free of charge and then they try to sell on amazon or ebays to get extra cash. Hopefully PM would monitor this closely as unsuspecting customers, likely from outside of Canada, may fall vitim to thses unofficial sales of sim cards.

[ute1978]

@dboxtvinfo you can order as many sim cards as you want. But if you activate them you have to create a new account for each of them. It also has to be a different e-mail address for each sim card.