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Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan!

Alan_K — Fri, 25 May 2018 20:38:42 GMT

Hey Community,

Effective May 26, 2018 until May 27, 2018 at 11:59PM ET, we are offering a SIM card and your next 30 days for $0 when you activate a 30-day plan! This will be applied as an account credit and the offer is available to new customers only.

How to Get this Offer:

30 Days for $0: When you activate a Public Mobile SIM card on a 30-day plan from now until May 27, 2018, you will get your next 30 days of service for $0!

The credit value that you will receive will be equal to the price of the rate plan on which you activated your SIM card. This credit will cover the rate plan cost only. It will not cover additional costs such as Add-Ons.
Eligible customers will be credited the 30-day rate plan amount within 72 hours. These credits will count towards your next plan renewal.
For example, if you sign up on our current $35 for 1GB at 3G speed, Unlimited Canada-wide Talk and Unlimited International Text 30-day plan, your account will be credited $35 within 72 hours of activating.
Eligible customers will receive a confirmation text message shortly after the credit has been applied to your account. These details can also be found by signing in to your Self-Serve account.
You will not need to top-up your account at your first renewal date, unless you purchase Add-Ons, change or future-date your plan to a more expensive plan during the first 30 days. Note that, if you have registered for AutoPay, you will continue to receive your $2 AutoPay reward every 30 days. All Reward rules, found at publicmobile.ca/rewardrules, apply.
This offer is not stackable with the offer to get a SIM + $20 account credit when you activate a Talk + Text plan at Walmart. If you are activating at Walmart on a Public Mobile Talk + Text plan, you will be eligible for the $0 SIM and $20 account credit. All other Public Mobile 30-day plans that include data, purchased from Walmart, will be eligible for the 30 days + SIM for $0.

$0 SIM Card: SIM cards will be $0 when you activate in-store.

If you wish to pick up a SIM card in-store and activate at home, you will be asked to pay the regular retail price by the retailer.
Due to the short promotional timeframe, SIM cards purchased online will be regular price ($10 each), as we cannot guarantee that they will arrive before the promotion ends.

To learn more about Public Mobile, click here.

-Public Mobile Community Team

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

mimmo — Fri, 25 May 2018 20:43:34 GMT

A one day sale, May 26-27? I guess in store only as ordering will take too long to arrive.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Luddite — Fri, 25 May 2018 21:12:16 GMT

@Alan_K Are WOW & K Mobile offering store activations too; or just Walmart?

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

daredogg — Fri, 25 May 2018 23:14:27 GMT

I'm guessing new customers will already need their SIM card in-hand to take advantage of this offer online, if they don't visit a store?

I've been out of the loop... you can now buy a SIM and activate your phone at Walmart?!

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

NDesai — Sat, 26 May 2018 00:51:24 GMT

@mimmo wrote:
A one day sale, May 26-27? I guess in store only as ordering will take too long to arrive.

They call it a "Flash Sale"

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

will13am — Sat, 26 May 2018 01:07:19 GMT

This reminds me of Bay Day. But then again, the Bay replaces one sale with another every day. Keep the sales coming!

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

canucks4life — Sat, 26 May 2018 03:16:36 GMT

So let me get this straight if I was a drug dealer could walk into a Walmart pick the best 30-day plan eg talk/text/data 5GB LTE pay cash up front then my account will be credited within 72hrs?

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

matbasm — Sat, 26 May 2018 03:19:19 GMT

@canucks4life, Sounds about right. Keep in mind that if you cancel after getting the credit, you can't ask to get your credit balance refunded to you.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

DethiosLady — Sat, 26 May 2018 04:25:47 GMT

I’m pretty sure just Walmart for that promotion of the activation and $20 credit.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Jorno — Sat, 26 May 2018 07:58:06 GMT

@canucks4life wrote:
So let me get this straight if I was a drug dealer could walk into a Walmart pick the best 30-day plan eg talk/text/data 5GB LTE pay cash up front then my account will be credited within 72hrs?

Dawg, this flash deal is dope!

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

danlee — Sat, 26 May 2018 23:32:53 GMT

Do you have to select a plan right away at Walmart pay the initial plan fees in order to get the credits?

Also, PM should extend the promotion for say 1 week instead of 1 day imo.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Luddite — Sat, 26 May 2018 23:47:24 GMT

@danlee wrote:
Do you have to select a plan right away at Walmart pay the initial plan fees in order to get the credits?

Also, PM should extend the promotion for say 1 week instead of 1 day imo.

Yes, to both comments.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Korth — Sun, 27 May 2018 06:18:30 GMT

A friend tells me that the local Walmart (in Chilliwack, BC) wasn't aware of this promo and didn't think it was legit or "applicable for this region" when she showed them this PM announcement thread.

Is PM advertising these things anywhere off their own forums? I suspect that few "new customers" ever visit the site (especially within such a narrow time window) - indeed, I suspect few existing PM customers visit the site until/unless they need questions answered and problems fixed.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

NDesai — Sun, 27 May 2018 07:33:43 GMT

@Korth wrote:
Is PM advertising these things anywhere off their own forums? I suspect that few "new customers" ever visit the site (especially within such a narrow time window) - indeed, I suspect few existing PM customers visit the site until/unless they need questions answered and problems fixed.

They advertise on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Daveashore — Sun, 27 May 2018 10:46:08 GMT

I had ordered a SIM card, planning to activate in a week or so. Then I saw this offer of 30 days free. Wal-Mart staff helped me activate on Saturday May 26.

Although I did not receive the free SIM card, am I still eligible for the free 30 days?

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Anonymous — Sun, 27 May 2018 13:21:51 GMT

@Daveashore, Yes. Absolutely.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

smp99 — Sun, 27 May 2018 13:42:33 GMT

Walmart is only involved so far as the free sim is concerned. They have nothing to to with the account credit so don’t bother asking. That will happen post activation. Just get your new account up and running and PM will take care of the credit.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Jmckimmie007 — Sun, 27 May 2018 18:02:10 GMT

Public mobile, why is it that the free month of service is only for new customers?
I have been rallying customers for public mobile since I discovered them. Forum after forum, mobile pages.. everywhere! But we don’t qualify? That’s insane! Don’t think I will be recommending you guys anymore.

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Korth — Sun, 27 May 2018 18:30:29 GMT

@Jmckimmie007

PM has already rolled out several promos which exclusively target new customers.

Existing PM customers can always choose to close their accounts and register again with new accounts (and new emails) ... but would lose any account balance, all Loyalty and Referral Rewards, SIM card, phone number, discontinued/grandfathered plan (if they have one), etc. For some (like myself) who've been here a while it's a lot to trade away to "save" twenty bucks or to get a "free" month of service. For others (like yourself) who've recently joined PM it might be worth scoring one of these "new customer" promos by starting from scratch again.

Hopefully some of those folks you've been rallying have joined PM - each one could be a Referral Reward for you, $1 every 30 days for as long as they stay, and enough Rewards can "get your plan down to $0".

Re: Until May 27- Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 when you sign up for a 30-day plan

Jmckimmie007 — Sun, 27 May 2018 18:49:27 GMT

Aside from the fact, that in order to get referral rewards you need to give people your phone number! Who wants to do that?