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FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

Alan_K — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:59:28 GMT

Hey Community,

Effective November 23, 2018 until November 25, 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 in-store at participating retailers! 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 in-store at a participating retailer on a 30-day plan from November 23 to November 25, 2018, you will get your next 30 days of service for $0!

Participating retailers include:

Walmart
London Drugs
The Mobile Shop
WOW! mobile boutique
K-Mobile
Select Koodo Authorized Dealers

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 5 days. These credits will count towards your next plan renewal.
For example, if you sign up on our current $35 for 1 GB at 3G speed, Unlimited Canada-wide Talk and Unlimited International Text 30-day plan, your account will be credited $35 within 5 days 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, which can be found at publicmobile.ca/rewardrules, apply.

$0 SIM Card: SIM cards will be $0 when you activate in-store only at participating retailers.

To learn more about Public Mobile, click here.

-Public Mobile Community Team

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

NDesai — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:15:36 GMT

Right timing! Some good deals on 3G plans but unfortunately no LTE deals 😞

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

stonechucker — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:29:57 GMT

Once again, an in-store activation deal that screws over the awesome friend referral deal.

To all current subscribers, make sure you go with your friend when they go to "buy" their sim. Make sure they buy it, and activate at home.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:37:58 GMT

@stonechucker wrote:
Once again, an in-store activation deal that screws over the awesome friend referral deal.

To all current subscribers, make sure you go with your friend when they go to "buy" their sim. Make sure they buy it, and activate at home.

But if you activate in store and get the most expensive plan then when you see the credit in your account you just future downgrade to a more modest plan and enjoy the credit. Sure the referrer doesn't get the $25 but if you don't have a referrer then this way would be more profitable to you.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

Haiggy — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:51:48 GMT

I'm really not sure why people are upset - you can STILL get the referral credit in-store, and you can still get a deal on LTE... For the referral, you just need your friend's number.. plug it in at time of activation, it's all on the same form, so it's not even hidden. Get $112 total credit if you sign up for an $87 plan - switch it after you get your credit in 5 days. Done. Almost 4 months of service with 4.5GB of data / mo - the first month will even be full LTE with the custom plan.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

smp99 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:53:50 GMT

@stonechucker wrote:
Once again, an in-store activation deal that screws over the awesome friend referral deal.

To all current subscribers, make sure you go with your friend when they go to "buy" their sim. Make sure they buy it, and activate at home.

This only goes until Sunday. Lots of time to bring in referrals afterwards

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

stonechucker — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:53:28 GMT

@Anonymous, yes, if someone doesn't have a friend referral, this is great. But those who are trying to get friends referred, are getting screwed.

Walmart is the worst of these retailers by far, demanding that activations occur in-store.

Why do you continue to argue with me?

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:57:41 GMT

@stonechucker wrote:
@Anonymous, yes, if someone doesn't have a friend referral, this is great. But those who are trying to get friends referred, are getting screwed.

Walmart is the worst of these retailers by far, demanding that activations occur in-store.

Why do you continue to argue with me?

It's all on me. Something about some of your phrasing seems to trigger an argumentative response.

I agree with you for the most part most of the time 🙂

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

ShawnC13 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:00:36 GMT

@stonechucker wrote:
@Anonymous, yes, if someone doesn't have a friend referral, this is great. But those who are trying to get friends referred, are getting screwed.

Walmart is the worst of these retailers by far, demanding that activations occur in-store.

Why do you continue to argue with me?

Really if you are feeling screwed then you aren't looking out for the best options to bring people over. You will still get the $1 a month and this Flash sale is the best deal for your friends.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

dna2016 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:15:22 GMT

Nice, let the Black Friday promos begin

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

Haiggy — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:38:49 GMT

@stonechucker wrote:
@Anonymous, yes, if someone doesn't have a friend referral, this is great. But those who are trying to get friends referred, are getting screwed.

How so? You still have the opportunity to put in your friend's phone number upon activation in-store. It's literally the same form.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:05:30 GMT

@Haiggy wrote:
@stonechucker wrote:
@Anonymous, yes, if someone doesn't have a friend referral, this is great. But those who are trying to get friends referred, are getting screwed.
How so? You still have the opportunity to put in your friend's phone number upon activation in-store. It's literally the same form.

Yes but I think his point is that that's only worth $10 to the new customer and just the repeating $1 reward to the referer as opposed to $25 for both.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

stonechucker — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:11:05 GMT

@Haiggy, yes, @Anonymous is right.

The $25/$25 offer requires online activation, rather than in-store activation. To be honest, I don't know how Public Mobile knows the difference if it's the same form.

There has to be something from these stores that identify an in-store activation. It's completely possible to track it via IP Address submitting the transaction if someone has set this up for the retail locations.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

stonechucker — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:19:10 GMT

@ShawnC13, I firmly believe in handshake deals as being binding. When a friend agrees to activate so we can both receive the $25 bonus, I have every right to expect the bonus. If someone had offered this suggestion to me when I was signing up, I absolutely would have done the online activation.

Yes, I know, it was only online activations when I signed up. I'm just old-fashioned.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

ShawnC13 — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:23:14 GMT

@stonechucker wrote:
@ShawnC13, I firmly believe in handshake deals as being binding. When a friend agrees to activate so we can both receive the $25 bonus, I have every right to expect the bonus. If someone had offered this suggestion to me when I was signing up, I absolutely would have done the online activation.

Yes, I know, it was only online activations when I signed up. I'm just old-fashioned.

@stonechucker, totally agree with you if your referral has agreed to the $25 for both parties. I see the Retail promo as a way to offer a sweeter deal to those who maybe on fence.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

tomessafi — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 19:39:53 GMT

I've got a sim card today from a walmart and I activated a 30 days plan online because the Walmart salesperson didn't give me this information even though I asked if I could activate it in-store. He repllied that I had to go online because he couldn't do it.

How come he didn't activated my plan and I had to pay $10+tx while I should have had the Sim card for free?

Thank you for your help.

Tom

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

stonechucker — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 19:51:17 GMT

@tomessafi on an online activation, there normally is not a free SIM card. The Walmart employee did the best they could do for you, as you say they 'couldn't activate' in store for you.

Hopefully you have/had a friend who referred you for the $25/$25 deal.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

tomessafi — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 19:56:50 GMT

Thanks @stonechucker I have had a referral but still that doesn't make it right. The walmart salesperson didn't want to other not couldn't. He barely answered to my question and just wnated to get rid of the customers in line. In any case I don't see why I shouldn't have the promo applied to me because that man didn't want to do his job...

I guess in this situation, It's up to publi Mobile to right the wrong.

Cheers

Tom

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

srlawren — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 20:15:01 GMT

@tomessafi not to make light of your situation, but your story is actually kind of ironic. I say this because there have been plenty of people that went into a Walmart locatiion to only purchase a SIM card, which they would activate online later themselves, only to have the Walmart employee refuse to sell them the card without activation and said they were not allowed. So ironically you were only able to do what many others wanted to do. Ideally, every Walmart location that carries the SIM cards would do either, depending on customer's wishes--I believe this is what PM intended for the partnership, but some locations/employees seem to think otherwise.

Re: FLASH SALE! From November 23 to 25 - Get a SIM + your next 30 days of service for $0 in-store!

tomessafi — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 20:19:05 GMT

yep @srlawren it's ironic

I have sent a private message to the moderators with my purchasing ticket... we'll see what happens