topic Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store! in Announcements

Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

Alan_K — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:00:15 GMT

Update as of November 1, 2019: This offer is now expired.

Hey Community,

Effective October 25, 2019 until November 1, 2019 at 11:59PM ET, we are offering a SIM card for $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at participating retailers! This offer is available to new customers only.

How to Get this Offer:

$0 SIM Card: SIM cards will be $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at a participating retailer from October 25 to November 1, 2019, you will get a SIM for $0!

Participating retailers include:

Walmart
The Mobile Shop
WOW! mobile boutique
Public Mobile Kiosks

To learn more about Public Mobile, click here.

-Public Mobile Community Team

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

BEER — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:27:30 GMT

@Alan_K wrote:
Hey Community,

Effective October 25, 2019 until November 1, 2019 at 11:59PM ET, we are offering a SIM card for $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at participating retailers! This offer is available to new customers only.

How to Get this Offer:
$0 SIM Card: SIM cards will be $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at a participating retailer from October 25 to November 1, 2019, you will get a SIM for $0!
Participating retailers include:
Walmart
The Mobile Shop
WOW! mobile boutique

To learn more about Public Mobile, click here.

-Public Mobile Community Team

But I thought the SIM cards were always free if you activated at Walmart. But perhaps they just used to be free when we set up our accounts many months ago initially just to try out PM on the $10/month plans and later up them to the awesome $15 plan. Noticed that PM grandfathered the $10 limited plan that in my opinion will result in fewer persons just trying out PM before they cancel their plans with other providers. Under the present set up we would have never switched from Bell to PM.

PS. I will revise my comments above -Yes.. yes even under the present plans offered by PM we would still have switched from Bell to PM ----- just checked Bell's prepaid plans and none can hold a candle next to the great plans offered by PM.

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

kelvarnsen — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:12:15 GMT

So just to clarify, anyone activating between now and the 1st gets this, even without a referral code. Is that correct?

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

computergeek541 — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:40:39 GMT

@kelvarnsen wrote:
So just to clarify, anyone activating between now and the 1st gets this, even without a referral code. Is that correct?

Someone activating in-store on a $25+ plan until November 1st 11:59PM EDT would receive a free sim card AND a one-time $10 credit if a referral code is used during activation.

Using a referral code is optional (there just won't be a $10 account credit if you don't). The sim would still be free with this promotion.

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

Simoneabolarind — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:41:01 GMT

I was charge $10 in walmart store on Wednesday when u activated a line and i specifically told the guy at the store but he refused and told me i have to pay. Can someone get back to me asap. Thank .

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

stonechucker — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:07:00 GMT

@Simoneabolarind wrote:
I was charge $10 in walmart store on Wednesday when u activated a line and i specifically told the guy at the store but he refused and told me i have to pay. Can someone get back to me asap. Thank .

This promo was only offered earlier this morning. Your activation on Wednesday isn't within the dates specified. Sorry about your luck.

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

computergeek541 — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:43:32 GMT

@Simoneabolarind wrote:
I was charge $10 in walmart store on Wednesday when u activated a line and i specifically told the guy at the store but he refused and told me i have to pay. Can someone get back to me asap. Thank .

I know that many people have received free sim cards when activating at Walmart. However, since this is something they don't advertise, it's not something that you can hold them to. As always, consumers are always free to shop around and to look for the best price or services. If you do wish for someone to get back to you, it's really thw Walmart location that I would try speaking to, but they charged you the officially advertised price.

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

jstyles — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:55:41 GMT

Hello,

I wish I saw this earlier. I just bought a sim card and used a referral code to receive $10 credit for opening a new account and in my profile page or in my outstanding balance it doesn say that I received it?

Can you help me

thank you

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

computergeek541 — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 04:07:28 GMT

@jstyles wrote:
Hello,
I wish I saw this earlier. I just bought a sim card and used a referral code to receive $10 credit for opening a new account and in my profile page or in my outstanding balance it doesn say that I received it?
Can you help me
thank you

The official Public Mobile information about that offer says to give it up to 72 hours for that $10 credit to appear in your Public Mobile account balance.

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

lukevader — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:12:44 GMT

Meh, I just activated a new line last night and I just couldnt bring myself to go into a store and activate to save the $10.

Even when I WAS in a walmart trying to get a sim card back in early Sept the guy was just on the PM website trying to activate it. I refused to give him any of my info. I just wanted to buy the sim card... nope.... he wouldnt do it so I left without it. I went right across the street and bought 2 sims from london drugs and just used the 2nd one last night.

Time to order another one from Amazon as a backup now. :thumbsup:

EDIT: OH WOW, they are only 7.69 each right now with free prime shipping.

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

CJ_in_Chilli — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 19:27:33 GMT

@Alan_K wrote:
Hey Community,

Effective October 25, 2019 until November 1, 2019 at 11:59PM ET, we are offering a SIM card for $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at participating retailers! This offer is available to new customers only.

How to Get this Offer:
$0 SIM Card: SIM cards will be $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at a participating retailer from October 25 to November 1, 2019, you will get a SIM for $0!
Participating retailers include:
Walmart
The Mobile Shop
WOW! mobile boutique

To learn more about Public Mobile, click here.

-Public Mobile Community Team

As it turns out @Alan_K needs to be a tad more precise with the flash promo announcements wording... An account credit isn't quite the same as 0$ (implying free) unless the tax is also credited... Hehe!

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

CJ_in_Chilli — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 19:35:11 GMT

@lukevader wrote:

Time to order another one from Amazon as a backup now. :thumbsup:

Mind explaining why you buy several Sim cards as "backup", is it that you lose your phone often?

Curious...

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

computergeek541 — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:14:31 GMT

@CJ_in_Chilli wrote:
@Alan_K wrote:
Hey Community,

Effective October 25, 2019 until November 1, 2019 at 11:59PM ET, we are offering a SIM card for $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at participating retailers! This offer is available to new customers only.

How to Get this Offer:
$0 SIM Card: SIM cards will be $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at a participating retailer from October 25 to November 1, 2019, you will get a SIM for $0!
Participating retailers include:
Walmart
The Mobile Shop
WOW! mobile boutique

To learn more about Public Mobile, click here.

-Public Mobile Community Team
As it turns out @Alan_K needs to be a tad more precise with the flash promo announcements wording... An account credit isn't quite the same as 0$ (implying free) unless the tax is also credited... Hehe!

The free sim promotion is not via an account credit. There is no up front cost for the sim card, not even tax.

As for the Flash Sale, no tax needs to be paid for the free 30 days either.

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

lukevader — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:19:42 GMT

@CJ_in_Chilli wrote Mind explaining why you buy several Sim cards as "backup", is it that you lose your phone often? Curious...

Several?? Just one as a backup is several? Okayyyy

Anyway, I always have one on hand cause if a friend wants to sign up I have one I can sell him so he doesn't have to wait to get one.

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

Mercman — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:24:22 GMT

Hi,

I was at the Wow Mobile Boutique and signed up for Public Mobile as a new member at 11:44am this morning and they made me pay for a SIM card. Should I not have gotten it for free?

Also, can someone tell me how to change my 4 digit PIN # ?

Thanks!

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

GinYVR — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:28:07 GMT

@MercmanYou would have to go back and talk to Wow mobile with the print out of the annoucement.

You would need to contact the moderators by clicking on the ? in the lower right hand corner in order to change your PIN#

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

hairbag1 — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:28:13 GMT

@Mercman wrote:
Hi,

I was at the Wow Mobile Boutique and signed up for Public Mobile as a new member at 11:44am this morning and they made me pay for a SIM card. Should I not have gotten it for free?

Also, can someone tell me how to change my 4 digit PIN # ?

Thanks!

How to Get this Offer:

$0 SIM Card: SIM cards will be $0 when you activate on a $25/mo plan or higher in-store at a participating retailer from October 25 to November 1, 2019, you will get a SIM for $0!

Participating retailers include:

Walmart
The Mobile Shop
WOW! mobile boutique

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

GR — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:28:14 GMT

@Mercman did you activate on a 25$ plan or more? If so it should have been free. The pin number you have to send a message to the Moderator_Team and and they can change it. Click here to start a conversation with Simon the chat bot and get a ticket for the pin change

https://publicmobile.ca.ada.support/chat/

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

Mercman — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:33:51 GMT

Yes, I signed up for the $25 plan. It is difficult for me to go back to WoW as I live 1.5 hours away where my brother lives. I had to have him accompany me so that I could keep my cell number. I was on a family plan in his name and he had to be there to authorize the unlocking of the phone and the service termination with Rogers. Do I have to go back to WoW (1.5 hours away)?

Re: Get a SIM for $0 when you activate in-store!

GR — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:35:31 GMT

@Mercman message the moderators to see if they can just apply a 10$ credit on your account or something!