topic Re: Lunar New Year Offer in Announcements

Lunar New Year Offer

J_PM — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:43 GMT

Hey Community!

To celebrate Lunar New Year, for a limited time only, Public Mobile customers can get a 2GB data bonus every month for 8 months, on any plan $25/mo or more online.

Offer Details:

Offer applies to the $25, $35, $40, $50 and $60 plans. This offer is not stackable with other in-market offers. This offer is subject to change without notice..

How to Get this Offer:

Submit your email address here before Feb 2, 2022, 11:59PM EST
Once your email address has been successfully submitted, you will receive a confirmation email with a promo code.
Activate with the same email address by Feb 18, 2022.

How to Activate:

If you need to purchase a SIM card, click here to order a SIM card online through Public Mobile. Your SIM will arrive in 3-10 days. Order by February 2 and activate by March 1 to get this deal.
Visit activate.publicmobile.ca to activate online, or activate in-store
Bonus data will be automatically applied to eligible rate plans within 30 days of activating, and for 8 months after activation.

To learn more about Public Mobile, click here.

- The Public Mobile Community Team

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

dabr — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:42:59 GMT

@J_PM Are there also some LD minutes in addition to the 2GB bonus data for this LNY promo since all the plans eligible have unlimited Canada wide minutes already? Just confused about the following line in your announcement.

"Any unused minutes will roll over to your next cycle."

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

softech — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:42 GMT

Second year in a row, this can be a new Lunar Year tradition!!

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

J_PM — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:02:05 GMT

edit made - no minutes this year. Instead, we added more data! 😁

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

softech — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:04:39 GMT

@J_PM wrote:
edit made - no minutes this year. Instead, we added more data! 😁

Will take anything free 🙂

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

LeePublic — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:09:58 GMT

@J_PM Should the $70 plan be included? Not listed on the announcement.

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

Baloo — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:22:50 GMT

I have to ask, this is only on new activations, not plan changes?

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

softech — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:26:27 GMT

@Baloo yes, unfortunately, it is only for new activation.

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:31:29 GMT

@Baloo : Well...lol...the announcement does not say new. It says activations though. Another change along with not mentioning the $70 plan is that this says in-store.

The fine print says new. And online. And says $25 or more but then also further down does not mention $70.

Good ol' copy/paste.

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

Colleen_O — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 02:00:47 GMT

Public Mobile definitely needs to edit this announcement if it is for new customers only. When I first read it, I assumed it was for all Public Mobile customers because of the way that the intro paragraph is worded: "To celebrate Lunar New Year, for a limited time only, Public Mobile customers can get …." Nowhere in that paragraph does it state is for NEW customers only and vaguely implies it's for new customers at the end of the announcement.

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

dna2016 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 05:37:05 GMT

2GB for 8 months, not sure if this will truly draw people in, especially if the promo is not stackable with other potential promos. If you're really trying to attract new activations I think you gotta add a little something more to this. 2GB for a limited time (8 months) and not stackable, I don't know, I don't see too many people rushing to activate just for this.

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

helenhelen — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 05:23:06 GMT

So this is for new activations only then? Not old customers? I almost switched my plan to access this but I have a grandfathered $30 plan and would lose it, so I am glad I read the other comments here!

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

AE_Collector — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:28:18 GMT

The LAST new customer offer failed to include the $60 plan even though it was included on $35, $40, $50 and $70 plans. This one isn’t available to someone signing up on the $70 plan? Assuming this is an error, can’t someone pay a little bit more attention to detail on this stuff? It’s constant!

AE_Collector

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

Breathlesshush — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:08:59 GMT

@Baloo : Well...lol...the announcement does not say new. It says activations though. Another change along with not mentioning the $70 plan is that this says in-store.

The fine print says new. And online. And says $25 or more but then also further down does not mention $70.

Good ol' copy/paste.

I have to agree - NOWHERE in the main post does it mention "New activations only". It is very misleading, and frankly, disappointing. If I may make a suggestion:

Edit the main post to CLEARLY state only new activations are eligible for offer. Please.

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

AE_Collector — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:30:47 GMT

Maybe it is a permanent 2GB every 30 days for DIY “online” activations? Like the offer has been for the last half a year or so except the dealer activation is bumped to first 8 months rather than first 6 months?

AE_Collector

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

RGeek — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:15:41 GMT

Hi, is it applicable only for new connections? How to add it to existing plans with Auto Pay?

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

softech — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:17:54 GMT

@RGeek wrote:
Hi, is it applicable only for new connections? How to add it to existing plans with Auto Pay?

@RGeek Only for new activation.

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

AE_Collector — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 02:29:28 GMT

@RGeek wrote:
Hi, is it applicable only for new connections? How to add it to existing plans with Auto Pay?

Were you a PM customer in December? Did you get the freebies they handed out to existing customers which are given to help appease existing customers (who signed up in the past under what ever sort of new customer offer was available at that time) and reward then for remaining loyal. All companies have sign up perks for “new customers only” to help sway them over from the competition. You have to start from scratch with a new SIM card and new phone number but the good news is that you actually can do that if it is beneficial for you because you aren’t locked into a two year contract here like you would be at many other providers.

AE_Collector

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

BTKF — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:20:00 GMT

Dang, like most other people here it seems, I thought by the way it was phrased that it was good for everyone, not just new activations.

I can confirm that if you go through the process, the code they give you is for new activations only.

PM needs to proof read their announcements!

Re: Lunar New Year Offer

dabr — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:35:48 GMT

@BTKF Yes, it seems proofreading is not something that is practised much around here, at least for official announcements there should be a higher standard. JMO... 😊