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Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

SD08 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:54:24 GMT

FYI, for those looking to buy PM vouchers, I just wanted bring to your attention that many regular Canadian Tire stores also carry them now, not just Canadian Tire Gas Bars, even though PM's voucher retailer list only indicates CT gas bars. I've recently discovered them in CT stores in Toronto. There may be a service fee added to your purchase which may vary depending on location. Check with your local store.

They are available at the customer service desk, which will have a ringed booklet including prepaid top-ups from various mobile carriers. The Public Mobile vouchers are available in denominations of $5, $20, and $40. Note, these cards pictured are not the actual vouchers, but the cashier's scan cards.

Reverse side:

On their gift card rack (CT now carries gift cards for various retailers), you may also see this card, which you can bring to the customer service desk to get the actual voucher:

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Samianauman — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 20:33:48 GMT

That's a great piece of information thx for sharing

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

NDesai — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 21:39:54 GMT

Hopefully CT here in the west have them too. Will they accept CT gift card for this or that doesn't change?

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Quest — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 00:04:27 GMT

@SDO8 wrote:
FYI, for those looking to buy PM vouchers, I just wanted bring to your attention that many regular Canadian Tire stores also carry them now, not just Canadian Tire Gas Bars, even though PM's voucher retailer list only indicates CT gas bars. I've recently discovered them in CT stores in Toronto. There may be a service fee added to your purchase which may vary depending on location. Check with your local store.

They are available at the customer service desk, which will have a ringed booklet including prepaid top-ups from various mobile carriers. The Public Mobile vouchers are available in denominations of $5, $20, and $40. Note, these cards pictured are not the actual vouchers, but the cashier's scan cards.

Reverse side:

On their gift card rack (CT now carries gift cards for various retailers), you may also see this card, which you can bring to the customer service desk to get the actual voucher:

@SD08 I think if ..." there may be a service fee added to your purchase which may vary depending on location"... your plan is automatically becoming more expensive. So far I have never paid any extra fee but it could change anytime. I know that PM is looking for any options of payment that can save them money. So I don't know if they could add Interac Online Option like chatr for example, is doing.

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Wonder_why — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:28:09 GMT

I am pretty sure PM will not accepted beside PM gift cards, might accepted Telus or Kudoo

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Samianauman — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:32:07 GMT

I think the same thing I would rather be happy with auto pay less hassle without losing service it's a great feature of public mobile

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

SD08 — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 02:07:28 GMT

@Wonder_why wrote:
I am pretty sure PM will not accepted beside PM gift cards, might accepted Telus or Kudoo

@Wonder_why

I'm not sure what you're referring to, but if you were trying to answer @NDesai's question, he was asking if Canadian Tire stores accepted Canadian Tire gift cards as payment when buying Public Mobile vouchers from CT stores. The answer is, they may or may not accept the gift cards, depending on location. Only the specific CT store or gas bar can answer that for sure. Some CT stores/gas bars in Toronto don't allow the use of gift cards as payment for other gift cards/vouchers, as I've discovered recently:
http://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Paying-for-your-service/PM-Vouchers-Shoppers/m-p/145304/highlight/true#M10133

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Samianauman — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 02:08:20 GMT

In Hamilton ontario I used my Canadian tire money only in store you can't redeem at gas bar only store can redeem as far I know in store u can use your ct Money for anything

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

NDesai — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 03:26:16 GMT

So i went today to CT to find out. On the GC rack, i found little card same as the last pic in the first post. I went to ask if they will accept CT GC for this. But unfortunately, they had no idea about that vouchers. They tried to scan but nothing came up. I showed the SKU# but still nothing came up. They couldn't find the ring booklet. The person just told me that this is considered a GC so most likley they won't accept CT GC for it if when its set up properly in their system. Huge YMMV.

If they charge fees for it, i don't see why they wouldn't accept their gift card. Whos gonna actually not pay directly on public mobile and pay the fees lol.

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Samianauman — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 03:21:53 GMT

Thx @NDesai for updating us much appreciate it

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

SD08 — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 04:29:30 GMT

@NDesai

Thanks for sharing your finding.

Indeed, I'm surprised at just how much it is YMMV. Usually, large chains have things like this standardized. One store scanned the $40 voucher for a total of $45.85 after 13% tax, which meant a service charge of $0.65 ($0.575+tx)? Another store scanned it to exactly $45.20, which meant no service fee at all. Yet another store said they didn't have them right now because it was "seasonal." LOL, since when are prepaid mobile top-ups seasonal?

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Samianauman — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 04:32:02 GMT

Seasonal isn't public mobile runs year round or its a seasonal service lol

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

NDesai — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 04:58:26 GMT

They treat this as gift cards but we all know they are not those type of cards that we gift to someone. It clearly says Top-ups lol

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Acekiller — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:09:14 GMT

CT gas bar in Edmonton charges $1 service fee for $100 (max) load up.

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Ricky123489 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:22:22 GMT

What if i need $60?

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

SD08 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:31:00 GMT

@Ricky123489 wrote:
What if i need $60?

@Ricky123489

The CT gas bars sell the vouchers in various denominations up to $100. Some might even have real-time vouchers which can be any amount you want. If the exact denomination you need isn't available, just get something higher than what you actually need and the extra amount can stay in your account as available funds until your next renewal. Go higher rather than lower, because there is often a small service charge with each voucher purchase.

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

dubey — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:38:01 GMT

I purchased $60 today and was taxed on top of that. Is that normal? Never used a voucher or even pre-paid service before

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Lieux — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:49:44 GMT

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:40:58 GMT

@dubey wrote:
I purchased $60 today and was taxed on top of that. Is that normal? Never used a voucher or even pre-paid service before

No escaping taxes. You pay for them at point of purchase or in your credit card.

Re: Public Mobile vouchers now available in Canadian Tire stores (not only at CT gas bars)

computergeek541 — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:42:34 GMT

@dubey wrote:
I purchased $60 today and was taxed on top of that. Is that normal? Never used a voucher or even pre-paid service before

Yes

Taxes gets charged at the the time of purchasing any top up or voucher, whether it's through publicmobile.ca or through a retail location. This is normal, and is in contrast to the way the purchase of gift cards usually works.