topic Re: Foreign credit card? in Get Support

Foreign credit card?

frosstman — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:35:28 GMT

Hi, we have an international student from Vietnam living with us for three months. She plans to sign up for Public Mobile. Will her credit card based in Vietnam be accepted?

Re: Foreign credit card?

ute1978 — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:02:54 GMT

Short answer --- NO.

Only Canadian credit cards are accepted.

Re: Foreign credit card?

ShawnC13 — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:06:19 GMT

@frosstman wrote:
Hi, we have an international student from Vietnam living with us for three months. She plans to sign up for Public Mobile. Will her credit card based in Vietnam be accepted?

As stated above no international cards are accepted but she could always purchase the value in vouchers for three months and load them into the account. She just wouldn't get autopay rewards.

Re: Foreign credit card?

Luddite — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:12:46 GMT

Prepaid Visa cards, but NOT gift cards, are accepted; try ScotiaBank. Use vouchers instead; check these stores:

Esso
Shopper's Drug Market
Canadian Tire Gas Bar
Shell
Hasty Market
Ultramar
Uniprix
Walmart
WOW Mobile (will activate SIM too)
K Mobile
Jean Coutu
Pharmaprix

Re: Foreign credit card?

NDesai — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:29:43 GMT

@ShawnC13 @Luddite Actually Prepaid Mastercard (Gift Card) works. I tested this the other day and i was able to successfully add it to my account. The card was from this site: https://mastercard.giftcardstore.ca

@frosstman This will allow her to add this type of gift card to her self-serve account so she can enable AutoPay. To avoid any problem with the payment coming out of the added gift card, vouchers can be used.

Re: Foreign credit card?

tcowtan — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:23:15 GMT

This is indeed an irritation.

I bought the SIM card using an international credit card, but now that I want to activate it, I can't.

I'm overseas and need the number to book things for my trip - there are no vouchers over here!

Re: Foreign credit card?

ChuckYeah — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:30:45 GMT

Best to start your own thread for better exposure of your issue.

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/paying_for_your-service

Im not 100 % sure what's happening here. PM cellular cannot be accessed from overseas eh?

Re: Foreign credit card?

Triguy — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:30:24 GMT

You could try using recharge.com to make a payment.

Re: Foreign credit card?

srlawren — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:33:16 GMT

@tcowtan wrote:

I'm overseas and need the number to book things for my trip - there are no vouchers over here!

@tcowtan try recharge.com. They aceept international cards.

Re: Foreign credit card?

computergeek541 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 02:10:03 GMT

@srlawren wrote:
@tcowtan wrote:

I'm overseas and need the number to book things for my trip - there are no vouchers over here!
@tcowtan try recharge.com. They aceept international cards.

They also accept Paypal. As much as many people dislike the company, that's huge because that allows people to use funds already in the balance and for even more payment options through them. The other thing that Paypal has going for them is how people feel beter giving their credit card numbers to less companies. I think that accepting Paypal would benefit Public Mobile greatly, assuming that they were able to negotiate a rate that was agreeable to them.