topic Re: Balance down to zero in Get Support

Balance down to zero

danielj — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:39:40 GMT

Has anyone gotten the balance month over month down to zero?

Re: Balance down to zero

stonechucker — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:52:27 GMT

I've been here for over two years on a reward eligible plan. I'm currently saving $27 over 90 days without community rewards, using the AutoPay, Loyalty, and Friend Referral awards. Until recently, I was getting between $10-$15 monthly on Community rewards, ranging in $30-$45 more in savings over 90 days.

My starting plan price is $120/90-days. So I've been around $80 average for the last year.

Re: Balance down to zero

Lieux — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:59:43 GMT

Hello @danielj

It depends on what plan you have!!! With my 10$ plan I can have a balance at 0....with autopay refer a friend and community participation..it's not difficult

Re: Balance down to zero

dna2016 — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:00:05 GMT

@danielj, that would be a great survey question, but I doubt anyone who has a $35 plan and up are able to do that, at least consistently. I'm sure people who are on maybe the $25 or $10 have been much easily able to do that.

Re: Balance down to zero

mimmo — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:02:44 GMT

@danielj @My dad is close, he is on provincial only talk $20/30 days, with loyalty, autopay and refer a friend he is down to $2/month.

Maybe I should create a community account under his name. And get him involved in the community, but since he barely understands how to use the web... That might be too much effort.

Re: Balance down to zero

tehowennathe — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:28:59 GMT

The lowest I can get my $50 plan down to is $22

Re: Balance down to zero

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:13:46 GMT

Lieux and I have the same plan.

@mimmo: toss in a few posts under his userid = $0 🙂

Re: Balance down to zero

will13am — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:24:24 GMT

It is totally doable on paper. Sustaining it is another story. The $25 referral bonuses are a good help.

Re: Balance down to zero

mimmo — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:47:29 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Lieux and I have the same plan.
@mimmo: toss in a few posts under his userid = $0 🙂

yes one community account per selfserve account is allowed, sure I guess I could, but is it really worth the effort? or risk of people saying i am gaming the system?

Re: Balance down to zero

will13am — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:58:11 GMT

@mimmo wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Lieux and I have the same plan.
@mimmo: toss in a few posts under his userid = $0 🙂
yes one community account per selfserve account is allowed, sure I guess I could, but is it really worth the effort? or risk of people saying i am gaming the system?

It is easier to add a couple of referrals to the account. At $2 per month, just one $25 credit is good for a year!

Re: Balance down to zero

mimmo — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:01:19 GMT

@will13am wantto throw some referals my dads way 🙂

@will13am wrote:
It is easier to add a couple of referrals to the account. At $2 per month, just one $25 credit is good for a year!

Re: Balance down to zero

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:03:09 GMT

@mimmo wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Lieux and I have the same plan.
@mimmo: toss in a few posts under his userid = $0 🙂
yes one community account per selfserve account is allowed, sure I guess I could, but is it really worth the effort? or risk of people saying i am gaming the system?

I applaud your integrity.

Re: Balance down to zero

Sharry19 — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:07:43 GMT

@danielj You can get very close to $0/month with these following steps:

Always enable Autopay

If you stay longer let's say 5 years with PM then loyality credit

If you have 10 + referal friends

You get involved into PM community help on daily basis

*** Please note: I am not a Moderator ***

Re: Balance down to zero

NDesai — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:20:39 GMT

As mentioned earlier, it depends on the plan you have. I am still on the grandfathered $90 per 90 days plan. It has been very close to $0 for a few months now after the community rewards changed.

Re: Balance down to zero

computergeek541 — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:22:26 GMT

@mimmo wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Lieux and I have the same plan.
@mimmo: toss in a few posts under his userid = $0 🙂
yes one community account per selfserve account is allowed, sure I guess I could, but is it really worth the effort? or risk of people saying i am gaming the system?

i would say that as long as the two don't participate/interact with each other, that isn't gaming.

Re: Balance down to zero

danielj — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:11:39 GMT

Sounds like lots of people are close. Based on the reward structures and reinforce but what people are saying here the key rewards to get down to zero is refer a friend and community involvement.

Auto pay, loyally and choosing an affordable plan all certainly help.

Having a survey function with in the Public Mobile Form would be interesting, allow people to vote if they reached zero, are close, or not.

Re: Balance down to zero

powerg21 — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:49:50 GMT

How do we earn community rewards? Is it mainly from replying to messages or overall participation in the community as it also tracks the number of articles we read.

Re: Balance down to zero

Metal1967 — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:26:05 GMT

@powerg21 wrote:
How do we earn community rewards? Is it mainly from replying to messages or overall participation in the community as it also tracks the number of articles we read.

@powerg21
Basically if you participate, offer help to other members etc eventually you will recieve rewards at some level. Bravos seem to help although the way PM calculates the rewards is not actually set in stone,its asecret