topic Re: Considering joining, motivate me! in Get Support

Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:41:18 GMT

I am considering joining public mobile. I would be motivated to join today if fees could be waived. I want a free sim card, Just my regular monthly prepaid plan fee. If this request is feasible please respond.

I have 3 sim cards already, only one works.

I feel it should be the providers responsibility to furnish this hardware.

I am paying my bill up front right?

I have been happy with my current providers service. And really am curious about the functionality of this new system, albeit cynical.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

kb_mv — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:46:56 GMT

@Markmark2112 wrote:
I am considering joining public mobile. I would be motivated to join today if fees could be waived. I want a free sim card, Just my regular monthly prepaid plan fee. If this request is feasible please respond.
I have 3 sim cards already, only one works.
I feel it should be the providers responsibility to furnish this hardware.
I am paying my bill up front right?
I have been happy with my current providers service. And really am curious about the functionality of this new system, albeit cynical.

@Markmark2112 LOL. I gather you are not aware that we are just customers like you. You will be waiting a long time for someone from the company to contact you and give you a free sim to lure you in. Trust me the loyalty rewards and free gifts of data and minutes are worth it.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

BasesLoadedWalk — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:18:33 GMT

It's probably best to not come off as being so entitled. Choose the provider that works best for you under the current offers provided to everyone.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Dunkman — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:49:18 GMT

@Markmark2112

If you live in Western Canada, London drugs has a special promotion until end of today, where you can get free SIM card and $10 calling credit. You can sign up a friend referral for another $10. Otherwise, you could try to activate at a Walmart and some reps will offer the SIM card for free.

If you register your email first, you can get 2nd month free and additional 5 GB data add on.

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Announcements/Boxing-Week-Savings-Get-your-second-month-FREE-plus-5GB-of-data/m-p/631821

Yes, PM is prepaid, so you will be paying first month + taxes.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Jb456 — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:55:20 GMT

@Markmark2112

Sorry Public Mobile does not offer free sim cards. Sometimes they go on sale. Or other places such as Walmart) London Drugs sometimes offer a free sim card if you activate in store with them. Then you have places like Canadian Cell Supplies that have discounted sims. Sometimes as low as $2.

However if you use a referral code when activating you will receive a $10 signup bonus credited to your account within 72 hours of activation. That basically covers your sim.

You could be eligible for second 30 days Free as well as a 5 gig bonus. Check link beliw.

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Announcements/Boxing-Week-Savings-Get-your-second-month-FREE-plus-5GB-of-data/m-p/631821

You just missed free holiday gifts unfortunately.2 gigs & 500 international call minutes, an Amazon draw and a community forum contests. Unfortunately it's to late for all that now.

PM does have 4 different types of rewards you can earn. Fastest is adding a credit card , visa debit card to your account. You'll get $2 off per 30 days. The other rewards at Loyalty. $1 off after a year max 5 years. Referrals. $1 off per referral. Finally participation in these forums to help members could earn you $1 to $15 off per month. $20 is reserved for Oracle's.

Also take note plans are NOT monthly there 30 days.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:58:56 GMT

Wow. I live in Sherwood park alberta. And there is a London drugs just around the corner.

Thank you for this great solution!!!!😍😍😍😍😍

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Dunkman — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:05:50 GMT

@Markmark2112 wrote:
Wow. I live in Sherwood park alberta. And there is a London drugs just around the corner.

Thank you for this great solution!!!!😍😍😍😍😍

@Markmark2112

That is good news for you.

Make sure that you register your email address first with following link:

https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/on/boxingweek

Ask London drugs rep to enter your friend referral code with activation of SIM card. If you don't have one, just let us know. If you are porting over from another company, bring your old carrier account number, account holder name and phone number. That information is needed for porting the number.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:28:15 GMT

**************************************** we should support innovation 💡

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:30:04 GMT

I appreciate your positive attitude.

Helping is a great way of life.

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Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:16:52 GMT

@Dunkman Hey there dunkman!!!if you can provide me with that freind code. This could be a mutually benificial conversation.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Dunkman — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:21:31 GMT

@Markmark2112

Thanks. Check your private message. Envelope icon on upper right corner of web page.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

LurganIeUk — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:23:53 GMT

@Markmark2112 wrote:
You're just pissy cause I thought to ask. we should support innovation 💡

Innovation....for a free SIM card is out there but not sponsored by PM. But many other innovations that no one else offers are here. But Prima Donna attitudes won’t get you any where. There is an old saying about honey.... “You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.” May try to choose your words wisely and you can achieve what you are looking for.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:24:15 GMT

@Dunkman Consider it done. Lol I was looking in my msn email...dont do that kids✅

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:27:10 GMT

@LurganIeUkim doing this to save a buck...other people's optinion of me is none of my buisness....

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Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

gatorgirrrl — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 02:29:52 GMT

It's only $10 for a Public Mobile SIM and I've been really happy since switching from Virgin.

It's month by month and very affordable. I get twice the data for $15 less than on Virgin.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:15:13 GMT

I'm with chatr now. The online app is a complete frustrating joke.

I am looking at this platform seeing a significant difference. Hopefully the grass is greener here...there is no human customer service to keep on your phone line for hours, refunding a mistake in billing...hehehe I've done that a fee times when I had more time than money 💰

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

computergeek541 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:18:29 GMT

@Markmark2112 wrote:
I'm with chatr now. The online app is a complete frustrating joke.
I am looking at this platform seeing a significant difference. Hopefully the grass is greener here...there is no human customer service to keep on your phone line for hours, refunding a mistake in billing...hehehe I've done that a fee times when I had more time than money 💰

If you're planning on moving your phone number over from Chatr, call customer service at Chatr to get your account number. While it's possible to do a number port using the IMEI, the carriers generally prefer that the account number is used.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Jb456 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:29:08 GMT

@Markmark2112

Public Mobile support is all online no call center. Id suggest if you have any questions to post on the forums here and not try the chat bot. The bot can be annoying & frustrating lol. It would likely direct you back to the forums here anyways.

Is there anything we can help you with at the moment?

As for PM. I think you may enjoy it once you get the hang of things. It's pretty straight forward. Pick a plan. Pay it every 30 days.

Some tips with PM.

The renewal system is somewhat outdated and you may get confused at first renewal. But I'll explain below and you'll know not to worry.

At Payment due date if you log into your account you may get worried seeing all different statuses. (It's suggested not even to log in to check as long as your service is working.

You account will go as followed.

Active to Expired
Expired to suspended with this note at the top of page.
Once system collects the funds and processes everything in the back end then your account will go from Suspended back to Active with the next payment due date showing.

If service is working with no issues just ignore everything in your account and let the system do its thing.

Another tip. You can add auto-pay to receive a $2 reward per 30 days. You do NOT have to let the system charge your card at payment due date. You can always manually add funds before hand. You can even use top up vouchers and you will still get the $2 auto-pay reward as long as your account is set up for auto-pay.

A reason why people manually add funds a few days before payment is it can happen that autoplay fails and then your service will stop. Not saying it happens all the time nor does it happen to everyone. Someone could be with PM for years with no issues and someone could be with PM for a few months and have an autopsy issue.

Some people avoid this issues by doing a manual top-up when they get their payment reminder text. A few days before your payment is due PM sends you a text from 611 reminding you that your payment is coming up. It looks like below.

Some when they get that text log into their account and add money to the account for their plan.

Any other questions you may have feel free to ask.

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

Markmark2112 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:38:17 GMT

Another provider burned me on prepayment. They removed funds for debt that had already been paid.

That was a massive head ache for me. And the last I patroned that disorganization.

Have you heard of this problem occurring with pm?

Re: Considering joining, motivate me!

computergeek541 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:46:24 GMT

@Markmark2112 wrote:
Another provider burned me on prepayment. They removed funds for debt that had already been paid.
That was a massive head ache for me. And the last I patroned that disorganization.
Have you heard of this problem occurring with pm?

If you speaking about Chatr, they charge the full amount that has been set up for automatic payments regardless of the current account balance or the amount needed to be topped up to renew the plan. Public Mobile only charges what is needed during the autopay process. Public Mobile refers to this as dynamic autopay.