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A Letter From Dave: Reflecting on our journey together + Introducing our 5 Days of Giving!

Dave_M
Retraité / Retired
Retraité / Retired

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Hi Community,

 

This December, we are celebrating 5 years since we embarked on a journey to redefine how wireless service is delivered to Canadians. We started down this path with the goal of giving Canadians control over their wireless spend. 

 

Central to the journey was the belief that if we did things differently and we saved on costs, we could pass off those savings to our customers as a result. This is how our online support model, and our beloved Community, came to be. At the time, I was told over and over again that this was a crazy idea; it would never work. Yet here we are, 5 years later.

 

I want to sincerely thank you for supporting our crazy ideas and playing a part in making Public Mobile what it is today. We could not have done it without you. Of course, we still have lots of room to make things even better, and we’re excited about incorporating your ideas in 2019 and beyond. In particular, this is the wish list of things you’ve asked us to focus on next and that we are passionately working on:

 

  1. Faster Moderator response times
  2. An improved ticket submission process
  3. Additional goodness from SIMon The Bot 

 

To thank you for being on this journey with us, we thought we’d have our own Public Mobile Advent Calendar and give away gifts everyday. But, in true #LessforLess spirit, we’re going to keep it to 5 days only because 25 would get very expensive. 🙂

 

With that said, we’re going to be holding a contest everyday from December 10 to 14 to get your holidays off to a great start! Each day, we’ll be announcing 5 winners. Make sure you come back on Dec 10th and check back every day next week!

 

Good luck!

 

Sincerely,

Dave

 

Contest:

Day 5 of 5

‘Tis the season to be jolly! Carolling aside, we hope that our deals are also music to your ears. To help you enjoy all sorts of music, enter for a chance to win 1 of 5 BassPal SoundRo X3 Portable Bluetooth Speakers, please share with us your favourite holiday tunes. Entrants must be an existing Public Mobile customer; please read Contest Rules for more details.


Well, today wraps up our 5-day advent calendar. If you didn’t win anything,have no fear- we still have something for you!

 


Get $20 for Free When You Sign Up for KOHO with the Code PUBLICMOBILE (until February 14)

 

The holiday season is a lot of great things, but cheap isn’t one of them! That’s why Public Mobile has partnered with KOHO to help you accelerate your savings and earn a little free money too.

 

KOHO is a financial tech company whose mission it is to make finances simple and transparent. They offer a slick reloadable Visa card and an integrated app. Get real-time insights into your money, automate your savings goals, and earn instant cash-back on all your purchases. KOHO is also free, because paying bank fees is so 2018.

 

Download the app now to get $20 when you join KOHO with the promo code PUBLICMOBILE.

The Public Mobile promotional code is available to the first 1000 customers.
Offer only available for Public Mobile customers.


Let’s break it down, step-by-step:

  1. Download the KOHO app and sign up with the promo code PUBLICMOBILE

 

  2. Add funds to your KOHO account and make your first purchase


  3. You don’t have to wait for your physical card to arrive. Shop online instantly by creating a virtual card in the app!


  4. Once you make your first purchase, $20 will instantly be added to your KOHO account


KOHO is backed by some of Canada’s leading investors, and your funds are held securely by Peoples Trust.


 

Contest Rules: 

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Public Mobile Holiday Contest

CONTEST RULES


  1.        HOW TO ENTER & ELIGIBILITY

No Purchase Necessary.  To enter entrants must share a response on the Public Mobile Community post sharing their favourite holiday tune(s).

Only one entry per entrant accepted.  No other form of participation is accepted.  In the event of a dispute on the entrant identity, the person who is the holder of the email address specified on the online form will be deemed to be the entrant.

If your entry contains a person, other than the entrant, by entering the contest, you state that you have obtained consent from everyone in the photo. If your photo contains a minor (under the age of 18) parental or legal guardian consent is required.

Contest runs December 14, 2018 only from 9:00AM to 11:59PM ET.


An Entry will be considered void and removed from the Community post if it contains subject matter that, in the opinion of the contest administrators, may violate community standards or is otherwise of questionable taste.


To be eligible, an entrant must be an existing Public Mobile customer and entry must be received on or before end of contest closing date and time. Entrants must be a Canadian resident who are 13 years of age or older and must be a member of the Public Mobile online Community. Contest not open to employees of TELUS Corporation, its affiliated companies or subsidiaries, its sales agents, its advertising and promotional agencies, and members with whom they are domiciled.  By accepting these Contest Rules, entrants agree that any and all liability related to this contest by TELUS is limited to the value of the Prize(s) as defined hereinafter.


  1.      THE PRIZE

There will be five (5) prizes awarded in total.  Winner will receive the following prize:

-1 of 5 BassPal SoundRo X3 Portable Bluetooth Speakers (approx retail value $44.99)


Prize must be accepted as awarded and with no substitutions, is not transferable unless set out in the Contest Rules and cannot be exchanged with Public Mobile or cash. Public Mobile reserves the right to substitute the Prize with a Prize of equivalent value if such prize becomes unavailable for any reason.  The chances of winning are dependent upon the total number of eligible entries received.


  1.      THE DRAW

A random draw for the Prize will take place at the Public Mobile office located at 25 York Street, Toronto, Ontario the day following the close of the contest (on or about 9:00am ET). Selected entrants will be notified on the Public Mobile Community. If the selected entrant cannot be reached within two (2) business days, or if the selected entrant does not meet any of the contest requirements, another entrant will be selected from the remaining eligible entries.


In order to win, the selected entrant must correctly answer unaided a mathematical skill-testing question and will be required to sign a standard release form.  If the selected entrant is under the age of majority in his/her province of residence, his/her parent or legal guardian must read and accept these Contest Rules.  Failure to answer the skill-testing question correctly, comply with the Contest Rules or sign and return the release form within two (2) days of receipt will result in disqualification and another entry will be selected until the Prize is awarded. Prize will be delivered to a Canadian address of the winner’s choice within (7) business days after prize has been awarded.


  1.      PRIVACY

By entering the contest, entrants consent to the use of their names, city of residence, photograph, voice and/or image for publicity purposes in all media used by Public Mobile, without payment or compensation.  Entrants agree to TELUS’ use of the entrants’ personal information that may include contacting you regarding limited time offers, promotional offers and/or surveys. Full details are as described in Public Mobiles’ privacy policy located at publicmobile.ca/termsofservice.


  1.      OTHER

All entries become the property of Public Mobile. Public Mobile assumes no responsibility for lost, damaged or misdirected entries during the contest period, for any problems or technical malfunction of any online systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software and failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Public Mobile on account of technical problems, traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or failure of handset or mobile web browser. Public Mobile reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, cancel or suspend this contest without prior notice. Entries are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are mechanically reproduced, forged, falsified, altered, tampered with, not in accordance with Community standards or unlawful in any way. Entries submitted by unauthorized means will be disqualified. In the event that it has been determined that an entry has been made in an manner not sanctioned by these rules and/or an entrant has submitted more than the number of entries permitted by these rules, the entrant and all of his/her entries will be disqualified.  Entrants agree to abide by the contest rules and the decisions of the contest judges, which are final. This contest is subject to all applicable laws and regulations.

 

Winners:

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12/10 ($50 Account Credit): Willaug56, bradman20012, @hultman, Vicky1313, Iorieux

12/11 (PM Swag Bag): lat34hat34, slash407, shartomjam, SD08, mcs11 

12/12 (Die Hard Blu-Ray Collection): @socialcocoon, Sphero, Adrian03, feedo, Sidewinder200

12/13 (Amazon Fire TV Stick): Canadaknows, ooakosiryan, 6500K, eizzor, francis26 

12/14 (BassPro Bluetooth Speaker): @Someone_here@itchyfeet01@ty_89@ntoulany@MacMe

 

886 REPLIES 886

ryanmobile
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

The support system and better response time would be great. 

bradp36
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Scored a 55" 4K TV to use for my Xbox One for $349 on sale from $899! Never been happier with a purchase.

johnny5
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Best Holiday Deal Contest !

 

Count me in

talas11
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

I got a great internet deal for our house:

500 Gbps, unlimited usage, for 40$ a month + 50% off the first 6 months, making it 20$ a month. That includes the modem. Deal is indefinite. Black Friday woo!

mrdhchoi
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

Best holiday deal

miko85
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

I just love public mobile, im so happy that my bills do not have any surprises - I am happy that its simple and highly effective. The prices are so reasonable and my life has been de stressed becuase I dont have to worry about a surprise phone bill or some none sense that I was not told of.

Thanks

joejn27
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

Got a work discount of 50% for bose quiet comfort 35

Aiden
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

On the weekend my wife who is now pregnant with our 2nd found a $250 maternity winter jacket for 95% off (down filled and water proof with the extenders that can be used during and post pregnancy)

 

It was on sale, with bonus extra sale % off and another bonus for clearance and finally a scratch card saving 

 

even the cashier was shocked!

 

cant even get a zipper for $13

 

 

 

 

lawchristopher
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

It was definitely the switch to Public Mobile for me. Switched everyone in my family and got the Black Friday deal 🙂

DWood
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Best Holiday Deal...

 

I think my best Holiday Deal was finding 200$ cash stuck to the wet pavement in front of Dufferin Mall one Christmas when I had ZERO dollars to my name. I went right back into the mall and bought winter boots with soaked money! 

 

Thanks everybody,

Danny

jukos
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

got an asus zenfone 3 zoom at costco for $279. This is a lot of phone for that price.

smp99
Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire

@Dave_M wrote:

 

 

Contest:

Day 1 of 5

At Public Mobile, we love great deals- that’s why we got rid of all the bells and whistles to save our customers money. We know our customers are really good at finding ways to save money too. For a chance to win 1 of 5 one-time $50 Public Mobile account credits, share with us the best holiday deal you’ve ever gotten! Entrants must be an existing Public Mobile customer; please read Contest Rules for more details.

 

Best Christmas gift for me was way back as a child and we got a 19" COLOUR TV. Unreal. Yes - it was some time ago.

 

 

olgakcoulter
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

My best holiday deal is not having to spend hundreds of dollars a month on cell phone bills like I did before with other providers. I have now switched three users in my household to Public Mobile and we never looked back. You guys rock!!!

Sunshine3364
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

The Best Holiday Deal I have gotten was season passes for Discovery Harbour & Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. They are good from purchase date until the end of 2019.

thunderaxe
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

i recently took advantage of the waves cyber monday deal ($29 plugins plus buy 2 get 1 free) to get 6 professional audio plugins for a grand total of $150 CAD.

SD08
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

@Dave_M@  wrote:

With that said, we’re going to be holding a contest everyday from December 10 to 14 to get your holidays off to a great start! Each day, we’ll be announcing 5 winners. Make sure you come back on Dec 10th and check back every day next week!

 

Contest:

Day 1 of 5

At Public Mobile, we love great deals- that’s why we got rid of all the bells and whistles to save our customers money. We know our customers are really good at finding ways to save money too. For a chance to win 1 of 5 one-time $50 Public Mobile account credits, share with us the best holiday deal you’ve ever gotten! Entrants must be an existing Public Mobile customer; please read Contest Rules for more details.

 


@Alan_K

Just to clarify, since there are effectively 5 separate contests on 5 separate days, for a total of 25 prizes (5x5) given out, winning on Day 1 does not disqualify someone from participating and also winning on Days 2, 3, 4 and 5, correct?

 

If it were up to me, I think it should be limited to one win per person for the entire 5 days, to spread the holiday cheer to as many members as possible.  Otherwise, we could end up with a situation where one member has multiple wins, while other members who participated just as much in this contest week get no wins.

Ciph
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

@Dave_M, this year my best deal so far has been 2 Intel 512GB solid state drives (with 5 years warranty and endurance of 288 terabytes written) I got for effectively $64.99 each from Newegg.ca with promo codes and free shipping on Black Friday. The price have increased somewhat since but still a great deal for $89.99 now for those still interested.

On the other hand, my best ever "Holiday" deal was probably an assortment of ties I bought from Amazon a couple of years ago (perhaps not exactly a holiday deal since it was late in the winter season as I remember). Initially, it was just a on-the-spur purchase because the ties were so cheap (less than $2 each if I recall well) and bought about 20-30 different kinds (color/design/type). I was almost sure that they would turn out to be cheap tiny toy ties of some sort but it was cheap enough to try and have fun or simply return them if it was a disaster. However, I was absolutely flabbergasted by the quality of these "cheap" ties once I received them. Although, they were all made in China, I was quite suspiciously impressed with their workmanship, the quality of the fabric, hems and noticeable hand stitching even the grosgrain creating the subdued moiré effect was decent if not excellent. I checked back to see if I could buy some more but the prices were increased to around $30 each. Now they aren't even being sold anymore, rather the amazon store doesn't exist anymore. Was it just dumb luck on a awesome deal or price error I'm not sure.

Although these ties are still holding strong without showing wear or any permanent crinkle, I have not yet been given the unfortunate opportunity to have them put through the washing machine test. I fear that they may finally reveal their "cheap-ness" then. Nevertheless, they remain a amazing deal that I can keep on enjoying for a few more years hopefully.

krzcnck
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

Bought an Elias Petterson jersey off Ebay that was regular $199.99 for $30 off and free shipping, it was a pro adidas adizero

 


 


 

Couple years ago when 4k TVs were not so popular, i scored a 720p LED TV from RCSS using my PC optimum points (130k). Normally you would have to pay the full tax amount, but they had no tax day. So i didn't pay a penny for it 🙂

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One of my better XMAS deals.  Getting an Ipad on Blackfriday sale, with an additional $30 coupon.  Pretty good deal for apple product.  

mimmo
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

Just bought my wife a pair of Sony noise canceling headphones 300$ instead of 450.  Happy wife = happy me. 🙂 

lemew07
Great Citizen / Super Citoyen

In the spirit of christmas the best deal I can remember was shopping for my partnere at christmas. I found the Item I wanted and to my supprise it was on sale at 20% off. Brhind me in line was a woman and she asked me if I wanted a 40% of coupon. I gladly accepted and purchased my gift at 60% off. All the best Merry Christmas Lemew

RC31
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Best deal I ever got was getting a brand new dyson (DC26) for $179.  It was on amazon US but that was when the CAD was near par

Day 1 of 5

At Public Mobile, we love great deals- that’s why we got rid of all the bells and whistles to save our customers money. We know our customers are really good at finding ways to save money too. For a chance to win 1 of 5 one-time $50 Public Mobile account credits, share with us the best holiday deal you’ve ever gotten! Entrants must be an existing Public Mobile customer; please read Contest Rules for more details.

Zoryan
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Scored a ps4 pro last year for 250$ from Walmart was awesome ! It was when the regular ones where I sale for 300$ but the pro I grabbed had a faulty scan code so they gave it to me for the price it scanned in at! 

itchyfeet01
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

So being budget-conscious, I couldn't bear to spend $300 to $500 on a Kitchenaid mixer, but I did score an all-metal, high-quality Hamilton Beach mixer for $40! Normally $200 USD. Now making more cupcakes than I probably should.

shartomjam
Town Hero / Héro de la Ville

So many great deals over the years. Best deal so far this year is a small chest freezer - $100 off regular price.  Not bad.

mcs11
Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle

I was at an outlet mall and the Coach store was having a 50% to 70% sale -- and that was off the outlet price! Okay, so I'm not big on designer handbags, but when the deal is that good, how can you not buy one? Or two? And maybe a wallet, too...

 

Dunkgirl
Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire

 

@Dave_M@ wrote
Spoiler

 Contest:

Day 1 of 5

At Public Mobile, we love great deals- that’s why we got rid of all the bells and whistles to save our customers money. We know our customers are really good at finding ways to save money too. For a chance to win 1 of 5 one-time $50 Public Mobile account credits, share with us the best holiday deal you’ve ever gotten! Entrants must be an existing Public Mobile customer; please read Contest Rules for more details.

 

 

Half price. Last minute gift deals. Shark Rocket DeluxePro Ultra-Light Stick Vacuum with hard floor attachment regular @329.99 on sale for $164.99 better than dyson but much cheaper.

SD08
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

@Dave_M  wrote:

Day 1 of 5

At Public Mobile, we love great deals- that’s why we got rid of all the bells and whistles to save our customers money. We know our customers are really good at finding ways to save money too. For a chance to win 1 of 5 one-time $50 Public Mobile account credits, share with us the best holiday deal you’ve ever gotten! Entrants must be an existing Public Mobile customer; please read Contest Rules for more details.

 


About 15 years ago, I picked up a leather jacket for $200 from Danier.  Original price was $700.

GR
Mayor / Maire

A few years ago got a smart tv at 70% off on a one day sale

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