Put Your Creative Hat On, It’s Make Up Your Own Holiday Day!

[Brooke_C]

Hey Community, 

Today you get to be the CEO of Holiday Creation. Think of anything worthy of celebrating, pick a day on the calendar, and boom, you’ve done it! Here are some holidays we made up to help get your creative juices flowing:

1. Catch Up On Your Shows Day

Still haven’t caught up on the latest season of that show you’re obsessed with? We think a national holiday is in order. On the last Wednesday of August, everyone should get the day off from work to do nothing but sit on the couch and satisfy their cravings by soaking up those final few episodes.

2. White Elephant Delivery Day

It’s like a White Elephant, but for take-out food! Get a group of friends or family together and pull names from a hat. On December 21st, order delivery to that person’s house from a restaurant of your choosing. It would be so much fun opening a box to reveal your mystery dinner!

3. Cringe at Your Old Posts Day

On this day we should look back at our social media posts from ten years ago and say, “Why in the world did I ever put that online?” Sharing old posts is highly encouraged so we can all bask in the cringe-worthy tweets and statuses of old.

Those are just a few of our ideas, but we’d love to hear what you can come up with! Comment below by 12:00 PM ET on April 2, 2019 and tell us what you think Canada’s next new holiday should be and we’ll randomly 3 winners who will receive a one time $50 Public Mobile account credit. Who knows, maybe your holiday will catch on and be Canada’s next big thing! Contest runs March 26 to April 2, 2019. Read Contest Rules before entering.

-Public Mobile Community Team 

Contest Rules

Spoiler

1.        HOW TO ENTER & ELIGIBILITY  
   No Purchase Necessary.  To enter entrants must share their new holiday idea on the Public Mobile Community post. Only one entry per person 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 March 26 to April 2, 2019 at 12:00pm 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 the end of the 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.

2. THE PRIZE
   There will be three (3) prizes awarded.  Each winner will receive the following prize:

One-time $50 Public Mobile account credit

Prize(s) must be accepted as awarded and with no substitutions, is/are 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.

3. THE DRAW
   A random draw for all Prizes will take place at the Public Mobile office located at 25 York Street, Toronto, Ontario on or about April 2 at 12:00PM ET by a TELUS representative. 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 the prize has been awarded.
4. 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.

5. QUEBEC RESIDENTS

Any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a Prize may be submitted to the Régie only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.

6. 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 a 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.

[darlicious]

@sheldonmcbride 

Welcome to the community!   

I'm not sure if you have decided to start at the beginning and work your way forward til you reach 2021 but the current threads will offer more pertinent info and you will learn a little quicker then this method.

FYI.....you can tag another member by tapping the "@" key and a pop up box with usernames will pop up....or you can keep typing until the username you want pops up.

[sheldonmcbride]

Congratulations!

[Patrick_R]

Congradulations way to go !!!!

[Ciph]

Hi,

Just an update for those wondering about the prize awarding process.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn by email that I was amongst the winners of this draw. I seriously did not expect it and might have totally missed it had I not seen my email in time. Although, a two days reply period seems pretty fair to me. The email included a simple four page PDF form where we had to fill with some basic information (name, address, phone, email, etc.), a simple mathematical question and finally date and signature. The last three pages had the contest rules (exactly the same as the contest rules in the announcement post).

Just yesterday, I saw that the prize credit had already been processed a few days ago into my account (screenshot taken on 2019-04-13).Contest Reward (close-up)

Contest Reward (from Transaction History page)

This credit would go toward paying about 2 months of my current 90 days plan (including loyalty, autopay, refer-a-friend and community rewards).

Absentmindedly, I had had already prepaid my plan about 3-4 weeks ago. However, with this unexpected prize, I am tempted to switch to a more expensive plan just for the heck of it.

Many thanks to Brooke and the Public Mobile Community team for making these contests/draws happen every so often and taking care of the community here.

I think I have taken part in most of the draws since the ThriftShop Day contest and this is my first time actually winning.

Again, thanks a bunch.

Ciph

[Anonymous]

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haha thanks, yeah i snoozed though so i loose. turns out theres lots of these competitions

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I wouldn't call them competitions per se. More like entries for a random draw.

There was no update on whether ty_89 received it so I wonder if they would give it to you in the end anyway. I guess giving ty_89 the same amount of time to respond would be fair though.

[denis2]

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@markevee wrote:

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@RobertQc wrote:

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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@ty_89Congrats on your $50.

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Hey did @ty_89 end up claiming there prize? i didnt know that the competition required further action, is there anyways i can claim it.

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Whoa Whoa, I want in on that   

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Well I originally won it, but i missed the email somehow. I think they should consider texting the winners or making it automatic.

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Oh Hey you did !  Well if it was up to me I would give it to you.

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haha thanks, yeah i snoozed though so i loose. turns out theres lots of these competitions

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There is one at this very moment

[markevee]

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@denis2 wrote:

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@markevee wrote:

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@denis2 wrote:

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@markevee wrote:

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@RobertQc wrote:

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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@ty_89Congrats on your $50.

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Hey did @ty_89 end up claiming there prize? i didnt know that the competition required further action, is there anyways i can claim it.

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Whoa Whoa, I want in on that   

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Well I originally won it, but i missed the email somehow. I think they should consider texting the winners or making it automatic.

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Oh Hey you did !  Well if it was up to me I would give it to you.

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haha thanks, yeah i snoozed though so i loose. turns out theres lots of these competitions

[denis2]

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@markevee wrote:

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@denis2 wrote:

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@markevee wrote:

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@RobertQc wrote:

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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@ty_89Congrats on your $50.

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Hey did @ty_89 end up claiming there prize? i didnt know that the competition required further action, is there anyways i can claim it.

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Whoa Whoa, I want in on that   

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Well I originally won it, but i missed the email somehow. I think they should consider texting the winners or making it automatic.

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Oh Hey you did !  Well if it was up to me I would give it to you.

[ShawnC13]

It is participation based forum.  I think a PM and bring tagged in the post is enough for notification

[markevee]

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@denis2 wrote:

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@markevee wrote:

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@RobertQc wrote:

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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@ty_89Congrats on your $50.

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Hey did @ty_89 end up claiming there prize? i didnt know that the competition required further action, is there anyways i can claim it.

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Whoa Whoa, I want in on that   

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Well I originally won it, but i missed the email somehow. I think they should consider texting the winners or making it automatic.

[markevee]

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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I guess markavee took a hike. He didn't seem to enjoy his short experience here. I think he was from elsewhere too.

Yay for ty_89.

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I was just experimenting with other carriers, I was going to change to Bell, as they offered me unlimited talk and text canada wide for $10, but it ended up only being for the first 6 months and subject to all sorts of conditions, i'm lucky i stayed with public through the process because it didn't work out. Public is beggining to grow on me. Community and referal rewards are pretty great. I just hope i still try to claim this prize. I wish they would text you to tell you that you won instead of email you. 

[denis2]

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@markevee wrote:

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@RobertQc wrote:

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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@ty_89Congrats on your $50.

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Hey did @ty_89 end up claiming there prize? i didnt know that the competition required further action, is there anyways i can claim it.

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Whoa Whoa, I want in on that   

[ShawnC13]

These contests are fun and are also to encourage participation in the community.  With the hopes that you will continue to visit and help out.  Even with email notification turned off you would get the notification at the top of the page with a red dot with a number by the bell or envelope

[markevee]

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@RobertQc wrote:

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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@ty_89Congrats on your $50.

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Hey did @ty_89 end up claiming there prize? i didnt know that the competition required further action, is there anyways i can claim it.

[markevee]

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@SD08 wrote:

Hmm...what's with winning contestants not responding?  I happen to know that
new PM community acccounts have e-mail notices for private messages turned on by default, since at least mid-2017. Have they deliberately turned off their e-mail notifications for private messages?  Well, their loss, in that case.

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As a somewhat new client of PM, you can receive quite a lot of email to the point of annoyance. As email notification is on for everything, replies to new posts, Bravo's, badges, tags, ... my phone went off constantly.  My immediate action was to disable email notifications.  So, I can understand why some people would remove notification.  Alternatively, they might not have the account link to their phone and/or seldomly check the account.

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Hello sorry I got the email, but it was late I did send the release form back. I thought this competitions were automatic, as anything posted online is subject to be shared. I also feel like two days is not alot of time to respond. I do think the emails get lost in the large abundance also. 

[robertmay]

i totally missed this post because i dont log into the forum unless i have a technical problem.  There should be a catch up on the forum post day.

[Kovaelin]

People prioritize DMs over @s, and I think keeping e-mail notifications for DMs (and important messages being sent by DMs) should be enough.

[Tiprix]

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@Tiprix wrote:

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Thanks @SD08, useful information to tone down the notifications.

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@Tiprix 

Personally, I'd recommend setting it so emails are also sent for "Posts I'm @mentioned in", because such mentions could turn out to be something interesting or important, yet is still a relatively rare occurrence.  (see third link I listed above)

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Yes, I noticed quite important that setting might be. Particularly when trying to reach someone or responding to a post

[SD08]

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@Tiprix wrote:

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Thanks @SD08, useful information to tone down the notifications.

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@Tiprix 

Personally, I'd recommend setting it so emails are also sent for "Posts I'm @mentioned in", because such mentions could turn out to be something interesting or important, yet is still a relatively rare occurrence.  (see third link I listed above)

[Tiprix]

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@SD08 wrote:

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@Tiprix wrote:

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@SD08 wrote:

Hmm...what's with winning contestants not responding?  I happen to know that
new PM community acccounts have e-mail notices for private messages turned on by default, since at least mid-2017. Have they deliberately turned off their e-mail notifications for private messages?  Well, their loss, in that case.

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As a somewhat new client of PM, you can receive quite a lot of email to the point of annoyance. As email notification is on for everything, replies to new posts, Bravo's, badges, tags, ... my phone went off constantly.  My immediate action was to disable email notifications.  So, I can understand why some people would remove notification.  Alternatively, they might not have the account link to their phone and/or seldomly check the account.

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@Tiprix 

Members can pick and choose which types of activity will result in e-mail notices, so if limiting volume is the concern, members can set it to only send notices for private messages, which should be a rare occurrence. Probably a majority of people who sign up for a community account are doing so for the purpose of obtaining assistance, which is why those e-mails are on by default. Since private messages are the preferred mode of communication with PM moderators, turning off e-mails for that could affect the timeliness of support received.

If one wishes to only get e-mails for private messages, here's how:

(Note: The following links are only accessible when logged in to community.  Remember to click "Save" after making changes on any of those pages.)

1) Make sure the box is checked ON (checkmarked) for email notices for private messages here:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-preferences:private-messe...

2) Make sure the box is checked OFF (blank) for "Don't send me any community emails" here:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/personal-profile:email

3) All other settings should be checked OFF (blank) or set to "never" here:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-subscriptions:notificatio...

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Thanks @SD08, useful information to tone down the notifications.

[SD08]

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@Tiprix wrote:

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@SD08 wrote:

Hmm...what's with winning contestants not responding?  I happen to know that
new PM community acccounts have e-mail notices for private messages turned on by default, since at least mid-2017. Have they deliberately turned off their e-mail notifications for private messages?  Well, their loss, in that case.

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As a somewhat new client of PM, you can receive quite a lot of email to the point of annoyance. As email notification is on for everything, replies to new posts, Bravo's, badges, tags, ... my phone went off constantly.  My immediate action was to disable email notifications.  So, I can understand why some people would remove notification.  Alternatively, they might not have the account link to their phone and/or seldomly check the account.

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@Tiprix 

Members can pick and choose which types of activity will result in e-mail notices, so if limiting volume is the concern, members can set it to only send notices for private messages, which should be a rare occurrence. Probably a majority of people who sign up for a community account are doing so for the purpose of obtaining assistance, which is why those e-mails are on by default. Since private messages are the preferred mode of communication with PM moderators, turning off e-mails for that could affect the timeliness of support received.

If one wishes to only get e-mails for private messages, here's how:

(Note: The following links are only accessible when logged in to community.  Remember to click "Save" after making changes on any of those pages.)

1) Make sure the box is checked ON (checkmarked) for email notices for private messages here:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-preferences:private-messe...

2) Make sure the box is checked OFF (blank) for "Don't send me any community emails" here:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/personal-profile:email

3) All other settings should be checked OFF (blank) or set to "never" here:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-subscriptions:notificatio...

[Tiprix]

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@SD08 wrote:

Hmm...what's with winning contestants not responding?  I happen to know that
new PM community acccounts have e-mail notices for private messages turned on by default, since at least mid-2017. Have they deliberately turned off their e-mail notifications for private messages?  Well, their loss, in that case.

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As a somewhat new client of PM, you can receive quite a lot of email to the point of annoyance. As email notification is on for everything, replies to new posts, Bravo's, badges, tags, ... my phone went off constantly.  My immediate action was to disable email notifications.  So, I can understand why some people would remove notification.  Alternatively, they might not have the account link to their phone and/or seldomly check the account.

[SD08]

Hmm...what's with winning contestants not responding?  I happen to know that
new PM community acccounts have e-mail notices for private messages turned on by default, since at least mid-2017. Have they deliberately turned off their e-mail notifications for private messages?  Well, their loss, in that case.

[Anonymous]

Nah! Snooze y'lose! Draw another one. 🙂

(after giving ty_89 a suitable amount of time to respond of course).

[Lieux]

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@Tiprix wrote:

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@Lieux wrote:

But it's been a while 1 week that this customer @ty_89 was online...is there another way to tag him/her to let him/her know???

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The tags might not have any impact in contacting them if they disabled the email notifications. Alternatively, the moderator could contact them directly via their email, but not sure what's the policy regarding that method.

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Yes that's what I tought ..by email or phone???

[Tiprix]

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@Lieux wrote:

But it's been a while 1 week that this customer @ty_89 was online...is there another way to tag him/her to let him/her know???

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The tags might not have any impact in contacting them if they disabled the email notifications. Alternatively, the moderator could contact them directly via their email, but not sure what's the policy regarding that method.

[Lieux]

But it's been a while 1 week that this customer @ty_89 was online...is there another way to tag him/her to let him/her know???

[RobertQc]

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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@ty_89Congrats on your $50.

[Anonymous]

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@Brooke_C wrote:

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!

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I guess markavee took a hike. He didn't seem to enjoy his short experience here. I think he was from elsewhere too.

Yay for ty_89.

[Brooke_C]

We didn't hear back from @markevee , so another Community member had the chance to win the $50 Public Mobile account credit. The member who got the lucky second chance is @ty_89. Be sure to check your Public Mobile inbox/ private messages for more details from me. Congrats!