03-06-2024 11:07 AM - last edited on 03-09-2024 12:32 PM by ShawnC13
Hey Community,
We have an important announcement to share with our subscribers who are currently enrolled in our old Rewards program.
We’re making changes to our rewards program and are sharing how these changes impact some of our subscribers. Starting in May, we’ll be retiring our old Rewards program and moving all subscribers to our Public Points™ program.
We launched the Public Points™ program in January 2022 to provide our subscribers with more ways to earn and spend rewards, with greater flexibility. As part of our commitment to continuously evolve our products and services, it's time to retire our old Rewards program and shift our focus on enhancing our Points program.
To show our appreciation for your continued loyalty, subscribers on our old Rewards program will receive a special thank you. We'll send you a text message when it has been added to your account by March 31st.
We’re excited to continue providing you, our valued subscribers, more opportunities to earn and spend rewards with Public Points™ moving forward.
To learn more about your move to Public Points, check out our FAQ here.
The Public Mobile Team
04-20-2024 09:17 PM
Another line moved.. Couple more to go.. Thank you PM again. You'll lose now 35$ per line that I moved..
04-20-2024 08:37 PM
In the text message you didn't say that if I switch to a lower value plan, my bonus data will be removed, now they are gone, I thought I could make this as compensation ,as everyone know when switch to points reward, the rewards funds are lower, that is why old reward program holder likes to opt out.
04-20-2024 06:00 PM
Well that's it! My last managed account is ported. So two old referrals remain until I convert them as well..
Goodbye beautiful community!
04-20-2024 05:52 PM - edited 04-20-2024 06:23 PM
@ShawnC13 Good to know and should be reassuring for everybody. As community rewards result in a monetary benefit for recipients, it would be essential for PM to have internal controls in place to maintain integrity.
@Luddite At one time I was an internal auditor and we had a variation of that saying too: “In God we trust, all others we audit”
04-20-2024 05:36 PM
04-20-2024 05:13 PM
🤣🤣
04-20-2024 04:59 PM
04-20-2024 04:33 PM
@Wolfcore AFAIA, Oracles do try to keep a watch for some of these things but I don't believe they're required to do so under their oracle duties and I can imagine it becomes really difficult to police if one or more person keep creating new usernames to game or spam here.
04-20-2024 04:32 PM
Yes @dabr , I understand what you’re writing.
I didn’t intend my initial response to you (where you pointed out that Athens responded to me to something I responded to eyes about) to be taken otherwise.
04-20-2024 04:24 PM - edited 04-20-2024 04:26 PM
@HALIMACS Like I said earlier, I don't have a problem with someone having more than one community username and even posting separately as long as they're not pretending otherwise. However, I can see it being a problem when someone is making repetitive (same/similar) posts under their other usernames for obvious reasons.
04-20-2024 04:17 PM
Wait a minute, weren't you the dude who claimed to have done a scientific study on Freedom's network being terrible, and then when asked to present your evidence, you wouldn't do it, but instead asked other users to pay you for it? I guess that wasn't factual either then 🤣
But yeah, I still see that you seem to have trouble grasping the concept of an estimation for some reason. It's actually not that difficult, believe it or not.
04-20-2024 04:14 PM
This whole place is based on anonymity @dabr
Who cares how many different users are posting as one individual so long as the message is clear, promotes respectful discussion, and there is no gaming occurring for the benefit of one individual.
What perhaps happens is one user creates multiple accounts for other family members, and they create separate community IDs for each respective account.
04-20-2024 04:06 PM
HI @Luddite
the post also said "If I were to state something as fact, I'd provide evidence."
so, no evidence provided, so it is not a fact. But it said out loudly early that "thousands posts" were removed. So, that was simply a lie. Or a bias against particular group on Community?
04-20-2024 04:04 PM
@ShawnC13 should definitely urge mods to investigate this. I can't see how this could possibly be within the rules if true. I can think of a dozen reasons as to why this is a problem, and if it's not against the rules, it definitely should be. A person could literally create a thread on one account, and use the other account to offer the solution immediately, thus rewarding them. They could also constantly use both accounts to Bravo each other, and cheat the system. This would not only cost the company money, but would also cheat other users out of possible rewards.
Not to mention other things, like using both accounts to manipulate topics, and harass other users, etc. If this practice is allowed, a person could just create an entire farming network using all of their referral's accounts, and just get free money every month for all of them, by piggybacking off of each other. Such an easy system to abuse, and should be shut down. Also very easy to track down, assuming a person is dumb enough to not mask their ip.
04-20-2024 04:02 PM
"It's definitely far more than 100-200 though, that estimate isn't even close. There were some nights a few weeks ago where we'd have 50+ messages deleted almost every night (other members have noticed this as well)"
Well now, on the subject of opinion vs fact, the saying I like is: "in god we trust, all others must bring verifiable data". Otherwise we might as all don specialized communication gear to pick up full story.
04-20-2024 03:50 PM
@ATHENS wrote:CS agent may have given me wrong information but I think one should proceed with caution and confirm with CS before changing plans- Cut and pasting CS reply to my question of switching plans >>>>>>>>>If you change your plan, regardless if it upgrade (higher value) or downgrade (lower value) you will lose the bonus data acorded for the switch to Public Points program.
HI @ATHENS
confusing. FAQ clearly said downgrade only
04-20-2024 03:49 PM
04-20-2024 03:23 PM - edited 04-20-2024 03:24 PM
@HALIMACS I don't have a problem with someone having more than one community username (for another account) and posting as long it's clear and they're open about it, however, it was just confusing to see eyes responding to a post addressed to athens as in a first person response.
04-20-2024 03:14 PM
@dabr wrote:
33m ago
"That's interesting @ATHENS , but a cop out in my opinion.
Perhaps they've gotten a number of users downgrading, losing out data bonus's, then maybe pleading to reinstate their higher value plan in an attempt to recapture the 'lost' data bonus.
Maybe they've gotten tired of dealing with the requests so they've decided to make a blanket policy that any changes will result in a loss of bonus data.
Poor execution on their part, regretfully."
15m ago
"I’m just saying to take caution before switching plans. It wouldn’t hurt to just ask and confirm before regretting losing data."
Hmm...I thought HALIMACS was responding to ATHENS but you replied on his behalf?
I don't mind @dabr
Whether one in the same user with a different community login, or simply another user weighing in, this place should welcome folks offering diverse views on discussions amongst all members.
It's a Community, after all. 🙂
04-20-2024 03:10 PM - edited 04-21-2024 03:30 PM
33m ago
"That's interesting @ATHENS , but a cop out in my opinion.
Perhaps they've gotten a number of users downgrading, losing out data bonus's, then maybe pleading to reinstate their higher value plan in an attempt to recapture the 'lost' data bonus.
Maybe they've gotten tired of dealing with the requests so they've decided to make a blanket policy that any changes will result in a loss of bonus data.
Poor execution on their part, regretfully."
15m ago
"I’m just saying to take caution before switching plans. It wouldn’t hurt to just ask and confirm before regretting losing data."
Hmm...I thought HALIMACS was responding to ATHENS but you replied on his behalf?
edit: however, a good idea to check beforehand with CSA's although it's not always the case that they have the correct information to relay.
04-20-2024 02:48 PM
I’m just saying to take caution before switching plans. It wouldn’t hurt to just ask and confirm before regretting losing data.
04-20-2024 02:30 PM
That's interesting @ATHENS , but a cop out in my opinion.
Perhaps they've gotten a number of users downgrading, losing out data bonus's, then maybe pleading to reinstate their higher value plan in an attempt to recapture the 'lost' data bonus.
Maybe they've gotten tired of dealing with the requests so they've decided to make a blanket policy that any changes will result in a loss of bonus data.
Poor execution on their part, regretfully.
04-20-2024 02:30 PM
Public mobile could give you 1000 gb of data. If it expires before you can use it does it matter? It was all just a publicity stunt. "Look at us giving all these customers these unusable big data bonuses while we're sticking it to them $ wise". FOAD
04-20-2024 01:07 PM
And that’s where it’s completely unfair, @joe77
I don’t necessarily agree one should retain the 240 GB, however, it should be no less than 5 GB on the change such as yours.
04-20-2024 12:51 PM - edited 04-20-2024 12:53 PM
In my case, my wife and I both had the $34 40gb plan. She downgraded to the $29 plan and kept all of her 240gb bonus data. As for mine, I downgraded to the $15 plan and lost all of it... not even the 5gb that those plans had initially received.
04-20-2024 12:04 PM
hi @Camera4617 generally speaking downgrade plan would loss the bonus add-on. Some might got away somehow but it is YMMV, could be system glitch but they would have fixed that any time
04-20-2024 11:53 AM
Between the switch to the points program, replacing 1 point for every month with PM to generally useless bonus data with an expiry date, and now a measly offer of 15 points for winback, I can only think of one useful purpose these recent decisions by PM serve. Canadian universities can now update their marketing courses curriculum with a case study on what NOT to do.
04-20-2024 11:43 AM
Does it mean if I downgrade from 34$ to 29$ I will keep that bonus? Not sure if that's mentioned somewhere in the posts.
04-20-2024 11:40 AM
That certainly sounds about right @RetiredGuy1
I wonder if anyone on 40/50/60/$75 plan downgraded to the $29+ plan if they retained the same bonus?
Anyone?
04-20-2024 11:19 AM
Its still hard to believe that a company basically loved by its loyal customers did such a 180 that has turned itself into a laughing stock. Everyone is laughing over at RFD too. Did some management that takes care of Loyalty and offers change? Even if PM doesnt bring back old rewards to save face they should still at least fire whoever is responsible for this debacle.