@Pawprints1986 wrote:
@popping Phantom referrals is a thing? How? Is someone really gonna pay 15 dollars a month to get a 1 dollar discount on another account🤔
Also this has me curious, does PM use per minute or per second billing?
@Pawprints1986 The "phantom" referrals was just a glitch in PM's system, recently been fixed, that didn't always remove referral credits for customers who had either left PM or sometimes the PM system improperly counted suspended/dormant accounts that were being reactivated as new referrals. In both cases users were getting a referral credit that was in error which no longer happens. As for calling minutes, all minutes are rounded up so a call lasting 20 seconds would deduct one minute from plans with limited available minutes.
@popping Yes I agree that PM could change the current policy of toll free calls not getting deducted for whatever reason they deem, hence my caveat about it being "unofficial".
However, I don't believe this feature can be compared fairly with the "ghost referrals" credits. That was a glitch that obviously needed to be fixed, whereas deducting minutes from the two plans that have limited minutes might cause unnecessary hardship for probably the small number of users on those plans since toll free numbers are usually connected with governments or big corporations and often involve a person having to wait long periods just to connect to the right person on the other end. Customers have very little control over how long that call may last and I'm not sure if it would be worthwhile for PM to start penalizing customers for this.
Of course that's JMO and that's why I advise that users should check their accounts before and after any such calls.
