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Got SIM & voucher to set up new phone then was forced to use credit card for initial setup. $ Gone!

jameswcousineau
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

After the initial setup could not be done with the voucher purchased, I used a credit card to do so. After everything was active and working, I entered the voucher number to have credit for March 2023 plan renewal. It showed in account but has now disappeared and have to pay March 03, 2023 renewal while the $40 credit has just evaporated. It seems a lot of people have issues with Public (operated by Telus) when it comes to funds disappearing and overbilling? How can you deal with this if the damned company does not take calls etc?

 

 

 

edited by computergeek541:  bypassing of profanity filter is against terms of service

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carlaspapa
Town Hero / Héro de la Ville

@jameswcousineau 

I always use 611 to add my payment vouchers. I also use it to check my account balance.

 

 

treefrog
Town Hero / Héro de la Ville

@jameswcousineau 

Try calling 611 and see what it says your balance is? If it says $0 try adding your voucher again and it will tell you if the voucher has been used already or it will add it to your account.

Community_QA
Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle

@jameswcousineau  if you check around different communities for different mobile brands, you will see complains about overcharge and overbilling everywhere

it is not a Telus only problem.  but many times, it is customers not knowing and got mixed up and fingerpointed to carriers

hTideGnow
Mayor / Maire

Hi @jameswcousineau   , 

 

were you using My Account to check?  Maybe  it is a cache problem

Please login My Acocunt again using Incognito/Private/Secret mode and you might see it in Available Fund. 

 

HALIMACS
Mayor / Maire

Actually, @jameswcousineau , one CAN activate using a payment voucher, it's just more time-consuming and requires input from the Customer Support Agents.

 

If the payment voucher amount is NOT DISPLAYING under your Available Funds yet you are certain it was there shortly after the activation when adding it, I'm wondering if Public Mobile snagged from it instead of the credit card payment you made.   It's possible the credit card payment (which may be showing as a 'pending' charge now) might not settle and perhaps they took the payment from the payment voucher amount showing on the account.  

 

If this is not the case, try tapping the little refresher icons in self-serve to see if you can then view the voucher amount displaying in your Available Funds.

 

If you're certain both the credit card was charged and the voucher amount which was once displaying is now gone, then definitely go-forward with contacting the Customer Support Agents and provide them with the voucher details and a brief explanation and surely they'll apply the face-value of the voucher to your account.

 

Please let us know how it ends up.

 

 

softech
Oracle
Oracle

@jameswcousineau check My Account, go to Payment history and check if PM recorded it took the voucher and if it was used 

 

Any issue, please open ticket with PM support

 

1. Please open ticket via Chatbot (need access to My Account): At https://publicmobile.ca/chatbot.

Start by typing "Submit a ticket", then click "Contact Us", Then click "Other", then click "Click here to submit a ticket ↗" 

2. If you have trouble with Chatbot or you don't have access to My Account: Private message CS Agent at: 

    https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/notes/composepage/note-to-user-id/22437


**Monitor your Community inbox (envelope icon on the top right) after the ticket is opened.  CS Agent will reply to you there

 

 

 

esjliv
Mayor / Maire

@jameswcousineau - it is true, you are not able to currently activate a SIM card using a voucher. But since you have the account now created with the credit card, you should be able to add the voucher amount to your account for future renewals.

 

What does it say in your payment history? If you once saw it there, do you see it listed anywhere here: 

https://selfserve.publicmobile.ca/en/account/payment/payment-history

 

softech
Oracle
Oracle

@jameswcousineau 

 

I don't believe many people have that problem.  

 

Most people have problem with Pre-authorized payments failing, so PM didn't take the money

 

you can always open to ticket with PM if there is problem 

 

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