@Cheetah24 wrote:
@Lean_3: I believe what you are referring to as the point system is the legacy rewards system? If you joined recently you are automatically enrolled in the new rewards system. And you can't change it to the legacy system. Some people will argue that the legacy points system is better. I have no idea as I haven't used the new rewards system myself. 🙂
This confusion is because Public Mobile called the old system "Rewards" and often refers to the new Public Points™ system as "rewards" as well. Largely because so many of their busy but lazy information, FAQ, help, and instruction pages still have unchanged, half-obsolete text they wrote many years ago.
"Legacy" or "Legacy Rewards" is not an official term used by Public Mobile. It's meant to reference the old and discontinued (but not obsolete) Rewards some of us still collect. All new accounts created since early 2022 get Public Points™ rewards whether they want to or not, they have no choice. Accounts which already existed before then had legacy Rewards and were intermittently bombarded with bribe offers to switch them off the old Rewards system onto the new rewards system. Public Mobile makes it easy. And they try to sell the idea that Points are better than Rewards, just click that convenient (one-way) button to (irreversibly) try it out for yourself!
Public Mobile never actually forced any of us to move from Rewards to Points and never actually broke any promises or made specifically false statements - but they definitely used cheap, low, dirty tricks and deceptions and misinformation and ambiguities and implied intimidations to encourage as many subscribers as they could to click that button which permanently migrated them away from legacy Rewards. Even now we sometimes see people ask if Rewards-to-Points is a good move or we sometimes see people who already made the move request/demand/beg to have their decision/mistake reversed.
