Please note due to changes implemented by Public Mobile on July 13th 2022 the availability of pm vouchers have changed and not all info contained in this thread may be accurate in regards to retailers that sell pm vouchers. I would appreciate member feedback if you find other retailers or locations that no longer sell pm vouchers. thx darlicious
Edit:
**Update August 7th 2022: Call ahead to your local RCSS or TMS location as it has been reported in Vancouver that my local RCSS/TMS (Grandview) no longer sells pm vouchers.😞
Wal-Mart locations may also be affected in addition to RCSS and TMS.
I've been thinking about this for a little while to help public mobile customers load their vouchers. Please feel free to load your no longer valid vouchers and the appropriate 12 digit number to use when loading it onto your account. I'll start with Canadian tire: up to 24 hrs to become valid but usually by the end of that locations business day....use the redemption #.
I noticed my autopay kicked in for the last couple months, so I decided to seek out some vouchers. Best I could think of is any grocery store (I shop often at RCSS), especially if you have a credit card that provides a decent cashback for groceries (e.g. 5% CB with BMO CB WE MC). Downside is that you can only get these at Customer Service, and the one I went to only had $20 or $40 denominations (I wanted $100, so I got the rep to scan 2x$40 + 1x$20). Here's the printout; I was able to load these immediately.
Should last me quite a while. Last $100 load lasted me over a year (with autopay, loyalty, and referrals, my monthly bill was around $6-7)!
Dear friends and colleagues,
Here's an addition to this wonderful voucher catalogue. You can actually buy vouchers through Crypto.com:
You can now recharge your mobile airtime via Crypto.com Pay via our new feature - Pay Airtime! Top up your prepaid phone with crypto, and earn up to 5% cashback!
See: https://blog.crypto.com/introducing-pay-airtime/
I was curious and asked elsewhere on the community how this worked but nobody knew so... I willingly sacrificed for the experiment! Here are the results:
Post-purchase:
Clicking on the "i How to Redeem?" button leads to this screen:
Pre-voucher:
Post-voucher:
That being said, the spread on this transaction was 16.8%, meaning it costs me 30$ worth of CRO rather than 25$. Very uneconomical lol, but I had to try it (for science!).
Here's a few other answers to commonly asked questions:
- The crypto (CRO) was debited immediately from my Crypto.com account and the voucher was also immediately redeemable.
- It couldn't be any cryptocurrency, it had to be crypto.com's own coin, CRO.
- As mentioned earlier, the purchase price was calculated at market value but there was a super high spread (i.e., a hidden fee) of almost 17%! So I think that even if you get 5% back in CRO, it's really not worth it, unless you're really out of options!
Hi @darlicious
Here is another voucher sample for your catalog.
It's from a 7-11 store. It worked right away.
Interesting fact: This 7-11 only charged GST when I bought the voucher for Public Mobile, but they charged both GST and PST when I bought a voucher for their own SpeakOut service.
Here is another payment voucher bought from a different SHELL gas station today. The clerk was a trainee and it took him 5 minutes to find the Public Mobile codes.
I entered the voucher PIN at home through the PM self-service webpage 3 hours later. No problems.
