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Public Mobile: Second 30 days Free (New customers) July 31- August 3, 2020

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Public Mobile: Second 30 days Free (New customers) July 31- August 3, 2020

Expiry:
August 3, 2020
Retailer:
Public Mobile
Public Mobile
July 31-August 3, 2020

Second 30 days is free for new account activations, any plan (online and in-store)

Credit equivalent to the price of the activated plan will be applied to the account balance within 30 days.


Official terms from publicmobile.ca:
"Effective July 31 2020 until August 3 2020 at 11:59PM ET. Offer available to new customers who activate online and in-store. Offer is not stackable with other promotions.
The one-time credit amount will be equal to the plan activated on and will be automatically applied to eligible rate plans.
Please note the discount will be applied within 30 days of activation. This offer is subject to change without notice."
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Thread Summary
Official annoucement; https://productioncommunity.publicmobil ... m-p/574151

"FLASH SALE: Get your second month FREE when you activate
Hey Community,



Effective immediately until August 3rd at 11:59PM ET, we are offering your second month free when you activate on any plan online or in-store! This will be applied as an account credit and the offer is available to new customers only.



How to Get this Offer:

Click here to order a SIM card online through Public Mobile (shipping time is 3 to 7 business days) or order through Amazon and choose your shipping speed. Alternatively, you can purchase a SIM card by locating a retailer near you
Activate in-store or visit activate.publicmobile.ca to activate at home on any plan by August 3, 2020 11:59PM ET
Eligible customers will be provided the account credit within 30 business days.
The credit value that you will receive will be equal to the price of the rate plan on which you activated your SIM card. This credit will cover the rate plan cost only. It will not cover additional costs such as Add-Ons.
Eligible customers will be credited the 30-day rate plan amount within 30 business days. These credits will count towards your next plan renewal.
You will not need to top-up your account at your first renewal date, unless you purchase Add-Ons, change or future-date your plan to a more expensive plan during the first 30 days. Note that, if you have registered for AutoPay, you will continue to receive your $2 AutoPay reward every 30 days. All Reward rules, which can be found at publicmobile.ca/rewardrules, apply.
This offer is not stackable with other in-market promotions"
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You need to purchase SIM card in store for this promotion. Online purchase of SIM cards will be too late since it takes about at least one week to arrive. Walmart, Mobile shop (inside superstore), London drugs, WOW mobile and some authorized Koodo dealers will be able to sell SIM card and activate for you. You could purchase SIM card in store and bring home to activate, but some vendors are hesitant to sell SIM card alone without activation.
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Dunkster wrote: You need to purchase SIM card in store for this promotion. Online purchase of SIM cards will be too late since it takes about at least one week to arrive. Walmart, Mobile shop (inside superstore), London drugs, WOW mobile and some authorized Koodo dealers will be able to sell SIM card and activate for you. You could purchase SIM card in store and bring home to activate, but some vendors are hesitant to sell SIM card alone without activation.
This offer is available for accounts activated in-store too, so if you're already there, it wouldn't be as big of deal to get them to do it compared to if this were an online-only special.
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You pay full price for your plan during activation. You will get a credit of your plan cost within 30 days before your first renewal.

Rewards
1. If you enable autopay with your credit or debit card, your will get $2 autopay credit in your account right away for your first billing cycle. Then, from every renewal, you will get $2 credit for every renewal.
2. If you activate you account with a referral, you will get $10 credit in your account within 72 hours after activation.

For an example, it you activate the $15 plan with 100 outgoing minutes + unlimited incoming minutes + unlimited international text + 250MB data:
Pay $15 for the first billing cycle.
$2 autopay credit for the first billing cycle
$10 referral credit
$15 credit for second month. More credit if you activate a higher value plan

Before your first renewal day, you will have $27 available fund in your account.
On the renewal day, PM will add another $2 autopay credit to your account first before taking $15 from your account.
$27 available fund + $2 autopay - $15 plan cost = $14 available fund after the first renewal.
$14 available fund + $2 autopay - $15 plan cost = $1 available fund after the second renewal.

Please note that PM plans are not billed monthly. PM billing cycle is billed every 30 days.
Have too many phones... This is how I limit my monthly phone payment.
Public Mobile $34 15GB, $11 250MB, 2x $5 50min/50text, $0 FPL home phone,
Fido $5 4GB plan with a free tablet.
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computergeek541 wrote: This offer is available for accounts activated in-store too, to if you're already there, it wouldn't be as big of deal to get them to do it compared to if this were an online-only special.
Sim is currently free when activated in store, as well
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NavieM wrote: Sim is currently free when activated in store, as well
I do not believe this to be an official Pubic Mobile promotion, but rather the retailer using it as a tool to secure the activation/commission.
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This is great timing, I was going to sign up for PM any day now.

How do referrals work if activating in-store? Will they do that for you?
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NavieM wrote: Sim is currently free when activated in store, as well
Any retailer or just certain ones?
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theredbaron wrote: Any retailer or just certain ones?

Walmart for sure. The rest I have no idea
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theredbaron wrote: This is great timing, I was going to sign up for PM any day now.

How do referrals work if activating in-store? Will they do that for you?
theredbaron wrote: Any retailer or just certain ones?
Vendor enters the Referral code on activation.

Walmart is known to offer free SIM cards when you activate in store. YMMV though. Not official promotion.
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theredbaron wrote: Any retailer or just certain ones?
When it comes a possible free sim card with activaiton, this is almost always YMMV. If it isn't advertised, the salesperson can just say no.
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If you are living in Quebec, you can activate the Quebec only $30 Plan. You must activate with a Quebec phone number in order to get the $30. It will cost $35 if you have a non-Quebec phone number.
https://www.publicmobile.ca/en/qc/plans ... GB-3Gspeed
$5 off the $35 plan for Quebec phone number only
500MB online data bonus(note 1),+1GB Data at 3G speed+BONUS 500MB with AutoPay = 2GB data
Unlimited Talk Canada-wide & Intl text

Note 1: The 500MB online bonus data is for online activation only using this link: https://activate.publicmobile.ca
Have too many phones... This is how I limit my monthly phone payment.
Public Mobile $34 15GB, $11 250MB, 2x $5 50min/50text, $0 FPL home phone,
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Other than maybe saving the $10 for the SIM card there is zero benefit to activating in store. There is no magic or special portal that they use and it is in fact exactly the same as if you did it at home. Also if you have any referrals when you set up you really have to trust the person doing it to actually add the code to your account and not their own (been more than a few threads on the Public forums about this sort of thing.

For those that do go through with the in store activation, do yourself a favour and log in to the self-serve portal and at least change the password you gave the agent when they set up the account. Also make damn good and sure that if you gave them a referral code that it is actually on YOUR account before leaving the store.
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stormy13 wrote: Other than maybe saving the $10 for the SIM card there is zero benefit to activating in store. There is no magic or special portal that they use and it is in fact exactly the same as if you did it at home. Also if you have any referrals when you set up you really have to trust the person doing it to actually add the code to your account and not their own (been more than a few threads on the Public forums about this sort of thing.

For those that do go through with the in store activation, do yourself a favour and log in to the self-serve portal and at least change the password you gave the agent when they set up the account. Also make damn good and sure that if you gave them a referral code that it is actually on YOUR account before leaving the store.
The portal at the store isn't exactly the same. If you activate in-store, the Public Mobile self serve account does not need to get created there. That can be done later at home. The account PIN is also randomly generated and the sales person won't know it. It's sent to the customer in a text message.

For online activations, the customer must choose an account PIN and set up a self serve account during the activation process.
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I activated mine in Walmart (Rexdale store) about 6 months ago, got the SIM for free, and the person entered the referral code I gave just fine (and I did get the referral benefits).
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Damn, ordered my sim on Amazon on the 26th, but not scheduled to arrive until August 4th. Oh well, upvote for deal.
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BaconBit007 wrote: Damn, ordered my sim on Amazon on the 26th, but not scheduled to arrive until August 4th. Oh well, upvote for deal.
These flash promotions do happen frequently, but less than before Covid. You can wait for the next one.

Another option is to activate in store (ie. Walmart) and hopefully, get a free SIM card. Use the Amazon purchased SIM for a future friend referral.
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BaconBit007 wrote: Damn, ordered my sim on Amazon on the 26th, but not scheduled to arrive until August 4th. Oh well, upvote for deal.
Did you order directly from Amazon or a thrid party seller? If it's a third party seller, ask that seller if they recorded the sim card number. If they did and can provide you would the sim card number, you could activate it before it arrives, although you obviously would lose any days from the time you activate and the time the sim card arrives.
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BaconBit007 wrote: Damn, ordered my sim on Amazon on the 26th, but not scheduled to arrive until August 4th. Oh well, upvote for deal.
Ya... Just keep the Amazon sim for future use. Sign up for this deal at wally world or anywhere else that can sell and activate a sim on the spot.
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Does anyone know if Koodo iPhone xr will work with public and freedom mobile?
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