Contact Good Night + Broadband + Mobile

doubledippps on 26/08/2024 - 15:58
Last edited 26/08/2024 - 16:17

Hi all,

I'm looking into how many people have successfully claimed all the offers with Contact Energy ~$235m full year profit~.

I'm planning to sign up for the Good Night Plan at $0.2737/kWh & $2.474/day. I've noticed that the 100NEW / 100AGENT codes aren't valid for the Good Night Plan.

However, ace310 confirmed that his referral link still works, as he received a confirmation email stating he should get $100 in 30-40 days.

I'm also considering these offers:

[$74 Broadband with 300 credits](https://www.cheapies.nz/node/47586)
[$40 Mobile with $200 credits](https://www.cheapies.nz/node/47946) – This one is targeted via email, are there any success without email?

And there's a 30-day notice requirement for all of the above?

One member mentioned that getting the credit was a hassle and that they only received it on their second bill.
T&C's also have pointed out offer will be ceased to apply if you leave before 30 days.

So, would it be best to contact Contact to cancel only after I’ve received all the credits, ensuring it’s after 30 days?
I am thinking to cancel it after got the first bill but if the credits only come on second bill then it's sure not helping at all.
Then I will have to pay full price for 1st or/and 2nd month.
My current usage are 1250kwh/m (after deducted the free hours kwh), so 600 credits would last me for 1 month of power+broadband+mobile.

Has anyone successfully gone this route and claimed all the credits can you share the time frame please? Keen to know what the success rate are.

Cheers

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  • casey on 26/08/2024 - 17:26

    I've just got the mobile credit to go with the friend get friend I got recently. Just waiting on broadband credit but broadband only just connected today.

    The only issue is signing up to one service, waiting for that then signing up to the next and so on to get all credits.

  • ace310 on 26/08/2024 - 17:38

    I have claimed mobile credits twice. 2 referrals in last 2 months. Just signed up for broadband last week using $300 offer. Hopefully I get that credit.

    FYI : I just opted out of CGNAT as well.

    I never activated my mobile sim after receiving. So didn't really needed to cancel it.

    • Alan6984 on 26/08/2024 - 22:19

      FYI : I just opted out of CGNAT as well.

      Hi Ace,

      Any additional charge for getting a fully publicly routable IP, or did you only have to ask?

      Thanks,

      Alan.

      • ace310 on 26/08/2024 - 22:48

        No extra charge. I didn't ask for static ip if that's what you are asking. Port 80/443 are still blocked, so will contact again to see if I can get it working.

        • Alan6984 on 27/08/2024 - 15:23

          No extra charge. I didn't ask for static ip if that's what you are asking. Port 80/443 are still blocked, so will contact again to see if I can get it working.

          Static would be another thing (but potentially useful too if you don't want to use a Dynamic DNS solution).

          They might just block all incoming connections to 80 / 443 by default (regardless of whether you have a publicly route-able and / or static IP), as a 'defensive measure', just in case the user opens them on their router (or something nasty does it for them I guess!)

          I have also seen some ISPs block outgoing connections to Port 25 for the same reasons.

          • ace310 on 27/08/2024 - 15:26

            @Alan6984: Got everything working now. They had to make one more change along with opting out of CGNAT.

            I have my vpn server working fine with DDNS, reverse proxy, plex port forwarding and Cloudflare tunnel all working as expected. Everything is same as it was with Slingshot.

            I intend to close port 443 on my network soon as moving everything to cloudflare tunnel with google auth.

            • Alan6984 on 27/08/2024 - 15:29

              @ace310:

              Got everything working now. They had to make one more change along with opting out of CGNAT.

              I have my vpn server working fine with DDNS, reverse proxy, plex port forwarding and Cloudflare tunnel all working as expected. Everything is same as it was with Slingshot.

              Cool :-)

              I've not bothered with a fixed IP at home for a while now. I just use DDNS as well.

            • dolsen on 05/09/2024 - 10:28

              @ace310: @ace310 What was the process you went though to get a public ip address, allow incoming 80/443 ports? Did you ring and ask for this, or, did you send an email / facebook request? I had previously discounted contact due to cgnat but if I can get a public ip that allows incoming connections I would probably join them.

              • ace310 on 05/09/2024 - 10:46

                @dolsen: Just called there tech support helpline. Said I want to opt out of CGNAT, so that I can do port forwarding. Especially I want to have dynamic dns service to work.

                There was something else they had to configure other than CGNAT, I don't remember what it's called. But the guy had good knowledge on what to do and was very helpful.

                Do remember the changes take sometime. And had to switch off the router for atleast 15 mins.

  • dealhunter on 26/08/2024 - 20:48

    I've previously got sign up offers and referrals credit, but I recently twice signed up for mobile but didn't get either credit, don't know why. Received both sim cards but never activated.

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