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$250 Woolworths E-Gift Card When You Sign up to Experience 50 (nbn or Fibre) or Higher @ Origin Energy Internet

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$250 Woolworths E-Gift Card When You Sign up to Experience 50 (nbn or Fibre) or Higher @ Origin Energy Internet
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Lmanyways on 26/11/2021 - 09:20 originenergy.com.au (2362 clicks)
Last edited 26/11/2021 - 09:36 by 1 other user

$250 Woolworths E-Gift card when you sign up to Origin Energy Internet.

They are white label Aussie Broadband so you get the network and support from ABB.

T&Cs;

  1. The Black Friday internet offer is available to new Origin internet residential customers who sign up online to an “Experience 50” (nbn™ or fibre) plan or higher (an Eligible Plan) between 9am EST on 26 November 2021 and 11:59pm EST on 28 November 2021 (Offer Period).

  2. If you sign up to an Eligible Plan during the Offer Period, and you remain on an Eligible Plan for a period of at least 45 days, you will receive a $250 (incl. GST) Woolworths Supermarket eGift Card.

  3. You will receive an email confirming your eligibility for the offer between 29 November and 1 December 2021. You will receive a second email with your Woolworths Supermarket eGift Card code approximately 45 days from the date of sign-up as long as your Origin internet account is still active, and not in arrears, at that time.

  4. Only one Woolworths Supermarket eGift Card is available per customer.

Referral Links

Origin: random (438)

$50 credit each for referrer and referee.

Origin Spike: random (133)

Referrer and referee get $10 of Spike Points

This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2021
Internet Black Friday Broadband Gift Card nbn

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    • rocket-tear on 28/11/2021 - 18:03

      I chose 2021-12-09 and I've received an email saying

      You’ve asked for a “don’t connect before” date of 2021-12-09 – once this date arrives, your order will progress.

      Sounds like the churn will be done on 2021-12-09.

      • kulprit on 28/11/2021 - 18:55

        Thanks. I did end up putting a day earlier so might have lost a day. All good. Cheers for replying.

  • CaptainLeezee on 28/11/2021 - 17:27

    I have been having the "something went wrong" message too. Funnily enough I can get my neighbours addresses to work but there is some issue with my address :(

    I'll try ringing tomorrow I guess.

  • beyondtool on 28/11/2021 - 21:15

    Crud " Oh no something went wrong". Well, guess they don't want my business….

    • jmargin on 29/11/2021 - 09:49

      How far through did you get before you got this?

  • Reveen on 30/11/2021 - 12:00
    +1

    Signed up on Friday, received the following e-mail confirmation a moment ago:

    Confirming your Origin Black Friday offer Reveen

    Your Black Friday internet plan eGift Card

    Great news Reveen,

    We're writing to confirm your Woolworths Supermarket eGift Card for signing up to Origin internet. You don't need to do anything further.

    You'll receive your $250 Woolworths Supermarket eGift Card via email in approximately 45 days, as long as you remain on an eligible plan until then.

    You can review the full Terms and Conditions of this promotion at the bottom of this email.

    Best wishes,
    Origin

    • dwhes on 30/11/2021 - 12:29

      Yep just got the same email. Nice.

  • jpp42 on 01/12/2021 - 11:09

    Dang, I came here to look up any thoughts about this deal and only just saw it's expired! Wondering if churning ISPs is going to be a "thing" like credit card churning…

  • Kas on 01/12/2021 - 11:59

    I put 1st Dec as activate date, now it is already connected… was with ABB, no issue with transfer or router configuration… noting to do.
    Also received a email from ABB, "We're sorry you're leaving", that means I don't have to contact ABB.
    Really good deal… Thanks again OP…

  • Elmer Fudd on 01/12/2021 - 12:58

    If it helps anyone, I moved to Origin Broadband today and had no issues with cutover.

    I did discover however that Origin use CGNAT and according to tech support, there is no option to opt out of it and no option to have a static IP address assigned. This is causing me issues connecting externally to my home assistant.

    Has anyone had success getting around this?

    • kulprit on 01/12/2021 - 13:35

      Good to know. This is via VPN and a dynamic DNS?

      • Elmer Fudd on 01/12/2021 - 13:41

        In my case, no vpn, just port forwarding and using duckdns to resolve external IP address .

    • CaptainLeezee on 01/12/2021 - 22:47

      I never did manage to sign up unfortunately. But I do have HA and would have run into the same issue.

      I would look at either:
      use IPV6 if origin provides this?
      Rent a really cheap server from digitalocean or find something on lowendbox and set up a VPN or reverse tunnel to connect through
      pay for nabu casa

      or just churn away in a couple of months and forego remote access for a while.

      I think IPV6 would be kinda easy to set up and free, VPS quite difficult and not free, nabu casa easy not free, wait two months easy free.

      Good luck! I love saving a buck but honestly the service I get from Launtel is so good it's hard to justify leaving..

      • Elmer Fudd on 02/12/2021 - 05:39

        Thanks for these options.
        I think I'll just churn away in 45 days and put up with it in the meantime. I am looking at ngrok as a solution, but need to research that a little more.

        • CoronavirusVaccine on 08/12/2021 - 17:41

          Get the freetier on Oracle Cloud, comes with public IP - put Ubuntu on it and install wireguard. Then set up a wireguard from your LAN to establish a tunnel by calling into the public IP. Configure the server side to forward port 80/443 to your LAN client and DSTNAT from there.

          Go with the ARM cores as they have more RAM and more bandwidth than AMD version. Gross overkill as a bouncing point for HA but you might find other use for it once you start using it.

          • ValuexHunter on 10/12/2021 - 03:38

            @CoronavirusVaccine: Is there a guide? I followed one but kept getting errors.

            • CoronavirusVaccine on 10/12/2021 - 15:25
              +1

              @ValuexHunter: At a high level the few things that need to be done are:
              (1) On the cloud instance open the port (UDP protocol) for the incoming wireguard connection. Also ensure the port 80/443 TCP can also get through.
              (2) On the cloud instance set up the wireguard to listen to incoming connection. Enable IP forwarding.
              (3) On the LAN side set up a wireguard to connect to the cloud instance. Enable IP forwarding.
              (4) verify the the two wireguard instance can ping each other with the wireguard IP.
              (5) On the cloud instance set wireguard rules to forward the incoming connections to the wireguard on the LAN side. Something like below. Replace ens1 with your network interface, and 10.0.0.2 is the wireguard LAN side's wireguard IP.

              PostUp = iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i ens1 '!' —dport 22 -j DNAT —to-destination 10.0.0.2; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wg0 -j MASQUERADE
              PostDown = iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -p tcp -i ens1 '!' —dport 22 -j DNAT —to-destination 10.0.0.2; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o wg0 -j MASQUERADE

              (6) On the LAN side set wireguard rules to forward the incoming traffic to the your Home Assistant. Something like below. Replace 192.168.100.100 with your Home Assistant LAN IP, and port 80/443 depending on your HA connection protocol. Replace eth0 with the actual network interface.

              PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i wg0 -j ACCEPT
              PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i wg0 -j ACCEPT

              PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -o wg0 -j ACCEPT
              PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -o wg0 -j ACCEPT

              PostUp = iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp —dport 443 -j DNAT —to-destination 192.168.100.100:8123; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp —dport 443 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
              PostDown = iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -p tcp —dport 443 -j DNAT —to-destination 192.168.100.100:8123; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -p tcp —dport 443 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

              PostUp = iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp —dport 80 -j DNAT —to-destination 192.168.100.100; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp —dport 80 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
              PostDown = iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -p tcp —dport 80 -j DNAT —to-destination 192.168.100.100; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -p tcp —dport 80 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

              There are plenty of tutorials on the internet for Step 1-4 for wireguard set up. So you should be able to find them easily.

              IMPORTANT Since this is exposing some ports to the public, all the security precautions should be implemnted on the cloud instance. Locking down SSH, fail2ban, unattended updates etc. Also MFA should be enabled on the Home Assistant for good measure. Should also avoid HTTP (port 80) and use HTTPS (port 443) with a SSL cert to ensure your traffic is encrypted while traversing through the internet.
              [https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2017/09/27/effortless-encryption-with-lets-encrypt-and-duckdns/]
              [https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2015/12/13/setup-encryption-using-lets-encrypt/]

              If you need help try to give more details on what you've tried - people can't help you if you just say you are having errors without describing what you've done and what the errors are. These things require some learning and trial-and-error if you are doing it for the first time so give yourself some time.

    • [Deactivated] on 02/12/2021 - 21:54

      That's really bad news if true, ABB also puts you on CGNAT by default but can disable it for free if you ask them in app when you go with them directly.

      • Elmer Fudd on 03/12/2021 - 08:46

        I did put to the Origin Broadband support person that there was an option to opt out for the equivalent abb service, but was advised that that option didn't extend to the Origin service.

        IP V6 is supported on Origin Broadband so that is an option I suppose, however my mobile service provider (Optus) doesn't provide IP V6, so I couldn't connect from my mobile phone back to my home network in any case. I think Telstra mobile offer IP V6, so could probably get that to work.

        Anyway, all getting to hard to save a dollar, so will churn away, after I get my $250 gift card.

  • dwhes on 29/12/2021 - 10:02

    Anyone else schedule a port to origin when this deal came up and now it’s just sitting in limbo? I scheduled it for 23/12 as that was when my current Aussie broadband deal ended. So far no switch to origin. Called them and they said it’s sitting with nbn co and nothing they can do. I’ve never had a port take longer than an hour or two, let alone almost a week. Anyone else had this happen?

    • [Deactivated] on 03/01/2022 - 13:39

      I put it to be on 20th of December, Superloop cut off line at midnight, Origin/ABB connected at 8am. FTTP, so could have had both running at the same time. No drama so far, other than there's no control panel and you have to call phone number for any changes.

      • dwhes on 04/01/2022 - 21:20

        Cheers. Finally got disconnected today but origin hasn’t connected. This has been a painful experience. Never had an isp change take longer than 30min since nbn. Wife isn’t happy having no wifi tonight.

  • ValuexHunter on 05/01/2022 - 00:28

    What happens to the gift card if you cancel after 45 days?
    Is it still useable or do you need to spend all the balance on the gift card before cancelling?

  • dwhes on 05/01/2022 - 09:36

    Finally connected after almost 24hrs since disconnection happened from previous isp. Jeez that was a painful experience.

    Has anyone been able to get ipv6 working with origin? I thought they supported it but it’s not working with the same settings I used to use for ipv6 when I was with aussie.

    • CoronavirusVaccine on 08/01/2022 - 23:21
      +1

      Works fine for me using ipv6 with the same settings as ABB.

      A while back ABB's ipv6 used to be /56 but have changed to /48. Can you confirm if you've updated your settings for the /48?

      • dwhes on 09/01/2022 - 13:13

        I just had it set to dhcp on my Orbi with auto config. Anyways weirdly I re-enabled it and it’s working now! So cheers for prompting me to try again anyway lol.

        • CoronavirusVaccine on 09/01/2022 - 15:41
          +1

          I have always found ipv6 settings a bit fiddly and unclear - between the service providers there are small variations and never sure what is correct router settings to go with it. Sadly I think that is an unnecessary complication for ipv6 uptake.

          Great to hear you got it to work!

  • macr0hard on 05/01/2022 - 12:44

    Anyone knows if AGL offers discounts for pensioners? Thinking of switching for my mum too.

  • G77 on 13/01/2022 - 14:55

    Just received my e-gift card.

  • kulprit on 13/01/2022 - 15:07

    Do origin give refunds if we leave part way through a month?

    • kazer on 13/01/2022 - 16:07
      +1

      yes they do. i received my gift card today and called them up an hour later to cancel. they will go pro rata refund for remaining days

      • kulprit on 13/01/2022 - 16:15

        Thanks. Where did you move to next?

        And did they say just to churn out and the account would close and get the refund?

        • kazer on 13/01/2022 - 16:16

          going to get a free month of aussiebb 1000/50. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/672781
          superloop nbn100 for $69 as a new customer is also a pretty sweet deal

        • kazer on 13/01/2022 - 16:18
          +1

          yea they said they'll close the account and i'll get refunded automatically within 10 business days

          • kulprit on 13/01/2022 - 16:22

            @kazer: Champion.

            I was already with superloop before and it's now a year between deals once you leave them.

            But for 50/20 they are the best value for what they offer. Not worth an extra $10 on Aussie.
            Maybe Mate? Launtel prices have gone up it seems.

            • macr0hard on 13/01/2022 - 20:58

              @kulprit: Can you switch to 25/10 after 6 months? Both are the same price right now

      • xianglihangu on 13/01/2022 - 17:03

        Thanks for sharing that. So we don't have to stay at least 45 days to keep the gift card, is that right?

        • kazer on 13/01/2022 - 17:13
          +1

          i signed up on 28/11 and i believe today is around the 45 day mark. so i reckon they send the gift cards after 45 days like they mentioned. you wont receive the gift card if you cancel before you get it.

        • kulprit on 13/01/2022 - 19:55

          I'm not sure they can disable a gift card after they given it to you anyway.

  • hexedhavoc on 13/01/2022 - 19:32

    Got my gift card, but now I am not sure who to switch to xD

    Anyone know if tangerine is good? from what I am reading they sound good, but not sure on ping for gaming etc

    • hexedhavoc on 15/01/2022 - 22:35

      ended up switching to tangerine, seems great so far with excellent pings (my main concern)

      • macr0hard on 15/01/2022 - 23:10

        Was it a smooth transition from Origin to tangerine? Did you have to re-configure the modem etc?

        • hexedhavoc on 18/01/2022 - 02:13

          im on FTTC, fairly simple transition. Just had to put router to ppoe or whatever and then put in user/pass

          Happy with service so far

  • dwhes on 14/01/2022 - 10:35

    Got my gift card too. And given I delayed signup until end of December. I’ve literally only been with them for 2 weeks lol. Could churn out now and have barely paid anything and got a $250 gift card. I’ve scheduled a superloop churn for the day before the end of my current billing period though. Makes things clean. Superloop have $20 off for 6 months on their plans.

    • kulprit on 14/01/2022 - 11:52

      Is there anywhere with origin that you can actually log in and see billing date and data usage etc?

      • Reveen on 14/01/2022 - 13:50
        +1

        I was told by the helpdesk no.

      • dwhes on 14/01/2022 - 16:23

        On your bill they email you.

        • kulprit on 14/01/2022 - 17:33

          Thanks everyone. Just to decide where to go.

  • jjj123 on 14/01/2022 - 14:39

    i think they sent the gift card based on when you sign up not on actual internet transfer day, i received mine early, can I cancel now, can they ask back or disable the gift card?

    • Reveen on 14/01/2022 - 23:10

      I signed up on the first day of the deal and received a confirmation e-mail that I was eligible for the gift card but have not received it yet. Weird.

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