On our last bill we came out $59 refund, mainly due to $80 worth of referral credits!

How to get your own URL to get referral credits.

Any AMBER user can get a code to give out to others to sign up.

If someone signs up using your code, both you and them get $10 off your bill for the next 12 months, a total of $120.

1. Firstly, you need to sign up yourself.
2. After you are signed up, go to your ‘settings’ on your Amber app then to ‘Claim my Code’ and you’ll get your own code that you can share. When you click and copy you’ll get a link this this:
   mates.amber.com.au/4HBHT3XK?utm_source=amber&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=AE537_Multi_Traffic_Generic&utm_term=&utm_content=referral_share_link

That’s the code you need to share to give yourself and others the discount.

It’s a bit long so you can delete everythign after the code, from ?utm onwards

So the link above becomes 4HBHT3XK

How to get your own CODE

If the person has already entered their home address and they are at the ‘promo cade page’ it’s too late to use the link Amber give you, unless you want to ether all your details again. The prompt looks like this.

In this case you need to enter the 8 digit code.

The code comes from the link above, after amber.com.au/ and before the ? so in the example above the code is 4HBHT3XK

How to share your code

This is where you start to make your own credit. You need to share your code in a polite way. Most forums ban the sharing of referral codes. Here are 3 great options to get you started.

1. Reddit referral forums

I got most of my referrals through the reddit thread called ReferralcodesAUS. This is good because it gets picked up by both Google search and by AI.

2. Post on Ozbargain

A great place to post your code is Ozbargain on this thread.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/907837

It randomly gives people a code and if you add your code it will be added to the codes that Ozbargain gives to people.

3. Make your won webpage

Here’s mine – take a look!

Note about the Commbank Yello deal

The current ‘Exclusive’ CommBank Yello offer you see is exactly the same discount as the promo codes you get from another Amber user! It’s just $10 of per month for 12 months = $120. In otherwords, it’s a marketing gimmick from CommBank.
You don’t have to be a Commonwealth bank customer to get this deal. There’s nothing exclusive about it!
All it does is shift the other half of the $120 discount from another Amber user to Commbank themselves.
Here when you use someone elses code ot post your own to use, you spread the savings around instead of CommBank getting all the credit (literally!)

Enjoy

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Problem with the NSW regulations

It’s the second day of my battery and I tried to set it up to charge during the day, then discharge back into the grid at night so as to boost the grid in the evening. It would not work. A quick search revealed this is the same case for everyone. From what I can work out, this feature is disabled in Australia so that you cannot set your battery to discharge during certain hours. It will only discharge when you are using it, you cannot set it to discharge into the grid. Very disappointing.

A kind of Solution: VPP

Today I signed up to Amber Energy, they supposedly allow you to discharge into the grid under a VPP (Virtual Power Plant) system. I’d prefer to retain control and charge and discharge when I want, but this seems to be the only way to do it You sign up to a VPP and they take control of your battery. I’ll post here as to whether it works or not.

In case it’s good, here’s a code I got to make $10 if I refer other people and they also get $10 off a month. If you use Amber feel free to use it.
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Give me a few days and I’ll let you know if it’s worth it.