These are not scams and its over to each person to act like an adult.
Just do your normal shopping. Dont go buying extra stuff just to gather points. After your normal shop check your points and if you have enough to get a free something then go for it. If not then so what? There is no rip off involved. You are getting something for free. If you choose to buy stuff you wouldnt normally so you can gather points then thats on you.

This was actually my least favourite, being an adult I already have pots and pans and the points are to high, I needed the knives so I made sure I spent enough

Scam!? What are you talking about! This frustrates me so much. It’s your own stupidity for spending more then you normally would to collect extra points in the first place. I think its bloody fantastic! People honestly just need to complain about anything any everything. It’s a little freebie for customer’s who regularly shop at coles, thats it no scam no gimmick thats it!! Im over the moon that I’ve got free pots and pans for shopping at my local coles. Bargain!!

Once bitten twice shy. Got caught with a bunch of credits with the knives promotion and was unable to redeem them as stock had run out. This is yet another shameless scam by Coles.. Our local Coles has had limited supplies of cookware for the past 2 months and ran out completely a couple of weeks ago. I have been informed that they will not be receiving any further stock So once again; I am left with worthless credits. Coles are continuing to promote this scam in their catalogues knowing quite well that customers can’t redeem them. That’s it, I will not be shopping again at Coles. I have Woolworths across the street from coles and an IGA in walking distance. Th $10 discount scheme by Woolworths is far better value.

Yep. You were exactly right. The Masterchef cookware ran out more than a week ago, and at least two weeks before the end date of this promotion. Just like with the knives, I am left with enough credits for more than one saucepan, but could not redeem them as all the Coles stores in my area that I visited or called had NO stock. Coles has not even offered to provide customers with store- credit/appropriate amount of Flybuy points in lieu of the missing cookware. Well Coles, you won’t get a THIRD chance to scam me as I won’t spend another cent in any Coles store.

I’m hopeless and don’t even know how to check my points. I prefer getting something instantly. Maybe they could do scratches that instant win the prizes instead of a points thing

They’re terrible! The stock pot takes forever to heat up and when it finally does it heats unevenly so you have to he there continually stirring but the handles then get too hot to hold when it heats through. I was in 2 frames of mind on whether to use my extra points and try a smaller saucepan buy I guess Coles made my mind up for me since they’re out of stock anyway!

The problem is the cookware points = $1 of the cookware retail $, so one must collect 100 credits for a $100 pot at only 1 credit per $20 spend; i.e. $2,000 spend !!! Only a family of more than 2 x children would spend that much in the time available.

I’m single and have only accumulated 30 credits over 8 weeks !

I’m never going to fall for another Coles master chef cookware/knive/glass promotion again. I just missed out on collecting enough points for the knive promotion so I was happy to finally collect enough points (50) to try and redeem for a medium master chef fry pan.

My hopes were sadly broken tonight when I travelled to two stores, neither of which had any master chef cookware left at all.
It seems that there was a 25% off promotion on these items over the weekend, despite the promotion being due to run for another weeks – What a waste of collecting master chef cookware credits!

I stated collecting these pots and pans. I have 4. I can tell you they are SHIT. Wouldn’t waste my time collecting them again.
You can’t touch the handles of the pan or pots when cooking or you’ll burn yourself BADLY. The “stainless steal” underneath discoloured after the first use. The non stick coating is so bloody thin.

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  Once bitten twice shy. Got caught with a bunch of credits with the knives promotion and was unable to redeem them as stock had run out. This is yet another shameless scam by Coles.. Our local Coles has had limited supplies of cookware for the past 2 months and ran out completely a couple of weeks ago. I have been informed that they will not be receiving any further stock

  So once again; I am left with worthless credits. Coles are continuing to promote this scam in their catalogues knowing quite well that customers can’t redeem them. That’s it, I will not be shopping again at Coles. I have Woolworths across the street from coles and an IGA in walking distance. Th $10 discount scheme by Woolworths is far better value.

Never get enough points

We have the 18cm saucepan and it really is great quality, would definitely recommend you use your points before the promo ends.

Have managed to get the large frypan and it is wonderful to use. Will take a look at some of the saucepans for my remaining points. The items are good but quite expensive.

Again what a scam I’ve been saving points for the stir fry pan now that I have enough points I can’t find one anywhere I have called all the coles around approx 25 km not one store has any
I am turn off even shopping at coles

Got enough points to get the cookware I wanted, and my store had plenty of stock.

I found both the knives and the pans good Had no problem just doing the regular shop and getting both knives that I wanted Same with the pans Only wanted the 28cm stirfry pan with lid and got it with just the regular shop I think too many people expected to suddenly have enough points for a full set of each

I -WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO USE MY FLYBUYS POINTS TO BUY THESE POTS OUTRIGHT, AS WITH ONLY TWO OF US I SIMPLY CAN’T SAVE ENOUGH CREDITS. IT TOOK ME FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PROMO IN MARCH TILL THIS WEEK TO HAVE ENOUGH FOR THE 26CM FRYPAN (70 CREDITS) AND IT IS A VERY NICE ITEM. IT WOULD BE OF GREAT HELP IF WE COULD USE OUR FLYBUYS POINTS TO BUY THESE ITEMS AS THEY ARE VERY EXPENSIVE OTHERWISE. HOW ABOUT TRIALLING THIDS SYSTEM PLEASE GUYS??

I’ve spent extra to get to one knife and when I went to get it they ran out! I’ve been doing groceries every week and I’m not even half way to the cookware need to spend so much money to get there! Or buy the products they want you to buy.

So I found this article when looking for actual reviews of the quality of the cookware, rather than the promo itself. We must fall directly into the correct Coles demo because despite being very savy shoppers always comparing prices and looking for promos, had no problems earning points for knives and now an 18cm pot, which we were actually looking for. I am comparing it to the 2LIkea 365+ which costs $30 with a lid (and a 15 year guarantee) which we have had for 3 years and gets multiple daily workouts. So we wanted another one. The lack of a lid is a bit annoying but not critical (the Ikea lid fits perfectly and we have similar spares), but compared to the 365+ 2L the heat dissapation and retention is nowhere nearly as good. Also it is much harder to clean (slow cook scrambled eggs for example). We will keep it and use it, but probably for things like boiling eggs, pasta and blanching vegetables rather than slow cooking. If you are thinking about getting it with just points – maybe, if you intend on spending $20 + 20 points, then don’t. Spend an extra $10 and get the Ikea 365+ 2L

I’m not sure how these offers can be called ‘scams’. You buy groceries, you get bonus points. If you just do your normal shopping and don’t chase for points, you ‘may’ end up with the ‘bonus’ item on offer. From my normal shop I have about 35 points, do I want to get any saucepan or pot from the current offer, the stock pot would be lovely, but I won’t have enough points for that. The little steamer would be handy, but otherwise, nope, not for me. But I do love the knives that I gained last time.