Coles Home & Contents Insurance

It is now OVER 3 months since lodging the claim, and I am NO closer to having the issues with my gutters & eaves repaired. Do you really need to ask whether I would recommend Coles Insurance???

Our home was broken in to 6 months ago, made a claim straight away with a police report and found I had to deal with South Africa, poor communication, nil Care , excuse after excuse, I ended up filing a complaint to get the final settlement but has taken 6 months of stress, and I still did not get everything I claimed for that was stolen from my home.... bitterly disappointed

I have had Coles Car Insurance for 2 cars and also house and contents insurance, saved me a lot of money, they went up tremendously so now with Woolies who gave me a big discount

Have been with Coles for a number of years and not made any claims. Renewal of policy, error by Coles deducting 2 direct debit payments from my account instead of 1. On consecutive days I phoned the 1300 number only to discover on both occasions I was speaking with a call centre in South Africa..I responded to their request to email confirmation of bank deductions..no response...I then phone Insurance Australia in Sydney and requested I speak with someone in Australia with regard to my Coles policy only to be told that Coles do not have anyone in Australia that I can speak with. A voice message received but I could not understand it in its entirety due to language not audible, again South African...not good enough Coles!!! We have enough of that with Telstra!! I believed Coles to be an Australian Company and expect they would employ Australians...still waiting for my issue to be resolved...

Severe damage from a fire several months ago. Coles initially offered us a repair amount vastly short of quoted prices, so we are currently waiting on yet another quote to satisfy internal process almost four months later, during which time the house has suffered multiple break-is. Shocking customer service. Do yourself a favour and steer clear.

We've been home and contents insurance customers for several years. Good price, but now we need to make a small claim I can see why they are cheap. Cheap product=poor customer service. We've been getting the runaround since we submitted a claim on 10/1/19, with no resolution in sight. No call backs as promised by the off-shore 'customer service' people. We tried to like you Coles Insurance, but you've let us down at our time of need. Buyer beware, what you save now may cost you later.

I would most certainly recommend Coles home and contents. Not just the great value for money but We had a fire in our kitchen NYE. Absolutely devastating.Coles ( especially James who was handling our claim) was brilliant,caring,friendly.Cant say enough about him. He most certainly put us at ease with his help and guidance Helpful right from the start. If I could hand out a medal to him I would make it GOLD because if we had more caring people like him, the world would most certainly be a much better place. We THANKYOU James a wonderful member of the Coles team. I hope they appreciate the work you do for them. I'll certainly be telling my friends about how good Coles insurance really is.
We also have our cars insured with Coles and have done so for a few years now.
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Worst service I have ever experienced .Promises of phone calls back which never happened on several occasions. waited over 1 and a half hours on phone calls and generally got the run around .I have cancelled my policy and wont be going back

been with Coles for more than 5 years & Had my pergola roof badly damaged in a by hail & an assessor came out & the roof was replaced quite quickly

I have been coles insurance customer (both car and content) for the last five years. The burglary happened at our place last year in July. Initially, for the first four months, they kept asking for various document week by week and not at first instance. After that insurance claim, handler never lodged a claim to get processed. So I have started from scratch again. They approved jewellery claim but rest of the claim twice they have issued JBHIFI voucher which was declined by the store twice saying its FAKE. This is an absolute joke that how this insurance company trades. Do not buy any insurance policy. Coles insurance policy is just a big scam. Till today I am waiting for them to approve my rest of the claim. Must have rung coles insurance for nearly 100 times. I believe their call centre is in NIGERIA.

February 22nd 2019 Update: Scammers Do Not BUY

One of the worst customer service and insurance company in the industry. Took more than 9 months to process my claim. Must have called more than 100 times at least, to get the claim sorted. For 9 months, the company forced me to pay the insurance premium when I was not leaving at the property. Would not recommend anyone to buy any type of insurance policy.

Based on their current practice, the company should not be in practice at all. They don't fall law and harass the customer when it comes to processing the claim.

Been with them 5 years had wind and rain found a leak in roof due to tile being moved by wind insurance refused ?due to bad workmanship of roof tiling.

Called to make a claim, had to get a plumbers report to make sure it was not an ongoing leak and was a sudden leak. don that, got that they never asked for the report. Assessor called review and said they would most likely only repair the base of the kitchen cupboard and not the complete units. With my excess at 500 it properly wasn't worth it, given the age of kitchen and possibility of getting increased monthly payments and loss of no claims bonus.

After two weeks I had not heard anything, so I emailed the person to advise I wished to cancel my request for a claim for reasons mentioned above.

Another week on haven't heard anything at all- Customer service is rubbish

4 years with insurance company never made a claim, found to have a leaking roof, were great to get out an assessor, but now nearly four weeks later, three phone calls to be told it is in team leaders hands and under review due to faulty roof. Rang this morning as there is torrential rain and damage is becoming worse with water running down walls. Told they we raise this as an emergency and would get back to me today....nothing. black mold, water damaged carpet, wet clothes and more rain predicted...thanks Coles happy to draw out monthly payment on the 11/12/2018 while you sleep in your warm cosy beds. Thinking current affair will be my next phone call.

I lodged damage claim of my home contents because of drain flooding, and told me all would be in procedure, inspector will come to my home to evaluate the damage. But 3 weeks passed, nobody contacted me at all. The carpet was releasing stinking smell, I have two young kids, my family are suffering the smell everyday, and my wife was sick because of the smell as well. I have to remove the carpet by myself, the furniture bottom was soaking in the water. I sent two emails with pictures to coles insurance, but we still live in a smelly house without any response. Could anybody give me a reason to stay in coles insurance?

1 year Bheemesh managed the case from beginning to end efficiently following through and providing advice on the status of the claim and timeshares associated with settlement.

So as I sit here on hold for 18 minutes so far yet again for the zilienth time in the last 2 months someone is trying to find a manager because i am sick of the run around. Not only do they not answer or return calls and emails from customers they don't bother with there suppliers either. 2 months after my burglary I am still waiting for them to "assign" someone to replace my items. Not hard you would think but obviously no one there has a clue. They should really be shut down. Just a scam for some offshore company to take peoples money.

December 26th 2018 Update: Unbelievable

I did a review on here 29 days ago and the "Coles team" responded asking for contact details so they could contact me personally. Well here we are a month later and guess what. They still haven't bothered to contact me. Do they do this on purpose to try and make you give up?

Have been with this company for 4 years and made a claim as our air conditioning unit motor burnt out and we assumed we were covered as we paid extra for fusion cover. Coles were adamant that this was not covered under our Contents policy but that it should be considered part of the building. We then approached our Body Corporate Insurance co who stated that it was part of the Contents according to Queensland law. After more denials by Coles we then submitted a complaint with ACFA (google it) which is the new organisation set up after the Royal Commission into banking and insurance practices. They were exceedingly helpful. After a week or so Coles then miraculously discovered a clause in our policy where we were actually covered and they paid out. But a stressful process all the same with a lot of time wasted. So don't give up !

We have been with Coles Insurance for 4 years now. I picked them because they were the cheapest of all online home and contents insurers. We had a burglary earlier this year and a substantial amount of jewellery and iPad was stolen. Once I had a police report and lodged a claim. The process was quick in replacing the stolen items. The claim was passed onto IVAA to handle. The iPad was replaced in a couple of days from The Good Guys without any fuss. We were very pleased with the quality of their preferred jeweller which helped ease the pain of the intrusion. There was never any hesitation or delay in handling our claim

Been with Coles for a few years now and never lodged a claim until now. Claim in an ongoing nightmare with some of the worse customer service we have ever experienced, now contractors has been told to stop because of the extra costs involved??? However I have a signed scope of works that states all necessary works will be undertaken to complete!
Looks like I’m off the the ombudsman!

4 years I think and when we had storm damage they were so helpful and everything we asked for the obliged with courtesy and even the driveway was damaged by a tree loppers truck and they paid out for that even though they didn't have to.I am about to re insure again by the end of this month and have searched for quotes on line which is an interesting experience because thet differences in quotes is massive