Australian Competitions Club

http://easymeals.net.au/index.php/easy-free-meal/

We are so proud of what we have to offer that we’d like to give you a free meal delivered to your home at no cost to you.  This Easy Meals offer is available Australia wide.  All you have to do is complete the form below and the meal of your choice will be sent out within the next few weeks if selected.

Please note that a valid email address and phone number are needed to ensure the safe delivery of your meal.  This offer is only available whilst stocks last (5000 promo meals available per year distributed randomly at Easy Meals discrection)

Free food - yay!

Thanks for the post culturebird  :D
Meals available are:

- Beef Bourguignon
 - Chicken Korma
 - Chunky Beef & Potato Hotpot
 - Greek Lamb Casserole
 - Chilli Con Carne
 - Chill Bean & Potato
 - Beef Stroganoff
 - Vegetarian Tikka Masala
 - Chicken Tikka Masala

**Note only one meal is provided per household

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I did this once and I will explain what happened.

They ring you up and want to deliver the meal in person.  You will then have two sales people turn up at your door trying to sell you the meals.  When they did this, they had what appeared like a really good deal going - 10 easy meals for $30 (something like that).  But they refused to take the money straight up, insisting it comes out of your bank account on a friday.  So I signed up for that, big mistake.  I started getting all these invoices for over $100 for further supplies of easy meals, I tried to cancel it a heap of times, but they couldn't cancel it because for some reason the initial payment of the $30 wouldn't go through.  I checked with my bank and it was nothing from the banks end that was blocking it. Then a whole other box of meals turned up that I didn't want or order.  Eventually after many weeks dramas, I eventually got it cancelled only paying for the initial cheap meals.

No-one in my family liked the meals, most of them were really watery and you still needed to make something else with them (like pasta, rice etc) as you only get the protein part of the dish.

So beware easy meals.  In my opinion it is not worth the annoyance just to get a free meal.

Thanks for the warning!

Yes, thanks for the warning, volletmay. Maybe I shouldn't have posted up this "free" offer. :( Anyone else encountered the same situation?

I got this offer last time it was up & had no problems at all (mother & brother also received them without issue).  They came in the mail with no personal visit but we did get a phonecall with the offer of signing up - I said no & never heard from them again after getting the free meal (which was quite nice).  Maybe because we're in a regional area?

Last time mine came in the mail too, no problems.  But I will admit I put a fake email address & phone number so they couldn't do any follow ups!

Just had a phone call from this mob this morning, woman said that because there were so many request they didn't have any samples and I could buy the pack of 50 (minimum amount) for first payment of $15 direct debited...I said no thanks. Asked her if there were any free sapmples and she went back into her spiel mode about buying the pack.....

Just had a call also, kinda quite aggressive in her sales tactics trying to sell 50 or 100 meals before you have even sampled. Wonder if this was just a come-on to get our details and hard sell..

I received the same call two weeks ago & I told them I am not buying any until I try them ,she said well your free one won,t be sent for about 8 wks

I got a free sample last time and honestly,it was disgusting and I told them too! Looked like cats vomit!

Really I wouldnt be too upset if you missed out!

Ditto

I just told her that the reason we were trialling is because my kids were fussy and we wanted to find out if they were too spicy, had too many onions, etc. so definitely weren't going to buy till we'd tested.  She was absolutely fine with that and I guess we'll be left alone until we've received our sample now.