Capital Meats Van -- Beware!

[RoseRed (Premo)]

Originally Posted by harleydude

I've purchased from these guys twice....and actually the meat is pretty good. Just have to negotiate the price down. Now, on the other side......We had purchased a case of Alaskan King Crab Legs along with other products. Of course he didn't have the crab legs on the truck as they were "out of stock but will deliver them as soon as they come in". That was May 2012. I called in July...no crab legs...called again in Aug...no crab legs. Called again in Oct...no crab legs. Attempted to contact someone there in Nov.....no answer and then when I finally did reach someone...no call back. So I initiated a BBB complaint (Nov 2012)...wow....service! But wait.....I agreed to substitute the crab legs with a case "tailless Shrimp". The guy shows up with a variety of shrimp that was frozen into one big clump. Denied the delivery. Told him I wanted "good stuff"...he agreed and scheduled a delivery for the next week. They also closed the BBB complaint....Then...No delivery. I initiated another BBB complaint....then they scheduled another delivery for 5 days later....no show. Scheduled another delivery for one week later....no show. This went on until they finally delivered the shrimp just yesterday (Jan 31st). Moral of the story....if you buy the product...make sure it's on the truck and not thawed/frozen/thawed/frozen. Do NOT rely on them to deliver a product later. They will not do anything until a BBB complaint is filed.

You paid ahead of time for something they didn't have?

[ICit]

Originally Posted by harleydude

I've purchased from these guys twice....and actually the meat is pretty good. Just have to negotiate the price down. Now, on the other side......We had purchased a case of Alaskan King Crab Legs along with other products. Of course he didn't have the crab legs on the truck as they were "out of stock but will deliver them as soon as they come in". That was May 2012. I called in July...no crab legs...called again in Aug...no crab legs. Called again in Oct...no crab legs. Attempted to contact someone there in Nov.....no answer and then when I finally did reach someone...no call back. So I initiated a BBB complaint (Nov 2012)...wow....service! But wait.....I agreed to substitute the crab legs with a case "tailless Shrimp". The guy shows up with a variety of shrimp that was frozen into one big clump. Denied the delivery. Told him I wanted "good stuff"...he agreed and scheduled a delivery for the next week. They also closed the BBB complaint....Then...No delivery. I initiated another BBB complaint....then they scheduled another delivery for 5 days later....no show. Scheduled another delivery for one week later....no show. This went on until they finally delivered the shrimp just yesterday (Jan 31st). Moral of the story....if you buy the product...make sure it's on the truck and not thawed/frozen/thawed/frozen. Do NOT rely on them to deliver a product later. They will not do anything until a BBB complaint is filed.

so you will you continue to buy from them???

[MarieB]

Originally Posted by harleydude

I've purchased from these guys twice....and actually the meat is pretty good. Just have to negotiate the price down. Now, on the other side......We had purchased a case of Alaskan King Crab Legs along with other products. Of course he didn't have the crab legs on the truck as they were "out of stock but will deliver them as soon as they come in". That was May 2012. I called in July...no crab legs...called again in Aug...no crab legs. Called again in Oct...no crab legs. Attempted to contact someone there in Nov.....no answer and then when I finally did reach someone...no call back. So I initiated a BBB complaint (Nov 2012)...wow....service! But wait.....I agreed to substitute the crab legs with a case "tailless Shrimp". The guy shows up with a variety of shrimp that was frozen into one big clump. Denied the delivery. Told him I wanted "good stuff"...he agreed and scheduled a delivery for the next week. They also closed the BBB complaint....Then...No delivery. I initiated another BBB complaint....then they scheduled another delivery for 5 days later....no show. Scheduled another delivery for one week later....no show. This went on until they finally delivered the shrimp just yesterday (Jan 31st). Moral of the story....if you buy the product...make sure it's on the truck and not thawed/frozen/thawed/frozen. Do NOT rely on them to deliver a product later. They will not do anything until a BBB complaint is filed.

Why screw around with BBB

Attorney general

[RPMDAD]

Have never bought from them and after yesterday will never try them. Almost got hit by one of their vans and i had the right of way and the dumb s.o.b. acted like he didn't do anything wrong it was almost like he was oblivious there was a car by him. Rant Over.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by aps45819

Geee, who would ever think that buying meat out of the back of a truck from sleazy guys cruising residential neighborhoods would be a bad idea?

Well, there's that.

[h3mech]

Here is a link I found:
USDA Choice Steaks | USDA Choice Beef | USDA Prime Beef | Wholesale Meat Distributors

[mamatutu]

I just had a visit from Capital Meats, and I remembered this thread. It was around 8pm, just getting dark, husband was at travel team baseball practice, and I was already in my jammies doing laundry, and cooking dinner. I didn't answer the door, obviously, because of the way I was dressed, but what was creepy is that they did that knock...dadadadada-dada, twice. A knock like that usually is from someone familiar, so, at first I thought it was hub or a neighbor. So, I looked out the laundry room window, and saw it was Capital Meats. I live in Calvert on the Broomes Island side, and have a really long driveway; set back. I have never seen them around here before. That was one crazy yellow and orange painted van. Just giving the heads up that they are in the area.

[ZARA]

I ordered from them once and never will again. The meats are injected with a lot of water to give it "bulk" and shrink down to less than half the original size after cooking. The amount of salt is equivalent to a cow’s salt lick! It is some of the worse quality meat I have ever tasted.

[inkah]

Originally Posted by withrespect

I was minding my own business pumping gas.

[daylily]

Originally Posted by mamatutu

I just had a visit from Capital Meats, and I remembered this thread. It was around 8pm, just getting dark, husband was at travel team baseball practice, and I was already in my jammies doing laundry, and cooking dinner. I didn't answer the door, obviously, because of the way I was dressed, but what was creepy is that they did that knock...dadadadada-dada, twice. A knock like that usually is from someone familiar, so, at first I thought it was hub or a neighbor. So, I looked out the laundry room window, and saw it was Capital Meats. I live in Calvert on the Broomes Island side, and have a really long driveway; set back. I have never seen them around here before. That was one crazy yellow and orange painted van. Just giving the heads up that they are in the area.

They came to my house yesterday also. I'm in Calvert, near Dares Beach Rd. Guy standing on my porch started talking about my flower gardens before he introduced himself, going on and on. He said that because we have so many flowers, I must know a lot about gardening so he wanted advice about some flowers he has in his yard. I asked him, "Is that seriously why you pulled onto my property and rang my doorbell? To talk about flowers? Wentworth is right around the corner."

At that point he introduced himself and I told him we're cutting back on meat. So he started talking about crab legs. Told him nobody here eats seafood (true) and told him I had a lot to do, have a nice day. I hate solicitors!