On 9/17/2010 a man by the name of Chris came to my door and asked my husband to buy a case of meat. Of course this was his last case he had to get rid of so he could be done for the day. My husband like a fool fell for it and paid 130.00 for this case of 60 pieces of meat. A couple days later I opened up a package of the meat and realized it smelled funny. I though maybe because of the way it was packaged or something so I put it on the grill. Well, it tasted just as bad as it smelled. My husband said maybe it was just that box. We noticed that something in our house stunk but could not figure out what it was. When we would open the fridge it was strong so I cleaned out the fridge. The smell was still in our house. I opened up the freezer and the smell almost made me vomit! I pulled a box of the steaks out and sure enough it was the meat he purchased from the door to door meat salesman. I contacted the salesman Chris at 616-929-3188 on 9/28 to tell him that we had an issue with the meat. he said I had to call the corporate office at 866-547-8325 because he would not be in my area to help me. I called the corporate office like he asked and no one answered and no one called me back. I called Chris back at 4:00 PM to tell him again that I do not want this stinky meat in my home. He said let me call Kenny he is my boss. When Chris called me back he said that Kenny said he would get back with me tonight or tomorrow. I said "what is Kenny's direct number I am not keeping this rotten smelly meat in my home" he said "I dont have it" WEIRD he just called him right? He said he contacted him at the corporate office number he gave me. So I guess Kenny just does not answer for customers??? So I got onto this site and found another posting that said they called Craig at 616-308-2908 about there meat issues. Craig asked me how I got his number and got very upset. I told him from this site. He said that he did not believe me that he received rotten meat. Funny if he would come get it then he would know how it smells. He said he will call me back tonight. So here I am with another night of rotten meat at my home. I called my bank and they said that they have 30 days to make this right or the bank will take action and get my money back. I am thinking a trip to there office with the rotten meat is in order. I wasnt even asking for my money back I just want the meat replaced with something that does not smell like a dead animal!
Joe
Austin,#2Consumer Comment
Sun, January 27, 2013
The guys with the trucks are gone.
Apparently they were NOT affiliated with the company who wrote in to complain!
I don't know where they went.
So looks like some serious identity theft was going on here!
And the guys I wrote about changed their phone numbers frequently.
Disgruntled former employees,maybe?
It is reallylousy when good honest businesses have a name that is similar to one that is defamed by some scammers.
YOUR business does not even have an office here.
Karl
Highlands Ranch,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, January 23, 2013
You can also stay at this website and type in- FLIPPED EM THE BIRD, and click on Ripoff Report #529757. If you scroll down to Consumer Comment #4 you can read "STEAK DINNER POEM", along with many other poems and songs that appear in the consumer comments section at Ripoff Report #529757.
Have a great day!
Karl
Highlands Ranch,#4Consumer Comment
Thu, November 24, 2011
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Highlands Ranch,#5Consumer Comment
Fri, August 12, 2011
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Highlands Ranch,#6Consumer Comment
Tue, August 09, 2011
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Highlands Ranch,#7Consumer Comment
Fri, July 29, 2011
you can read Ripoff Report #529757, and you might be able to sing the latest song that was submitted in the consumer comments section on July 29, 2011.
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Highlands Ranch,#8Consumer Comment
Thu, July 28, 2011
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Highlands Ranch,#9Consumer Comment
Thu, February 03, 2011
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Karl
Highlands Ranch,#10Consumer Comment
Wed, February 02, 2011
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John
Memphis,#11Consumer Suggestion
Sun, January 30, 2011
If you look over the website ther's NO mention of the meat being of US origin. That leaves all kinds of possibilities open of where the meat is sourced from. The USDA does inspect meat coming in from foreign countries. Don't you deserve to know what nations flag your steak was slaughtered under?
John
Memphis,#12Consumer Suggestion
Sat, January 29, 2011
Their web site is interesting, especially the 'guarantee'. NO REFUNDS, just exchanges. Their meat is USDA inspected. Big deal. WHAT GRADE IS IT?? Cutter, canner maybe?
Folks, your local butcher shop will outdo these 'deals' hands down. Not satisfied, you'll get your money back.
The picture ishardly convincing. Show us the outside of the building where you proudly display your corporate logo for all to see.
The truck looks a lot like a Cadillac Escalade. Your salespeople all use these, right?
past worker
ft wayne,#13UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, January 26, 2011
Hey just wanted to say run from this company. I worked for them in the past and ya those nice vans not so nice. All the guys in the company pay 30 bucks everyday just to drive that crap. The only people making money is craig that than his boss which says that they are the biggest company really. Having two offices is the biggest. Mich and ft wayne. Oh thats right you used to have one in colubus too. My bad. All i can say is that everyone i met didnt have crap and were all living in hotels close enought to where if they couldnt drive the vans home could walk there. Was one older guy there that i went with was about the only honest person in there but he too has nothing. So if your going to work there and want to work for people that smoke in a office that isnt suppose to be smoked in and drink on the job and drive a guy around that drinks on the job then hey this is the job for you. Oh and by the way yes you are independent contractor to so you have to pay your own taxes and good luck trying to figure that one out. They keep zero record of any of the people that you sell while you are out there. So ya i know the jack off will respond and say how i am not right with what i have said. But all i have to say is craig and ken you both know all of this is right.
Karl
Highlands Ranch,#14Consumer Comment
Wed, November 10, 2010
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calmar,#15General Comment
Wed, November 10, 2010
There once was a guy who sat on his butt
Then he got in a terrible rutt
He got in his head
The poems he googled we read
With his stupid advice
We took his device
And watched as he cried when he fled!
LOL! HI KARL!
Ronny g
North hollywood,#16Consumer Comment
Wed, November 10, 2010
..and..it has nothing to do with this complaint. If you google Karls poems (which apparently NOBODY does, but I have read a few), you will undoubtedly conclude the poems suck.
Karl
Highlands Ranch,#17Consumer Comment
Tue, November 09, 2010
is available at this site.
Edgeman
Chico,#18General Comment
Tue, November 09, 2010
Did I read that right? Country Choice was calling the OP at home and at her job in order to get her to post a response?
Kelly Marshall
Muskgon,#19Author of original report
Tue, November 09, 2010
I am sorry it took me so long to update this posting.... I know I should have updated this when they brought me the new meat but I am busy working and didnt think it was my problem nor did I say anything that was not true in my initial posting. I worry if I do not post this that they will continue to call me at work and on my home phone so here goes....
I called Craid back later that night after I had not heard from him and then Craig did end up calling me back later and let me know he would have new meat out to me. He was very nice on the phone this time and did not act like I was wrong about the meat. He did tell me they have not had this issue in the past. He did send a driver out the next day when it would be convenient for me to take the old meat and leave me the new meat. I have since made just about all of the steaks and the burgers and they are very good. We have not had any issues since the meat has been replaced which is all I wanted in the first place. I also have had friends that ordered meat from them and did not have a problem and no they do not drive junky trucks they actually have nice vans with freezers in the back of them.
I did try to follow the proper lines of command when I started with this issue even though he seems to think I didnt. Everything I stated in my initial posting is true. The salesman wrote down his personal number on our pamplet and told my husband "you can call me with any issues or questions" So when the meat smelled funky I did just that. He asked me to call the CS line which I did and no one would answer and no one cared to return my call. SORRY if I seemed a little over irritated but the meat that I had in my home did smell and I did not want to keep it in my house and they said that I could not dispose of it. I think anyone in that situation would have gotten irritated as I have.
Though I will not order from them again because of this experience the 2nd round of meat is perfectly fine and I understand that ever order cannot be perfect but I would expect the customer service to be!
Country Choice GM
Grandville,#20UPDATE Employee
Wed, November 03, 2010
First of all, we have never been Cattleman's/Rancher's/Barnyard or whatever Choice you're claiming. We have been Country Choice for close to 10 years, and since you're claiming we have changed our #'s, do your research. Our main line is 1-866-547-8325, see how long that # has been in existence under the same Company. We do not own a pickup, so to categorize us with another Company that may piggy back off of the 100,000 plus satisfied customers we have created over the last 10 years is sad on your part. To accuse us of selling people we've killed is absurd, and worthy of a lawsuit. Our distributor is the largest in the Country, and they service thousands of accounts other than just us. I'm sure they would be interested in your accusations as well. We have other offices in the U.S. and we have plenty of hard working Americans that are honest, with pristine background checks, and depend on our Company to pay their bills. I invite you to come take a look at our state of the art Corporate Office/Warehouse in the Grandville business center. We are not some rinky dink Company, that has been able to survive this long by scamming and/or hustling people. As I have stated, we are in full compliance with all Dep't of Ag guidelines and they visit regularly. When you consider there are a handfull of complaints on here vs. the thousands of people that go out of their way to thank us, it's not a bad ratio. However, any unsatisfied customer is 1 too many. The original complaint on here by Kelly has long since been taken care of. I looked at getting these removed, or rectified and the cost per case is $2,000. That seems like a rip off in itself. I will include some pictures of our "hole in the wall" office as you claim it to be. You be the judge. If you see a pickup with our name on please call, because it is someone fraudulantly representing our fine establishment.
Walter
Madison,#21Consumer Comment
Sun, October 24, 2010
You people selling meat off a truck better not come to my house. I call the cops, because I know you don't have a permit to be peddling in this town. I hope you come knocking, then I can call the cops and have them come get you. You people that buy meat off the back of a truck are idiots. Hell, just don't buy anything from someone that is a peddler. We had a magazine saleman molest a little 12 year old girl when she answered the door and couldn't produce a parent when he asked where they were. Then he realized she was there alone and he had hit the jackpot. All peddling needs to be outlawed, it is dangerous, and you will lose money.
I bet Chris doesn't even have all his front teeth, and hasn't washed his hair in weeks.
Joe
Austin,#22Consumer Comment
Thu, September 30, 2010
THIS IS ALMOST AS WELL-KNOWN A TOTAL SCAM AS THE FAKE MAGAZINE PEDDLERS WHO ALSO GO FROM DOOR TO DOOR.
IF SOMEONE COMES TO YOUR DOOR SELLING ANYTHING. DON'T ANSWER OR TELL THEM TO GO AWAY OF YOU WILL GET THE COPS BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO BE A SCAM!
I HAD FAMILY MEMBERS SELL GIRL SCOUT COOKIES DOOR TO DOOR BACK IN THE LATE 1950S AND THE EARLY 1960S BUT IT WAS A DIFFERENT WORLD BACK THEN.
THEY USED TO CALL THIS COMPANY CATTLEMEN'S CHOICE, RANCHER'S CHOICE, BARNYARD CHOICE, AND THEN STEAKHOUSE CHOICE..WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY CALL IT NOW... AND THEY USED TO HAVE A CHEAP GARAGE AND OFFICE NEAR A PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY WHERE I WAS WORKING, ONE NOTORIOUS ON CHEAP LOCATIONS.
I WOULD BE IN MY CAR AFTER WORKING PATROL ALL NIGHT AND I WOULD SEE THE EX-CON LOSERS AND OTHER MISFITS COME IN FOR THE DAILY CON,AS I CALLED IT. THEIR SALES MANAGER GUY WOULD PUMP THEM UP AND I COULD SMELL THE MARIJUANA AND THEY WOULD JUMP INTO THOSE BANGED UP PICKUPS WITH THE INSULATED COOLER CHESTS ON THE BACKS AND AWAY THEY WOULD GO.
THEY WOULD SELL TO LOWER END RESTAURANTS IN LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL NEIGHBORHOODS.
THEY WOULD GET A COUPLE OF CASES OF "MEAT" AND WALK INTO A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD, HAWKING IT DOOR TO DOOR USUALLY TELLING PEOPLE THAT IT WAS THEIR LAST CASE OR THEY HAD STOLEN IT FROM A STEAKHOUSE AND IT WAS TOP QUALITY AND THEY WOULD YOU LET YOU HAVE SUCH A DEAL.
I WOULD HEAR THESE CLOWNS LAUGHING ABOUT IT AND PERFECTING THEIR SALES PITCHES WHEN THEY WOULD COME IN FROM WORKING THESE ROUTES AND SHARING THEIR SCHEMES.
THEY WERE ALWAYS CHANGING OUT THEIR TRUCKS AND PHONE NUMBERS AND THE PEOPLE WHO HAWKED THIS MERCHANDISE WHICH I DON[T THINK THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING IF THEY WERE HONEST. AND OF COURSE, THESE GUYS ALWAYS INSISTED THAT IF YOU PAID CASH, YOU COULD HAVE EVEN A BETTER DISCOUNT WHICH WAS $130 PER CASE, SAME AS YOU PAID.
A GUY I WAS WORKING WITH ONCE BOUGHT WHAT THEY CLAIMED WAS SHRIMP AND WHEN HE GOT IT HOME, HE LEARNED THAT THERE WERE FIVE HALF-ROTTEN JUMBO SHRIMP IN ONE HECKUVA LOT OF ICE WHICH MELTED INTO SOME STENCH. HIS CAT ATE GOOD.
SO THIS IS JUST ANOTHER DOOR TO DOOR SCAM.
THEY OFFERED TO SELL ME SOME MEAT. I ASKED THEM IF IT WAS KOSHER AND THEY SAID IT WAS NOT. END OF SALES PITCH.
AND YOU ALL FELL FOR IT...
WHEN YOU ARE BUYING MEAT, ANY FORM OF MEAT, YOU ARE BUYING A DEAD ANIMAL. AND IF YOU HAD EVER SEEN AN AUTOPSY, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THE MEAT YOU BUY LOOKS A LOT LIKE PARTS OF HUMAN BEINGS.
HOW DID YOU KNOW IN FACT YOU WERE NOT BUYING HUMAN VICTIMS FROM THESE PEOPLE?
BASED ON WHAT I SAW OF THE WHOLE OPERATION, I WOULDN'T HAVE PUT ANYTHING PAST THESE PEOPLE!
THIS IS LIKE A SCAM THE OLD-TIME MOBSTERS RAN UP ON THE NE COAST, I AM TOLD. SO WHY NOT MAKE A FEW PEOPLE "DISAPPEAR" INTO THE MEAT PEDDLERS?
DO NOT BUY FROM PEOPLE LIKE THIS. IT IS A VERY OLD SCAM.
NO TELLING WHERE THEY REALLY GET IT OR WHAT THEY ARE REALLY SELLING TO YOU.
IF YOU MUST EAT MEAT, BUY IT FROM A REPUTABLE GROCERY STORE.
Country Choice GM
Grandville,#23UPDATE Employee
Thu, September 30, 2010
I understand your frustration if you feel the meat you got was not good. The reason you had a difficult time getting a speedy resolution was because you called the Driver. I spoke with Chris and he said he told you to follow the guidelines for customer service matters that are outlined on the brochure. You did this and called the customer service line 9/29 and we are glady rectifying this situation the following day 9/30. You have to understand that for every 1 unhappy customer we have hundreds who rave about us. Unfortunately for us, it is only the ones who are unsatisfied who take the time to spread word via the internet. I am going to work on some testemonials from our faithful customers. It is in NO way our intention to take advantage of anyone. I personally buy all of my meat products from Country Choice. We have been in business approximately 10 years and we would not be if we did not care if our customers were happy. I want to reitterate, once you called the customer service line, we promptly scheduled a time with you the following day to resolve this matter. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced. Please respond to this to let anyone reading that what I am saying is the truth.
Sincerely, Country Choice Management