Door to door frozen steak salesmen (Kirby: insurance, home security, purchase)

[nightrider127]

I saw one of those trucks one block over from my street yesterday. It was white with red and maybe a little black lettering on it.

[jlawrence01]

Originally Posted by pheaton

Omaha Steaks are guaranteed to be top quality. That's strange, I've always gotten outstanding meat from them. If you got some bad slabs I would have called them, they are really good about standing behind their product and making sure you are satisfied.

First, I used to purchase meat professionally for a large institution. I have been through any number of wholesale butchers buying boxed beef, carcass beef and the like.

Second, I have received 20 boxes of Omaha steaks over the years.

The Omaha Steaks products always arrive in good shape in that they are cryovaced and solidly frozen.

However, the problem I have is that you are paying top dollar for a product that appears to be USDA Select or less. (I can't tell for sure as NONE of the Omaha Steak boxes that I have ever received had a USDA grade on it.) I can better quality at a Sams Club or any major grocery chain and receive USDA choice.

If you want to know what REAL QUALITY mail order meat is, check out this link to which I have no affiliation:

Buy steaks! Order USDA Prime beef online by Allen Brothers

You are going to pay big money for their product but you will get nothing but the best.

[kjbrill]

jlawrence... Allen Brothers - did you say big money, I think you mean huge money. If I paid that much for mail order meat and messed it up on the grill my wife would kill me.

[jlawrence01]

Originally Posted by kjbrill

jlawrence... Allen Brothers - did you say big money, I think you mean huge money. If I paid that much for mail order meat and messed it up on the grill my wife would kill me.

Personally, I buy most of my meats for BBQ at places like Super H Mart (Korean), Woodman's, and the like. I am not going to mail order it.

Today's dinner was marinated Korean short ribs cut asian style. You take a tough piece of meat and cook it quickly over a hot fire. Tomorrow's will be a frogmore stew.

However, sometimes, you have to splurge or reward a valuable employee and nothing does it better than a perfect steak.

Remember that HUGE money in Cincinnati is BIG money in Chicago. (g)

[Ohioan58]

And, again. Today another one of these clowns knocked on our front door.

Smarmy and obsequious as s&&&.

Same line - he had JUST dropped off a big order in the neighborhood, he had a bit left, he wanted to wrap up his route, and would I like to take these great steaks off of his hands? When I refused he said he had chicken, too.

He kept on. I said "Look, I really don't want your stuff. A few years ago, I bought some steaks off of a guy who introduced himself just like you did, with a bunch of steaks supposedly left over after a big delivery down the street, and they were pure crap, so I've been burnt already". "WELL, THAT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN US!"

(Who the f--- is "us", Kemosabe?)

Anyway, I guess this scam replaces the driveway sealer and home lightning rod gypsies who swept through the Dayton area back in the 1970s every year.

[mike1003]

Interesting, this is the week that the Williamson clan hits Cincy

[kjbrill]

Ohioan58... Boy do I remember the blacktop driveway sealer bunch. Some used motor oil squeeged on the driveway which would never dry and you were tracking it in forever. The lightening rod was another good one. I have not personally been hit by the frozen steak salesman.

But others I shy away from are the free home security system if I just pay the monthly monitoring fee, or the super discount deal on anything if I just let them put a promotional sign in my front yard. Just how stupid do these people think the average homeowner is? I take that back some people must be pretty gullible or these outfits would be totally broke long ago.

But one of my favorites is the telephone scam informing me my credit accounts are OK but it is imperative I contact them immediately to lower my interest rates. For while I attempted to get them from continuing to call me. Then I realized they have some kind of exemption from the No Call Rule as they are associated with a financial institution. So then I decided to just be downright nasty, call them a few choice names. and hang up. No avail, they still call back. So I have resorted to my time tested approach with salesmen I don't like, waste their time. I now respond, sure I am desperately in need of reducing my credit card accounts interest. So I run them around the flagpole for awhile. Finally they get down to how many credit cards do you have? - just one. What is you average monthly balance? - zero. Suddenly they are the one hanging up on me.

My wife gets so made because I will allow house-to-house salespeople to come in. A few months ago we had a crew selling vacuum cleaners. I won't mention the brand, but just state it is a very old brand and likely a good cleaner, but costs boo-koo bucks. They showed up at the front door, said they just wanted to clean our downstairs for us and demonstrate their product. I said sure and they said they would return shortly with the demo people. About a half hour later they descended on us. I don't think they got any other takers in the neighborhood, as the entire crew showed up at my house. My wife was fit-to-be-tied, as she knew what I was going to do.

We started off with the standard carpet cleaning and demonstrating the amount their cleaner picked up. Then we went to the attachments for the upholstered furniture and the white paper trap to demonstrate how filthy our furniture was. By this time they are convinced I am going to buy. I inquired as to the price and said no way on Hell would I pay that much for a vacuum cleaner, even if it licked my feet. They asked what kind of cleaner I used, and I said an Oreck. I said let me go up and replace its filter bag and then repeat the test in an upstairs room. Sometimes I am a little forgetful for changing the filter bags.

It was when they got down to the tactics of saying I was ignoring the dangers to my grandchildren by allowing them to enter my filthy house that I told them they could all just leave. Finally they packed up and left. My wife said I hope you are proud of yourself? I said I sure am, we just had a half dozen people spend an entire evening and not make a sale. Somewhere along the line they may learn you have to qualify your customers a little better.

[Sarah Perry]

Originally Posted by kjbrill

... we just had a half dozen people spend an entire evening and not make a sale. Somewhere along the line they may learn you have to qualify your customers a little better.

To each their own, I guess, but I don't want to spend even a minute of my own time on stuff like that that I don't have to. So much that we invested in an old-style phone modem and call-blocking software so now we don't even hear the phone ring when a toll-free number calls. We can also block individual numbers and entire area codes.

I feel really fortunate to live in an area where there are very few door-to-door salespeople. I usually let them get out enough, like one sentence, to say they're selling something and then I say no thanks and close the door.

[Crew Chief]

Sarah, we don't even open the door if we don't know 'em...

[Sarah Perry]

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

Sarah, we don't even open the door if we don't know 'em...

Good point. In everything except real cold weather, we keep our front door open behind a locked glass storm door. So I don't have to actually open the door, something it's important to be careful about. But if I'm home alone or don't like the looks of the person at the door, I don't answer either.