Report: Omaha Steaks
Category: Gourmet stores
Omaha Steaks Soulless Scammers Preying on Old Ladies Omaha Nebraska
*Consumer Comment ..They even IRRADIATE all their meat!
Omaha Steaks
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Omaha, Nebraska, 68103
U.S.A.
Submitted: 12/8/2007 5:22:59 AM
Modified: 3/23/2009 6:37:08 PM
Karl
Long Beach, CaliforniaMy mother's long been getting senile and more vulnerable in many ways. One day I was at her house when a sleazy guy comes to the door peddling Omaha Steaks from his little meat truck. Apparently she knows this guy from before and thinks he's okay, although she's done nothing but complain about her last Omaha Steaks not being up to the standards she was used to.
She welcomes him in but tells him she doesn't want any more and she still has a lot in her freezer, maybe later. He thinks she should get more right now. He keeps pushing her to pack more into her freezer, offering freebies like chicken but she doesn't go for it. Eventually his sales pitch turns to guarantees and if you ever don't like something you can get it replaced, free, no problem Johnny-on-the-spot.
At that point I spoke up and mentioned that my mother hadn't been very happy with the previous batch, would he honor his guarantee with her now? He said 'Sure!' and asked me to show him what she had left in her freezer.
I had no idea what he was capable of up to this point and where this scenario would end up, but if I had known then what I know now I am certain I could have handled the situation better. I am writing this to warn others like I wish I could have been warned of the lowlife character of these people so they don't swindle you or your loved ones too. Forewarned is forearmed.
There was some conversation about what she didn't like and why, and he was very sympathetic and understanding, of course he would replace everything, and he began to pack her three-quarter full medium-sized freezer compartment with new meat he'd brought in with him. There was steak in many varieties and chicken, lots of chicken. He stuffed the rest of that freezer space absolutely full, we thought honoring his guarantee. He seemed like such a nice guy too, I was beginning to think appearances were deceiving.
Then he concludes his act by telling my mother that since she was such a great customer, he'd give her a big discount and only charge her I think it was $199 on $300 worth of meat. I said wait a minute, I thought you were honoring your guarantee. He says 'you don't expect all that meat for free, do you?' and my mother is embarrassed and confused and says she'll go get her checkbook. Remember she told him a hundred times at least she didn't want any more meat, but now that the meat is in her freezer, she somehow feels obligated to pay for it even though she never wanted it, expressly refused to buy it again and again, and that sleazeball put it in her freezer under the pretense of honoring a guarantee. Some guarantee.
Well I don't know about your mother but mine has a will of her own and she gave the guy a check over my strong objections. We had some words and he slithered out happy with his sale and my mother unhappy and disturbed by it all. She said she felt like she owed it to him, didn't want a scene, didn't want to hurt his feelings.
Hurt his feelings? Do reptiles have feelings? This guy just con-artisted my mother in front of me and I didn't see it coming either. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. If you're dumb enough to let one of these Omaha Steaks con artists into your home at least don't let them start putting 'free' anything into your freezer. Especially if you have a senile or other vulnerable person around.
Epilog: I called their corporate offices and asked to speak to the president of the company. Oh he was out on vacation, he'll be back in ten days I think it was. So I mark my calendar and call him back ten days later and get put off again and again but I keep trying and eventually I get through and get to talk to him.
Bottom line: he supported his predatory salesman's con job on my mother 100%. He had talked to the guy (I think he tried to represent him as an independent contractor, as if that made any difference) and decided he hadn't done anything wrong. Sorry too bad for you and your mother.
So now I try to warn people about this outfit, they may be a 'family business' but so is the Mafia. And if you think about it, look what they are selling: the dead flesh of animals. How sensitive can you expect them to be anyway?
Apparently not very. I will never stop telling people this story about the Omaha Steaks Scam Artist.
Karl
Long Beach, California
U.S.A.
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Updates & Rebuttals:
- Omaha Steaks Rob [2/22/2008 6:46:46 PM]
- BALONEY Karl [2/24/2008 2:34:44 AM]
- Omaha Steaks DOES sell door to door Fido [4/19/2008 12:58:42 AM]
- Omaha steasks is very high pressured Cat [4/19/2008 4:02:00 AM]
- Omaha Steaks is just part of a bigger problem, hiding in plain sight Coastal Eddie [4/19/2008 7:54:03 AM]
- This was NOT Omaha Steaks at your mothers house Karl!! Vanessa [6/18/2008 2:16:19 PM]
- VANESSA DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT Coastal Eddie [10/22/2008 5:11:03 PM]
- Relevant Links Coastal Eddie [1/3/2009 9:49:33 AM]
- They even IRRADIATE all their meat! Concerned About Food Safety [3/23/2009 4:16:11 PM]
Omaha Steaks
Omaha Steaks does not go door to door selling their product. They only sell through online, mail order, or retail stores. There are 'Pyramid schemes' that go door to door proclaiming they sell Omaha Steaks products but they provide nothing that says they are Omaha Steaks.
BALONEY
The 'employee' who posted must not have talked to the president of the company. I did. He knows the guy who scammed my mother. He was a little vague about their exact business relationship but suggested the guy was some type of independent contractor and thereby couldn't discipline him. I told him he didn't have to continue supplying him meat but he wasn't having any of that, he didn't care, wasn't his problem. In making him aware of his complicity I learned what his ethics are: he has none, it's all business with Omaha Steaks.
I am reminded of the recent revelations about downer cows being shocked and dragged and forklifted to slaughter, the psychopathic cruelty of this whole industry is appalling. Not to mention the cavalier way they ignore the rules about allowing sick animals to be butchered, it's not just animals they abuse but they knowingly put people at risk from Mad Cow Disease for their bottom line. I probably shouldn't be too surprised that they would take advantage of little old ladies like my mother.
Omaha Steaks DOES sell door to door
Bought a truckload of meat from Omaha salesman. He stated that neighbor was not home to receive their order so he offered it to me.Bought it.Not bad. Good for BBQ
Ordered some 40 lbs of steaks from them about a year later, was'nt home when they delivered, so the ice-packed styrofoam cooler ,full of steaks,was apparently tossed over my fence into my front yard. A front yard with six big dogs. Guess what happened to my steaks.
Omaha steasks is very high pressured
Omaha steaks employees do sell door to door and are very high pressure in thgeir sale tatics. They do prey often on older people who do not have alot of money , but they make it sound like it is the best thing sinc the car was invented. If you know of somronr you should warn them. Their are better places to buy meat and still get an awersomre deal!
Cat
Submitted: 4/19/2008 7:54:03 AM
Modified: 4/19/2008 9:00:06 AM
Coastal Eddie
Encino, CaliforniaU.S.A.
Omaha Steaks is just part of a bigger problem, hiding in plain sight
Two good peer-reviewed studies were done a few years ago in which brain tissue samples were taken from people who had died of Alzheimer's disease, or rather people who their doctors thought had died of Alzheimer's disease The researchers analyzed the brain samples to determine how many of those patients had actually had Alzheimer's, and how many had had 'Mad Cow' disease (in humans it is usually called CJD for Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease; and sometimes people refer to 'CJD variants' when they want the numbers to look smaller). The two diseases have very similar symptoms and at the time could only be conclusively diagnosed at autopsy.
One study found that about 5% of the 'Alzheimer's' patients actually had CJD. The other study found that closer to 15% of their patients actually had had CJD instead of Alzheimer's. Until larger studies are done, a reasonable number for risk estimation purposes would therefore be 10% of people with Alzheimer's actually have CJD.
The NIH says 'Scientists think that up to 4.5 million Americans suffer from AD' (http://www.nia.nih.gov/nia.nih.gov/Templates/ADEARCommon/ADEARCommonPage.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7b2D13AE9A-D6EF-4546-9F02-66D3B3CC1453%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fAlzheimers%2fAlzheimersInformation%2fGeneralInfo%2f&NRCACHEHINT=Guest )
If that NIH estimate is anywhere near accurate, then somewhere around 10% of those people, or up to 450,000 Americans, actually have CJD instead of Alzheimer's disease. A very tiny number of those CJD cases probably arise spontaneously, maybe a few dozen at the most. The rest would result from infections, most of them presumably from eating animal flesh containing the disease.
This means that CJD is an unrecognized epidemic of huge proportions (for comparison, in 1952, the most severe polio epidemic year on record, more than 57,800 people were paralyzed or died from polio). The medical establishment knows these numbers and isn't saying anything though, the FDA and the meat industry INCLUDING OMAHA STEAKS knows these numbers and isn't saying anything either, in fact the FDA and the meat industry adamantly insist that there is no need to test ALL animals at slaughter time to protect the American public (it costs a few bucks you know, and that would hurt profits). The best they do is say that animals too sick to stand up for their slaughter shouldn't enter the food supply, but as we all know from recent events even that weakest of protections doesn't always function as it should. So it shouldn't really be too surprising to learn that so many people are likely infected with CJD. It's probably very contagious too; much of the deer population in the Midwest is infected (I don't know if they call it 'Mad Deer' or what though) and scientists think it may be spread in deer through saliva. So humans may even catch it by kissing an infected person, nobody knows for sure yet however.
There is no cure for CJD and due to its nature it is unlikely a cure will be found for a very long time. The disease has a very long latent period, it may take ten or twenty or even thirty years before it begins manifesting any symptoms. But when it does you lose your mind, you lose your memories, you lose your identity, and you lose your dignity drooling on yourself in your wheelchair and crapping your pants. Not necessarily in that order.
I have always been a believer in karmic justice, that people get what they ultimately deserve. People who can stomach the cruelty and suffering involved in raising animals for slaughter, selling their dead flesh, and consuming them without any thought of guilt or remorse are missing some key part of what it means to be human, and if anyone deserves to contract CJD it is them. BTW all you meat-eaters out there are just as responsible as Omaha Steaks and their suppliers for participating in your thoughtless cruelty toward animals.
Omaha Steaks is just one cog in this larger barbaric industry of death and suffering perpetrated routinely upon millions and millions of animal victims. Look if they don't care about the animals whose suffering they cause and deaths they're responsible for it's not surprising they don't care much about spreading CJD and ripping off little old ladies along the way.
Thank God for the Ripoff Report people who allow people to share their warnings to one another this way.
This was NOT Omaha Steaks at your mothers house Karl!!
I am a former employee of Omaha Steaks and worked for them for many years.
DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING THIS MAN HAS SAID!!
Omaha Steaks does NOT sell door to door. Absolutely NOT! These are scam artists using the Omaha Steaks name. They print new boxes and fill them with inferior product that is NOT Omaha Steaks.
Omaha Steaks has never sold door to door. The company has 3 sectors.
1) Retail stores in metropolitan areas across the country
2) Mail order over the phone or internet, that will be delivered to your home by FedEx, NOT a man in a little truck
3) Restaurant supply - servicing high end steak houses across the country.
As far as the guarantee is concerned. Of course the scamming man in the little freezer truck didn't honor the guarantee, he is a scam artist and he is not selling Omaha Steaks product. Omaha Steaks ALWAYS upholds their guarantee. If you are not 100% satisfied they will give you your money back or replace the product because they are confident that you will be satisfied. When I worked in one of the stores I always honored the guarantee and never caught any flack from corporate for doing so. The Simon family believes that customer service is #1!
Omaha Steaks is a family business and they treat their employees and customers that way. Of course you couldn't get through to the president Karl. That's not the way corporations work. I challenge you to get ahold of ANY corporate president by simply calling. That's what receptionists are for, screening calls!
Please do not believe this man. It is not his fault that apparently both he and his mother were scammed by this man. I promise you this was NOT Omaha Steaks
Submitted: 10/22/2008 5:11:03 PM
Modified: 10/22/2008 10:39:09 PMCoastal Eddie
Encino, CaliforniaU.S.A.
VANESSA DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT
'Vanessa' says no, that Omaha Steaks doesn't sell door-to-door, and she is TECHNICALLY correct. But what she doesn't know or doesn't admit is that Omaha Steaks DOES sell their products wholesale to people that then go around and sell their products door to door.
I TALKED DIRECTLY TO THE PRESIDENT OF OMAHA STEAKS ON THE TELEPHONE AND HE TOLD ME HE KNEW THE SCAMMER WHO SCAMMED MY MOTHER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. HE ALSO TOLD ME THAT HE WASN'T GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, LIKE STOP SELLING HIS PRODUCTS TO THE SCAMMER. NOTHING AT ALL -- HE COULDN'T CARE LESS. SO THAT MAKES OMAHA STEAKS COMPLICIT IN THE SCAM.
There's no way to hairsplit your way out of this Vanessa, Omaha Steaks knew full well about the creep who ripped off my mother and THE PRESIDENT OF OMAHA STEAKS DOESN'T CARE!
Just like they don't seem to care who might get Mad Cow Disease from eating their UNTESTED beef.
Submitted: 1/3/2009 9:49:33 AM
Modified: 1/3/2009 12:26:10 PMCoastal Eddie
Encino, CaliforniaU.S.A.
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Omaha Steaks Sells Mad Cow Disease:
http://madcowomahasteaks.blogspot.com/
4,060 Google results and counting for 'Mad Cow Omaha Steaks'
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS289US289&q=mad+cow+omaha+steaks
Submitted: 3/23/2009 4:16:11 PM
Modified: 3/23/2009 6:37:08 PMConcerned About Food Safety
Encino, CaliforniaU.S.A.
They even IRRADIATE all their meat!
Mad Cow Omaha Steaks 'proudly' advertises on their website that they IRRADIATE ALL THEIR MEAT! This means they expose it to high levels of ionizing radiation to kill bacteria and any parasites that might be in it. This does NOT mean that the meat itself become radioactive, but it does mean that the radiation has caused a whole lot of chemical reactions to occur in their meat that otherwise wouldn't have happened.
Irradiation of food has been controversial for decades but has finally won FDA approval. With irradiation even the dirtiest food will be sterilized of its bacteria and parasites (NOT the misfolded proteins that cause Mad Cow Disease however) but what they don't tell you, and what the FDA worried about for years, was the possibility of the chemical reaction byproducts of irradiation being dangerous. That's mainly because ionizing radiation causes the formation of high levels of free radicals in food, and free radicals being highly reactive chemically will cause a lot of chemical reactions to occur INDIRECTLY as a result of radiation exposure, even more than DIRECT effects. DIRECT effects of radiation in this case would be the chemical reactions caused by the radiation itself instead of acting through the mechanism of free radical formation. Even though the INDIRECT effects usually outweigh the DIRECT effects of radiation, both are important, or should be to anyone concerned about food safety.
Free radicals in food can often react with antioxidants like vitamin C, vitamin E, and glutathione peroxidase (sometimes known as 'free radical scavengers') to prevent the free radicals from going on to do chemical damage, but in so doing they deplete the food of its antioxidants. Normally in living tissues new antioxidants will replace the used-up ones but of course this can't happen in dead meat, so what you wind up with with irradiated Omaha Steaks is dead meat depleted by radiation of much of its nutrient value. Of course you also have whatever radiation-induced chemical reaction products were produced by direct effects of the radiation and chemical reaction products produced by indirect effects of the free radicals that did not get successfully scavenged by antioxidants. And the new chemicals formed can be almost anything not naturally occurring in the food, which is why the FDA banned food irradiation for years. What they have done, and what they don't tell you, is that they decided to approve food irradiation after numerous studies showed that the nasty chemicals formed by irradiation were TOO LOW IN QUANTITY TO BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. In other words, only a little bit of poison is formed in food by irradiation, so the FDA figures you can handle it. And the people at the FDA who actually made that decision don't mind one bit the millions of dollars spent on them by food industry lobbyists to convince them that only a little bit of poison won't hurt you. It took decades for them to be convinced, but eventually they were. This is the same agency that DOESN'T REQUIRE ALL CATTLE TO BE TESTED FOR MAD COW DISEASE either, now isn't that comforting?
Mad Cow Irradiated Meat is what you get from Omaha Steaks. Nasty dead meat depleted of its antioxidants by irradiation but still able to transmit Mad Cow Disease to you. Omaha Steaks knows this, but you won't hear them admit it. They are knowingly and deliberately transmitting a horrible disease that causes people to literally lose their minds as they also drool on themselves and crap their pants. And they give this to you in substandard food depleted by radiation of much of its nutritive value and containing a witch's brew of who-knows-what chemical reaction products. You'd have to be crazy to purchase their products knowing what you know now. Tell all your friends about Omaha Steaks and the FDA approving irradiation so that they too can avoid irradiated foods and Mad Cow Disease.
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