Direct USA Meats ripoff greedy scamming dishonest fraudulent Austin Texas

i used to work for this company....right out of high school...17 years old...i worked for them for 3 years! what a job...what an experience!! what a way to make some pretty good money (at my age at least)...easily make $100-$200 a day....in a matter of a couple sales....i'm not going to go on and on......but if you bought meat from Direct USA, Midwester MEats, Northern Meats, or any other door to door salesman trying to sell meat....you probably paid between $138 - $178 for the case of meat...a case consists of 5 boxes..a box of t-bones, a box of delmonicos, a box of skewers, a box of chopped steak, and a box of bacon wrapped filets! REMEMBER these are whatever the salesman says these are....ALL OF THIS MEAT IN THIS CASE is utility beef...some very cheap sirloin...for example...the bacon wrapped filet mignons you bought...are simply cheap sirlion wrapped w/ bacon...etc, etc, etc....and as an "INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR" we get the box for around $93 - $103 a case (can get as low as $80something depending on how many we sold for the day.....so selling the case for around $150+ is a profit of $50 or more for us....three, four deals in a span of 5 hours of knocking on 100+ doors EQUALS $150 -$200+ in our pocket...it's really a numbers game...we have to knock on over a hundred doors to make at least $100 & change......anyway....I remember working for a guy who sold meat out of his house w/ a couple of guys who had their own trucks and small freezers, etc....the owners of these kind of places get this CASE of 70-80 cuts of steaks for around $40. so they make $50-$70 off each CASE that WE (independent contractors) SELL/BUY off them.....because we get them for $90-$105 & pay them that for it...so it's really ours on consignment from them....and d**n they make a killing....our little office in Cape Coral (DIRECT USA) when it was there back in '99-'02 we would sell AT LEAST 60-100 CASES a day...i would think...because we had 10 trucks going out every day w/ two contractors on each...and each contractor would sell at least a couple at worst & more like 3 or 4 CASES a peice.....so for the month 2,000 -3,000 CASES at $50-$60 profit from the contractors!! WHAT A BUSINESS TO RUN!!!!!!!!!!! BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?? it's not like they're forcing people to buy the stuff....a little tip to you: if someone comes knocking on the door trying to sell something....just say you don't have the time & have a good one (and just close the door)....they will go away....it's just a numbers game to them, it's not like they're going to get pissed because you slammed the door on them...they know they're going to get 100 slammed doors a day...it's the 2, 3, 4 doors that don't get slammed are the ones that they take advantage of. DON'T BE AFRAID TO SAY NO & HAVE A NICE DAY! CLOSE THE DOOR! and about the meat being bad?? you can imagine working there for a few years being 17, 18, 19, 20 years old....and being my own boss...i would stop at home for lunch and take a couple steaks out of a case and eat a couple before going out for the day to work! i've eating HUNDREDS of these steaks and there's nothing wrong with them. they're just not worth the price most people pay for them......unless you pay around $50-$75 for the CASE of meat the independent contractor has....it's pretty much a rip off......most people pay around $150 for a case (which i told you the boxes & cuts earlier) and the majority of the cuts (25 of the 80 out of case) are chopped steak..(hamburger patties)....and total the CASE is only 19 LBS of sirloin......that's all i'm going to say about this.

I don't know which is more disturbing. That you buy meat from a door to door "meat man" or that you are upset you wrote a "post dated" check and it was cashed early.

The post dated check. In all honesty is no more than a "myth". You rely solely on the person receiving the check to keep their word and not cash it before the date you indicated. Check cashing is regulated by the Uniform Commercial Code in most states. The last time I checked this subject all states allow the bank to cash the check prior to the date you indicated UNLESS you have notified the bank in advance - If you do so they will flag your account and not process the check early.

Buying meat from a door to door "meat man" is questionable at best. With diseases like Mad Cow and E-coli tainted meat appearing routinely in this industry it is certainly not a practice I would endorse. For goodness sake, they could sell you horse meat and you would not know different.

I am not posting to slam you, I know you were trying to get a good deal, just be wary of any situation that seems too good to be true. If you want a good deal on beef or other meat, and want to buy large quantities you can go to a local fair, participate in the 4H auction and buy an entire cow. There are commercial butchering/freezer facilities that will process and store the beef for a fee.