Service Foods & Jefferson Financial Blue Ribbon Foods, Southern Foods, Inc., Service Foods ( Jefferson Financial)  Deceiving information full of lies to get you under contract, after having you under contract they do not care about the customers, ONLY about their pockets. LIARS! LIARS! LIARS! Norcross, Georgia

 

I received a call from a representative from the company Service Foods, Inc. The representative, a lady named Deborah, was the first person that spoke to me about this food delivery service. I should have followed my gut, when she insisted so much about setting up an appointment with one of their home visit representatives. We told her we were not interested but she continued calling, sometimes from private numbers, so we could not know who was calling us. Eventually we gave up and decided we would take a look at what she was offering. 

In less than two days a sales representative, named Joshua, showed up at our house.  He had a great personality and friendly attitude.  That day when he gave us the presentation was the last day I saw this charming attitude coming from him. The presentation went well, everything seemed to be so honest and I was very dumb to believe that there could be any type of honesty in this company.

In the presentation, he told us, that we could buy anything we could think of buying at a regular store, referring often to Kroger and Publix.  Service Foods said that they would find a product if they did not have it in stock and would deliver it to our house "at no cost".  We thought it would be a great idea, taking into account that it was healthy and natural food.  I have no complaints about the food so far, it seems to be healthy; however there is no way to know if the food is really healthy because their packages do not have a nutritional label with
facts and ingredients.

 During the 3 hour-presentation the salesman was really good at promoting the food but never really covered the financial part. He often gave me the turn around when I would ask about prices saying we will get to that. Joshua said it was all included in the great discounted price that I would be paying.  I asked a couple of times if I could cancel my membership at any time and he said I could do it, as long as I paid for the food already ordered.

The sale tactics are pushy, vague, and go around in circles to keep your mind off of that fact that you are paying $5,000.00 for a $1,000 freezer. I was constantly told bold face lies over the phone and these were verified by employees of this company.

We were told we had to buy their 'heavy duty commercial freezer' to buy food.  That was the only way they could guarantee the quality of the food and give us a good discount. They emphasize that it was just to help us (even though we never knew how much the food really was and got the turn around every time we asked) when we looked online the freezer turned out to be about $1,000.

 In the application I was asked for my social security number. Joshua assured us it would not be to open a credit account under my name, it was only for background check.  Now I come to find out that there is a loan made under my name.  We ended up with a debt we were not looking for, where it has a 15% interest for food and 20% for the freezer and
the service package with the gift.

 They are not willing to give us itemized prices for anything, but we did the math and each piece of meat comes out to be about $11!!! After they insisted over the phone that their prices where competitive and also lied to us telling us we could get anything we wanted, when it was only meat and some veggies.

 They also promised a free gift because of the discount we had. The salesman told me he would hook us up and try to give us the air purifier system that I need because of my allergies.  For their convenience, they told us that they do not want to push too much about the money so we would get our bill after a month of ordering. Oh! What a surprise! After about a month we got a bill for 6,000 for the freezer, service plan, and the supposedly GIFT!!) and 1,000 for the food.

 I got my contract out and read over it again, after reading it carefully I started to see some irregularities. Well, they tell you that you can cancel if you dont like anything, but when you look carefully at the contract, it says that you can only cancel within 3 days of purchase. The food and freezer had not even arrived in 3 days!! How was I going to cancel!? Now, the friendly representatives that were calling, insisting for us to buy their membership, are not returning calls and being rude to us and very arrogant e-mail responses.

We recently did some research on this company, and it works under other names and have the same web site. There are more complaints by other clients that are in the same situation we are. These people are scammers and do a great job at covering it all with their sale tactics.