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Complaint Review: DIRECT USA FOODS - SAINT PETERSBURG Florida

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  • DIRECT USA FOODS 12061 31ST COURT N, SUITE A SAINT PETERSBURG, Florida U.S.A.

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My story is quick and it starts like this.

Today is 12/29 @ around 2:30pm a very nice gentleman came to my door. His name was Tony. He introduced himself and told me about his WONDERFUL company. He told me his company sells to resturants and wanted to give me the oportunity to purchase Prime meats at a discounted price. He was even willing to give me a senior citizen discount(I am 35) and a 1st time customer discount. LUCKY ME! So I wrote him a check for $168.00 (he said that he had a stamp so I didn't have to write the company name). I was so excited because now I didn't have to do any meat shopping for a while.

Next thing I know my husband started to cook dinner and when he cut the FROZEN packages open on the delmonico steaks he said they smelled funny and were slimy. YUCK! Well we figured we would cook the 4 steaks (one for my husband, one for me and 2 for my 3 kids to split) and see how they tasted. Needless to say all 4 steaks are in a ziploc bag for the company to take back along with all the other 5 boxes of steaks in my freeze.

There is no other way to explain the taste but I would not even feed the POOR or my dog that meat. It tasted processed and just thinking about it again makes me queezy.

By the way, I did have the runs this evening. I only had 2 small pieces of a steak.

I called Tony because he gave me his direct number and I left him a message and told him my thoughts about the product. I explained that I needed him to come back with MY MONEY and to take the product back alone with the 4 cooked steaks. I said that I was going to put a STOP payment on my check. I left my number and told him to call me right away. He hasn't called yet and it is 10:30pm.

MY husband was very angry and he told me not to wait to put stop payment on the check. So I called my bank to put a stop payment and I couldn't stop it because he had already cashed the check.

Within 3 hours this company sold $168.00 worth of dog food (DIRECT USA MEAT), and CASHED my check. Nothing like taking the money and running!

And the best part is Tony is giving me a discount of the $168 everytime I order from them.

By the way, this company has not heard the last of me. I will be contact the Orlando Sentinel tomorrow and sending my complaint to them so maybe they can get to the bottom of this.

Thanks for having a website for complaints and reading this and I hope no one else gets scammed by this company!!

Kelly
deltona, Florida
U.S.A.

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#7 Consumer Comment

Who buys meat from a truck?

AUTHOR: Horse Meat - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Monday, October 06, 2008

Who in this day and age A) Talks to a stranger showing up at your door and B) purchase MEAT from the back of a truck?!?

Sheesh...

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#6 Consumer Comment

Who buys meat from a truck?

AUTHOR: Horse Meat - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Monday, October 06, 2008

Who in this day and age A) Talks to a stranger showing up at your door and B) purchase MEAT from the back of a truck?!?

Sheesh...

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#5 Consumer Comment

Who buys meat from a truck?

AUTHOR: Horse Meat - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Monday, October 06, 2008

Who in this day and age A) Talks to a stranger showing up at your door and B) purchase MEAT from the back of a truck?!?

Sheesh...

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#4 Consumer Comment

Who buys meat from a truck?

AUTHOR: Horse Meat - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Monday, October 06, 2008

Who in this day and age A) Talks to a stranger showing up at your door and B) purchase MEAT from the back of a truck?!?

Sheesh...

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#3 Consumer Comment

What???

AUTHOR: Mich - (Japan)

POSTED: Thursday, July 31, 2008

So just because someone is nice to you, you are considering buying more possibly rotten food from this company? Wow...that Jim guy must be a really good salesman! I say you were lucky to get your money back now please learn your lesson and don't buy any more food from a stranger at your door.

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#2 Author of original report

YEAH! I GOT MY CHECK! THANX TO DIRECT USA- THIS TRANSACTION DIDN'T END UP BEING A NIGHTMARE!

AUTHOR: Kelly - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Thursday, January 12, 2006

1/12/2006- The check came today so I will be heading to the bank tomorrow.

This process did end up being a nightmare after all.

I had a hard time having someone stick to a date to come and pick up the meat. Finally a nice guy named Jim came out and picked it up. He explained to us a lot more about the company and he told us the company sells to millions of people yearly. He said that the company gets very few complaints and he had an explanation as to why the meat may have been bad.

He thought that maybe the salesperson, Tony may have taken out the product everytime he met with a customer and by the time it got to my family maybe it had thawed.

Oh well that is ok. Jim was great to talk to and I am glad he came and picked up the meat, and I am even happier that I got my check.

I spoke with the customer relations gentleman on Tuesday 1/10/2006 and he also explained about the company and I told him that I would be putting a very NICE UPDATE on this site, once I got my check. So here it goes!!!

I appreciate everyone at Direct USA for coming together and helping to get my problem solved(and my money back). Steve, Jeanette and Jim were all very nice to work with.

After meeting with Jim, we might even consider buying the fish package they offer.

We will see! Thanks again Direct USA and your company is not a scam.

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#1 Author of original report

THEY ARE COMING TO GET THE MEAT AND GIVE ME MY MONEY! MAYBE! ST PETERSBURG/DAYTONA FL

AUTHOR: Kelly - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Friday, December 30, 2005

Today 12/30/05 Spoke to corporate and they said the process is very easy. They gave me the number to the local branch and the gentleman there said no problem. The salesman will come back out, pick up the meat, and then corporate will issue me a check.
I hope it is that easy!

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