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Fairfax News => Current News & Events => Topic started by: K. Greenia on August 09, 2011, 05:59:02 PM

Title: Sketchy salesmen, NY steak and seafood?!?
Post by: K. Greenia on August 09, 2011, 05:59:02 PM: I just had a visit from a couple guys in a black, older model pick up truck with 2 chest freezers in the back claiming to be part of the New York Steak and Seafood company which they say is opening a satellite office somewhere nearby. Think I should report them? I can;t imagine a reputable company would send sketchy individuals, no brochure, chest freezers strapped to the back of a pick up truck...
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Post by: monte198 on August 09, 2011, 06:27:15 PM: I would report it to local law enforcement just to let them know that they are back in the area. It has been a couple of years since I saw them in Fairfax they usually set up in Georgia.
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Post by: rod anode on August 09, 2011, 06:27:27 PM: did you get a plate number?
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Post by: mirjo on August 09, 2011, 06:58:35 PM: This is scary, sad, and comical. The thought of a couple of bozos driving around in a pick-up truck with a chest freezer trying to sell "NY Steak & Seafood" is something out of a National Lampoon movie. The fact that some people (may) actually fall for it is sad. That these creeps are going to people's homes is scary. What's their actual agenda and what's really in those freezers?
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Post by: Razzle Dazzle on August 10, 2011, 05:58:44 AM: Quote from: monte198 on August 09, 2011, 06:27:15 PM
I would report it to local law enforcement just to let them know that they are back in the area. It has been a couple of years since I saw them in Fairfax they usually set up in Georgia.

You know of them? And they've been "around" before?
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Post by: Henry on August 10, 2011, 06:10:39 AM: Interesting that they would be going around the same day as Jump-on-it's VT Steak & Seafood:

(http://www.vtgrandpa.com/photos/albums/forum_photos_2011/vtmeat_Main.jpg)
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Post by: LauriH on August 10, 2011, 07:51:31 AM: A wise woman once said, "Never buy seafood from a man riding around in a pickup truck".
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Post by: Chris Santee on August 10, 2011, 08:17:51 AM: wise indeed.

Seems I remember them from a few years ago too.
I didn't buy anything (I must have thought of that wise woman)
but I recall no complaints from some who did.

To be safe, get a plate, call it in.
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Post by: Mollyd79 on August 10, 2011, 08:25:33 AM: My dad bought a bunch of steaks from a traveling salesperson in MA and gave it to my husband and I for Christmas to 'stock' our freezer. After we cooked it a couple of times and noticed how gray and "unmeat-like" it was, I looked at the box and sure enough it had been expired for a couple of years!! YUCK!
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Post by: Stand Alone Defense on August 10, 2011, 09:37:41 AM: Pretty sure I recall my parents buying some seafood off these guys a few years back.
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Post by: klangelier on August 10, 2011, 10:09:52 AM: Probably not Josh! But the guy in the pick up with a freezer in the back did stop last week - I told him no thanks. It seemed very sketchy to me.
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Post by: mkr on August 10, 2011, 12:19:12 PM: They are definitely travelling around the area. I have some of my friends in local towns have them visit as well. I would definitely not buy from them as I am picky as it is in the store what I purchase :-)
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Post by: workingmom on August 10, 2011, 02:22:23 PM: I called the State Police about these men last week. They informed me they are legitimate and they have been in the Franklin County area for a couple of weeks. They have received a few calls about them and checked them out.
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Post by: Razzle Dazzle on August 10, 2011, 02:57:45 PM: Quote from: workingmom on August 10, 2011, 02:22:23 PM
I called the State Police about these men last week. They informed me they are legitimate and they have been in the Franklin County area for a couple of weeks. They have received a few calls about them and checked them out.

Good to know.
Title: Re: Sketchy salesmen, NY steak and seafood?!?
Post by: mirjo on August 12, 2011, 02:34:15 PM: Seems like an odd way to do business these days, especially with so many people saying no thanks to the whole truck/chest freezer shtick.
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Post by: Chris Santee on August 12, 2011, 03:45:49 PM: Just so everyone knows,
when I said "get a plate"
I meant a license plate.
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Post by: Mike Raburn on August 12, 2011, 11:47:28 PM: Seafood out of the back of a trunk?

Pass.
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Post by: Henry on August 13, 2011, 06:30:15 AM: The sketchy salesmen selling NY steak and seafood happens on the tail of:

Inspectors stopped a big truck hauling food in Vermont and found a big problem.

The Vermont Department of Motor vehicles says a truck from Tam's Trading out of Connecticut was carrying food to a business in Bradford. At a safety check point on I-91 they discovered the refrigerated truck was not working and the cargo box was 87 degrees. The health department responded. The food was thrown away.