West Seattle Blog… » 2 3 door-to-door alerts: Meat and meet

by WSB

(Tuesday) afternoon a young man came to my door and asked if I would like some free steaks after…as the stories goes….he had to make a “big delivery” in the neighborhood, and had these “left over”. It seemed very, very suspicious…and as it turn out he returned with a big box with his friend who I can only describe as “the Closer” (think Glenn garry, Glenn ross). The two of them then showed me some excellent cuts of frozen meats….all of which I could purchase. Suddenly my free meat had just disappeared! All that was left was meat that I could buy.

I let them know I was not interested in paying for meat, but if they wanted to leave some for free I would be happy, but no $ for them. This angered “the closer”. He basically politely insulted me and walked off with the meat. Even those I had a less than cordial exchange with his partner, this guy who had originally promised me the free beef told me “he didn’t like to see unhappy customers” or some such…and offered me an even sweeter deal. I asked for a business card which he did not have, and said it was “pacwest foods”..

There is a company online by that name in the meat-delivery business. The writer says he’s going to contact the state Attorney General’s Office ; we have a note out to the e-mail address listed for the company by that name to ask about this.

ADDED 10:34 AM: Marianne sent this a few minutes before we actually published this item, and we just saw her note now:

They come to the door claiming that someone in the neighborhood didn’t take their full order and they have extra meat to sell. At first the guy said they were stranded or stuck. Then tried to explain he meant, stuck with meat. Right. This isn’t the first time this has happened. Unfortunately, yesterday was hot and I had all the doors open with fans blowing.