calibeef

I wish I would have went with my gut feeling on this one. Just like the other posters, a representative came up to me as I was taking out the garbage. He stated that he was delivering meats to my neighbors and wanted to show me the product. He brought out 4 boxes of meat and told me they retailed for about $ 500 but because he was in the neighborhood, he could give it to me for about half the price. I originally declined… the meat is more then I spend om my food budget for 2 weeks, but he dropped the price again, explained that it is high quality meat and comes with a 1 year guarantee. Still pricey but I thought, for high quality beef, I would try it out.
I put the meat in my freezer, took 4 steaks and put it in the fridge to thaw. The next day I took the individually packed steaks out, cut open the sealed bags, and out came this slimy steak. I thought that was strange, but it smelled ok, and I just thought that it was some product they put on it to avoid freezer burn. I washed and seasoned them, put them on the grill… I noticed that there was quite a bit of grizzle/​fat on the steaks, but thought I would cut it off after it cooked, and sometimes fat can be a little tasty. Not this fat/grizzle…it was hard, like cartilidge and extended into the meat. I had to cut a great portion off to get to the edible meat. That’s when it gets weird.
The meat was a strange consisitency… very soft… not in a tender meat kind of way, like a weird, what kind of meat is this kind of way. My husband, who is not a picky eater, said to me…“I’m not feeling this meat, what kind is it?”, I told him I wasn’t sure, (because the indvidual packages to not tell you and I could not remember), but I was questioning if it was actual beef. Now, I have had steaks… all kinds of steaks… but I have never tasted anything quite like this. I refused to eat it, I fed itto my cats… they LOVED it. If this is «high quality beef», then I will pass.
I tried to call the company. They supposedly have a 1 year guarantee. The # on the flier is not correct. It was some guy with all of his kids screaming in the backround. I asked him if this was CALIBEEF… he did not know what the heck I was talking about. I tried to call the rep. «Rick», to explain my displeasure. He gave me his cell # so I could just go directly thru him. Left a message, no return call yet. I just want this meat out of my freezer, I posted a complaint with my Credit Card company, but I am not sure if anything will be resolved. I feel stupid and I am upset that I fell for this. My biggest concern is what the hell did I eat last night because it sure in hell wasn’t beef!

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Do not buy from these people! A salesman drove up in a truck a few hours ago, rang our doorbell, and convinced my husband to buy their «Beef Steak Assortment» for $ 230. That box holds 18.75 pounds of beef. That means that my husband paid $ 12.25 per pound — and of those 18.75 pounds, 6.69 pounds are hamburger. $ 12.25 per pound for steak is bad (even New York strip and ribeye costs less at the regular supermarket), but $ 12.25 per pound for hamburger is ridiculous.
And wait, it gets worse. My husband should have read the labels on the boxes. For example, the label on the Boneless Beef Ribeye Steaks box clearly states, «Tenderness enhanced with up to 19% of a seasoning solution. Solution ingredients: water and less than 2% of dextrose, salt, sodium phosphates, modified food starch, corn syrup, natural flavors, soy sauce (wheat, soybeans, salt), hydrolyzed soy protein, butter flavor (maltodextrin lipolyzed butterfat flavor), sugar, hydrolyzed corn protein, vegetable oil.» The labels on the other steaks also say that the steaks have been «enhanced» by a similar (though not identical) list of ingredients that I don’t want to eat.
The salesman asked $ 400 at first, then lowered the price as if he were doing my husband a deal. When asked repeatedly how many pounds were in the assortment, the salesman didn’t answer. And the salesman said several times that the steaks were «aged so that they you aren’t paying for water weight.» Aged, maybe. But the labels say that water has been added to the steaks, so the second part of that claim is a definite lie.
So, WAY overpriced, and WAY under-​quality = RIP-​OFF. With a side-​helping of LIES. Hard to swallow.

My husband was working from home on the day that these guys came knocking on my door — they got lucky because I never answer the door since I have two children to take care of. I have regretted that terrible stroke of luck ever since.
We purchased pork and beef from them. The quality is not so great so the price had to be low. Unfortunately, their packaging is terrible. If you enjoy having blood leak all over your fridge from defrosting the meat, by all means use their meat. Their packaging is full of holes, so that probably affects the quality of their meat somewhat. These guys say that all the detractors are their ex-​employees, well I will tell you that I am not an ex-​employee and I have cleaned up pools of blood from their meats way too much!

Stay away… these guys are liars… Bad quality meats at high prices. If you want your food delivered, use
. If you want expensive QUALITY meats, go to a farmer’s market or whole foods.

I purchased a package of steaks through CaliBeef from Groupon.
I wish I could tell you how the product was, but I never received them. One unanswered email, and one unreturned voicemail, and three weeks after submitting my order via their web site I get a phone call to setup a delivery date.
I end up stuck in traffic and miss my delivery time by 15 minutes, I assume the delivery guy is late since there’s no note one my door, and no call to my cell for access to the condo complex. I call later that evening to see if I indeed missed my delivery, and to reschedule… I get voicemail. I call again a week later, I get voicemail.
Over a month later and I still have not been able to reach anyone at their «office».

Not reliable.