capital meats delivered to my house for years, and the meat was good, , now occasionally i had some bad meat, but i never blamed someone else because i couldnt cook it right. half of u probley dont even know that you cook a steak frozen right outta the freezer. and another thing is it doesnt matter what meat you buy, in store, buthcher, grow your own, if you dont cook it on low heat and let your busy life's take control of your cooking temps then you'll always have a "tuff" steak. if you eat at a resturant and you dont like it, do you honestly waste your time complaining about it, or do you go to a different resturant...my point.. the guys that go door to door are just hard working men trying to make a living, if you buy from a capital van, you will be happy, ..all these complaints are from people who work for other meat companys and are try'n to put the best down, .. if this company had such bad food as you all say, , then how have they been in business since 1997 is this really the way to spend your time, just come to capital and we will cook you a steak and make your own determanation.. or e-mail me @ [email protected] dont believe these people they work for company's that TRY'N to put us down. i wont buy nothing from no one except the best CAPITAL MEATS TAKE CARE READERS AND GODBLESS

Sunday, December 26, 2010, I was sitting with my family when a load knock and numberous rings on the doorbell. When we opened the door a rough looking woman asked for our help. She said that she was made to come out door to door and sell a product. She was driving in a small truck with Capital Meats painted on the back. The truck had lots of color with Capital Meat logo on the side. She was very persistant and would not take NO for an answer. We were very polite to her but she continue to to say that she was very desperate and wouldn't normally do this expecially over the holiday. She said she would give us the meat at cost $140 if we could please help her out. She even said that she would take down all of our Christmas decorations if we bought this meat from her. She even said that she would come in and cook some meet for us. My husband was the one who answered the door and I never showed my face. I thought that was very odd. After he told her no for the fourth time she finally ran to her truck and speed out the driveway. I got up at looked out the front window and saw the vehicle speeding down our street and there was another guy in the vehicle with her.

The sales tactics were pushy but in the end it did work because I purchased steaks, chicken and seafood from this company. The quality of the meat is LESS than satisfactory. Does it satisfy your "meat" craving - maybe, but you're much better off purchasing at your local grocery stores (Giant, Safeway, etc). The steaks look good in the packages but one you thaw them they are so thin (the NY strip/Tbone) that a minute on the grill seems to cook them through. The only thing that was decent was the bag of uncooked shrimp. The chicken was ok but very small portions once thawed.
Tried the company - didn't like it and won't ever buy again. Have told all our friends too because they were also "hit" up by these sales guys too. The sales guy was nice so no problem with him but the food just wasn't good.

The Maryland/DC Better Business Bureau rates this company as an "F".

A salesman from Capital Meats approached me in my driveway with a hard sell on the meats. I politely declined numerous times. As he returned to his truck he yelled an insulting remark, to the other person in the truck "You were right about the people in this neighborhood", then got into the van and sped off at a very high rate of speed up our residential street. What type of professional salesman insults his potential customers? It would not matter how good the meat was, I would not buy from this company and will make sure everyone I know is aware of this.

A salesman from Capital Meats has come to my door at least half of a dozen times since I have lived in this house (almost 3 years). The first time, they caught me coming in from my car and stopped me. The men were in very baggy pants (enough that I could see their underwear) and they had gotten out of an old pick up truck with a freezer strapped to the back. I saw their car magnet that said Capital Meats and I stopped them and told them that we were vegetarians and not interested in meat. That should have been enough to get them to leave, but they followed me to my door anyway and proceeded to hard sell me this meat.

There is no way I would even buy meat from that shady looking pick-up truck- even if I did eat meat. The men proceeded to lay meat all over my porch (ew!!) and then he even tried to come in my house (even put his hand on the door and tried to open it) so he could see what kind of freezer I had. I eventually shut the door and locked it. Since that time, they have come back several times.

I no longer answer the door (although once my husband did and he says they were rude to him when he declined their product). When I don't answer the door, they stand out there knocking and ringing for a very long time! It is borderline harassment!!! They don't have any business knocking on my door anyway, because I have a large NO SOLICITING sign. I wouldn't mind if they rang once (even though I already told them we will never want their product) and left, but they RING and RING and RING! I have a sleeping baby, barking dogs, it is such a disruption!!!

I called their Baltimore office (where these salesman are from) to make a formal complaint. The lady who answered said she was the office manager. She wanted my address but I was hesitant to give it to her because I feared backlash from the shady looking 'salesman.' I asked her to at least enforce a ring-once policy but she said she couldn't do that due to hard of hearing elderly people (who they should leave alone anyway!!!). So I asked about a policy of not ringing the bell of people who had a No Soliciting sign and she said she could not enforce that either because those signs are mostly for religious people.

What??? My sign is to deter annoying, relentless salesman! I told her if they stood outside of my door ringing and ringing again, that I would call the cops. She proceeded to just talk over me, telling me she wouldn't let me speak bad about a great company (Everyone on my street hates to see that nasty truck pull up!!) that she has worked for for 6 years and she told me I must have a miserable life and hung up on me. So much for making a formal complaint. I wasn't even rude to her, as I know *she* was not the one knocking on my door, but she must have been very upset that I did not want them to come to my door and that I wouldn't give her my address.

If this is such a great company, then the least they could do is update their POS trucks with coolers strapped to the back to nicer looking freezer vans/trucks that look like they actually keep the meat cold! And they could enforce some sort of dress code to the salesman so they look less like bums and more like professionals. And lastly, don't be so rude and pushy and don't harass people! Many of my neighbors have told me that the salesman are rude if you say no. The neighbors who did buy their meat, regretted it as they were flavorless, tough, cheap cuts of meat.

Don't buy from this company!!