cfbutler31
Senior Member
i was at my buddies house this evening eating some lowcountry boil and watching outdoor channel, when the phone rings and its happy valley processor in thomson, ga. he dropped a deer this weekend, a nice 10 pt buck. asked that it all be processed as sausage, and he has been going there for years. well they told him his deer was ready to be picked up, and it would cost $48. now that may be a reasonable price, but he skinned the deer and gutted it at the club, and deboned the hams, which along with the front legs, not deboned, were given to them make sausage. he took the backstraps and tenderloins out and took them home. well the owner of this happy valley told him that if his deer meat weighed more than 31 lbs, that the fee was 0.65 cents per pound. he had 29 lbs, and because of that, he was charged an extra $30 just for being off a couple of pounds. well thats a crock, if i ever heard about one. he said he has never paid over $30 total for just getting sausage and this business about 31 lbs or more was never told to him in all the years he has been taking his deer there. well the owner told him he could come get his deer for $28, and he would put him on his blacklist, that he would write his name real big on a board and would not allow him to bring anymore deer to his processor, like that would happen again, and that he didn't need his business, he just turned away 50 deer today, today being thursday, so i guess not only is he a bad business owner, possibly a teller of untruths as well. if he doesn't need the business, well i know why now, and it ain't nothing to do with too many deer brought to him. well my buddy said whatever, and said he wasn't going to get the deer, i told him to call that guy back and give him a piece of his mind and where exactly to put that ole deer, but he wouldn't do it, i tell you what, i can't believe a business owner would treat a client like that, i know i wouldn't be in business if i treated my clients like that. some folks may have had the rosiest, prettiest experience with them, but i tell you what they reared their ugly head this evening. i haven't ever taken any deer to that place, and after tonight, i guarantee all of you, you won't catch me in that place, wherever it is. i am an easy going guy, but this fella at this processor has just about crossed the line treating folks the way he did tonight. they done my buddy wrong, and when they do that, they done me wrong as well