Freejuice

I worked here for one day when this fraudster had a booth at Bay Street. He never paid me and when I was supposed to work the next time he said he «couldn’t make the juice» and had to go to a meeting so he would let me know when to meet him at the booth. Never heard from him again. He never paid me, never said anything. I reached out to him via multiple avenues over the next few days but nothing. I tried to reach out to Bay Street but they said they don’t do anything about that kind of thing. I was thinking of going to the booth to get my stupid $ 60 or whatever, then I looked up the owner, Perrin Vidal Clark and found this:
So I decided not to mess with such a twisted person. This dude is a serious con artist, and a jerk who also poses as a member of clergy. Whether or not that’s real I don’t know but I wouldn’t believe it based on his unchristlike activities. Don’t dick people over in this day of the internet!

Unfortunately, the owner is a fraud and never paid his vendors (us included) or his employees. He took a lot advantage of a lot of people and is apparently still around Oakland/​Berkeley. If you have been conned by him I recommend filing a complaint with the Alameda county district attorney’s office.
I don’t even want to know what was in those juices…

Don’t work with Free Juice /​Perrin.
I worked for Perrin for about a month as a designer. As soon as I sent an invoice he just stopped responding to my emails, phone calls and text messages. He asked for work to be done quickly so he could meet his deadlines — I did it and he never paid me.
Very unethical, bad business man. Don’t do business with this company. I wouldn’t recommend ordering from him either as he doesn’t seem to care if his clients get their juice.
I got the sense that he was acting like the company is a lot bigger than it is and that he wasn’t in charge of things but he’s the only person who seems to even be in the company at all.
I don’t like to write bad reviews, but I feel very violated and others should be careful. I understand companies struggle and it can be hard to pay people, but you should never treat people like this, and with no explanation it just left me wondering.

BEWARE: Owner has a record of failing to deliver

The most ridiculous person (FREE JUICE PERRIN) I ever depended on to deliver juices for my 7 day cleanse. Needless to say I am out of my $ 180.00. Waited for my juice on Monday, NO JUICE. Waited for juice on Tuesday, NO JUICE. Wednesday juice came at 3:00 PM. I finally called and said I wanted my money back because juices were never delivered on time. My cleanse was suppose to be 7 days and I got 2 days of juice both arrived late. The excuse that this Perrin come up with are so ridiculous. Here are some of the excuses I got.
1. Juice not on truck, your order didn’t get sent to kitchen, I am registering my daughter for school
2. I’m driving back from SF
3. My wife is sick…
Really??? Free Juice Perrin, you are absolutely ridiculous. You are basically running a scam. Do not purchase juice from these people, save yourself from heartache. And BTW I never got my money back. I am so pissed off!

Well the juice was fine.
However I would not recommend Free Juice to people who want to truly support their community in getting a local juice. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS COMPANY.
WHY? Their ETHICS…
Taken from the website:
«Free Juice, formed in Berkeley, California is a holistic approach to juice, promoting healthy living while supporting the local based economy…». Let’s just stop there.
«SUPPORTING THE LOCAL BASED ECONOMY»? I grew up in Berkeley and all around the East Bay and briefly worked for this company over the summer 2014 and I still have not been paid 2+ months later. If you want to talk about «supporting the local based economy» maybe start with, say, PAYING YOUR OWN WORKERS?!
Transplant businessman (Perrin) waltzes into the community, throw up a craigslist gigs add (WHICH IS STILL RUNNING) and can’t or won’t even pay workers for the hard work they complete. I recall another guy who came to the booth on my first day looking for money, which Perrin acted like was CRAZY. Now I see what may have been going on.
After being dodged and told I was mailed a check, still nothing. Eventually I was told the company didn’t have any money, but would this week. I got in contact, still nothing. Then today, I heard some more drama and lead-​ons but no monetary solution.
I would side with Oaklander A. to believe that they took their juice cleanse money and ran.
I smelled bullshit and ran, fortunately, otherwise I would really be in the poorhouse and down several paychecks, not just this 1.
Anyway, still waiting for these crooks to come clean and pay up. We can’t let «community members» get away with things like this.
To bring these bad vibes around an organic, local, healthy and consumable item is so petty. Karma.
Blessings.

This company took my payment for a juice cleanse ($ 180). They did not deliver my juice cleanse due to a million different ridiculout excuses one after the other. I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt and bent over backwards with patience as they are a small local outfit (East Bay)…but I gave up when they started only intermittently returning emails or texts and stood me up every single time (5 times at least) they said they would deliver the juice… so I asked for a refund. They sent it through PayPal but then PayPal told me their account declined the refund. They insisted it was a clerical error and offered me a check instead. I said OK and they confirmed this 2^nd refund effort was in the mail 2 wks ago and yet still not received, (when we are in the same city!). Now they won’t answer any phone calls, texts or emails from me. SO SHADY!!! And they are trying to delete any post I make to social media, just detailing the truth about what happened, I mean I have every single text and email we exchanged… I’ve been dealing with these guys for a month and a half and I’m so tired. Save your time, money and anxiety — this place has VERY questionable business practices! Where’s my refund, Dean and Perrin???

Freejuice purveys premade juices in 16 ounce containers (6). shipment didn’t arrive so couldn’t try it.
brew: FLUX, cold pressed coffee, (3) 12 oz.
–smooth, not much other flavorings. flavor not bold.
drips:
–shop, fridge empty…
–drove by ⁸⁄₁₁ shop looks cleaned out. closed?