Linton's SeafoodReviews 

Went to Lintons today to purchase a dozen steamed crabs and bc I paid with EBT I wasn't allowed to eat there.

We live 45 minutes from South Padre Island and haven't been able to get fresh Flounder for a few years to cook at home. I ordered Flounder Fillets and they arrived frozen. We're seniors and have had some great fish fries....the problem is the fish was mushy and I know how to cook fish. It makes me sad because we ordered quite a bit and not sure what to do with the rest, we certainly will not eat it. I wonder if it contains water to cause this? This blew our budget for 4 months, we live on social security and can't afford this type of waste.

I was researching where to buy Maryland crabs online. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, I moved to Florida and have been craving Maryland crabs. I decided to give Linton Seafood a try and I'm glad I did. Everyone enjoyed the crabs. We only ordered a half bushel and wished we had ordered more due to the size of our party. The crabs didn't last long. I will definitely be ordering more.

I bought a 1/2 bushel of lg. Crabs .when they came i unpacked right away. There was no cold in them
The bottom layer was under salty water . They weren't edible .the rest of the order was also wet. I worked for a large seafood house in Balto. When I was younger. We shipped locally . I made a mistake once of packing hot crabs in a airtight styrophome box. When they got to location people called saying they were dripping wet and soggy. This order from youall is very similar. I have bought crabs two other times and they were great. I am sorry this time was a bad experience.the other crabs I bought were fall crabs much fuller than these.

Several times in the past I've bought soft crabs as a gift and had them delivered out of state. The experience was always A+. Last Christmas I decided to give Alaskan King Crab. All seemed to go smoothly till the crab arrived at my address instead of where I was sending it. I called Linton's and explained the situation. They were very courteous on the phone and apologized for the mix-up. They told me to enjoy the crab and they would send an order to to the proper address or give me a refund. As yet the replacement order hasn't arrived but I feel it will. Experience was not all good, not all bad.

I ordered seafood from Lintonseafood. Ordered Aug. 29th. for Sept 1st. Delivery. That was our Labor Day celebration dinner. As of TODAY…..TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6th. I have NOT RECEIVED ANYTHING! NO RESPONSE to my emails, no NOTHING! Very DISAPPOINTED in them! You’re a big seafood company not living up to your PROMISE for delivery! Get your SH#t together! Veryy UNHAPPY customer!!! 😡😡😡

Having lived in Maryland, we need the occasional hard crab shipment. It was shipped UPS 2 day to us in New Mexico. On the day it was supposed to arrive, we got an email from UPS saying it would be another 4 days (weekend in there). I called Linton’s and they investigated. Then they reshipped the whole order by Overnight UPS flight, at their expense. I still expect to get the now-spoiled crabs in a few days to throw away.

I'm sorry to say I just completed preparing 12/dozen Prime soft crabs and I have experience a total disruption to my expectation to regarding results I expected! I've ordered from you folks in the past and was totally pleased.
Now ordering your special of crayfish and prime soft crabs the crabs received were not what was advertised, 12 prime ordered all but 2 were under size ranging from 41/4 to 41/2 tip to tip, and 8 were missing the large claw! Don't know how crayfish will process on 4th of July but as of now they are off the menu. My word to others is retracted. Have pleasant a 4th. Carl

on 09.02.2021 I specifically ordered 2 dozen Colossal Blue Crabs - 6 3/4" + point to point - price $299.00 or approximately $150 per dozen - WHAT I received were 2 dozen Blue Crab, none of which were 6.3/4 " , most were 5.1/2 " to 6" which does not even meet the criteria for Jumbo, 6" to 6 " - the cost of these crabs are listed at $89.00 to $79.00 per dozen - I have reached out to the company - and I received a phone call from Linton justifying the order stating that no other customer complained - to me they owe me a $120 refund - I promised not to give a bad review if they made good on the order but I have not received an acceptable response from the company - this is the 2nd time this has happened - same company - there will not be a 3rd - I am sure there are more credible crab business in Crisfield

Linton's have been good in the past, but recent shipment was wayyy off the mark. I ordered 4 maine lobster tails (7 oz ones), 2 doz little neck clams, 1 lb backfin crab, and 1 lb sea scallops. It arrived on time and frozen well, as usual. Now the problem...I'm thinking since I'm from WV that Linton's thinks I'm too stupid to know what a Maine lobster tail looks and tastes like. Excuse me but I'm a lobster fanatic and know the difference well. I got some kind of weird rock lobster looking things. I called and asked for owner or manager Oct 2, '21. So I finally got him on phone and explained the appearance. He kept talking me down "that's a Maine lobster tail". No it friggin' isn't I'm thinking. Then he tries to tell me how to steam them and I laugh my butt off as he tells me to steam them 18 minutes so I'm not sure from
what planet he lives. Now to the 'sea scallops. Some were the diameter of a dime and NONE were usual sea scallop size. Yeah this ole hillbilly knows scallops, too, and how to prepare. The backfin crab and clams were alright. So they sent the wrong things and then insulted my intelligence. I'm done with these jokers. I hope they go broke. They ruined my party and the embarrassment serving this crap to guests was excruciating.

I found this co/ site yrs ago and have been happy w/ the quality of Seafood that I receive.
Its important to know no 2 ppl have the same taste buds (I prefer to add my own seasoning/ spices) and am thankful they don't :))
Covid makes pricing interesting but when I can, YES! I will continue to get my crab cakes, and crab meat from Linton's
Thanks again
Offer discounts (when you can is all)

We have ordered over the years and until the last two orders I have been very pleased! My wife first started noticing the shell in the crab meat last order, I just ignored it BUT AS USUAL SHE WAS RIGHT AND AGAIN ON THIS ONE, damn it, get it done right, you have 75% of dissatisfied customers, does that not tell you something?????????????????????

Crab cakes had no flavor. For the price i expected them to be at least what you would get at a fine dining restaurant. Thought maybe they shipped the wrong item so called and was told i should have ordered the jumbo lump crab cake. They offered to let me send back for credit and send me the jumbo for a lot, i mean a lot more money. When i balked at giving them another try at that outrageous price they simply hung up. No goodbye, no sorry you were disappointed, no we want to make it up to you.......

Done with Linton's Seafood. They are not customer centric and have poor product at veryy expensive prices.

I am not going to sit here and bash these guys but the service could have been a little bit better. The shrimp was not that bad. Shrimp crawls to be specific. I am going to get it in that swing some better luck next time

THIS PLACE SUCKS. You will NEVER get what you think your going to get. Run away from the horrible company. This Kansas City family is done with this Horrible Company.

I've ordered from Linton's in the past, and its typically been a good experience. However my last experience has ended any chance of doing business with them again. Ordered Crab Claws and lump crab meat, paid for two-day shipping. Didn't receive my order for 11 days, and despite 5 phone calls and 3 emails to customer service, I received ZERO replies. Once the order arrived, despite the negative experience, we were eager to eat! And again we were disappointed, the jumbo lump crab meat we ordered might have been leftover claw or backfin meat, and was full of shell, taste was off, making it inedible. Then we went to the claws (stone crab claws), and again were extremely disappointed, the taste was terrible - bland and not fresh. We called Linton's again, twice, to speak about our experience, and have yet to receive any reply to our messages. Very sad that a company with prior decent experiences, has gone down hill this fast. We sent messages through their website, and direct from the order email, as well as the phone calls (can never get an operator or representative on the line).

5 pounds of King Crab.
3 tubs of blue jumbo crab meat.
3 jars of oysters.
$55 for "2 day" shipping to Colorado.
Normally I just go to the local grocery store
but this was for a special occasion so I splurged.
Not one single thing I ordered came frozen. Nothing!
The lids on the 3 jars of oysters were not sealed
so the juice was all over.
The 3 pints of crab meat were so full of cartilage
I wouldn't feed it to my dog - much less important guests.
King Crab had virtually no taste.
Too late to return of course.
So went to 3 local grocery stores and got what I needed.
Turned out perfect and I'll NEVER EVER shop with this
company again.
What a joke they are! What a rip off!
Don't get duped like me...
Perhaps they should stick with bait?

Ordered dozen crabs with light seasoning.Received old crabs that the meat was dried out and had heavy seasoning. Let them know and never received a response.Had to throw them out complete waste of money and crabs

I ordered 3lbs of their JUMBO LUMP CRABMEAT and noted that they ship FedEx 2 day. I received 3 plastic containers that appeared to be back fin lump and not JUMBO LUMP. Only two defrosted ice packs with the containers bouncing around. Very poor packaging. I opened one of the containers and the crabmeat smelled like auto fumes and tasted oily is the best way I can describe it. I opened the 2nd container and was blown away by the awful dead fish smell. If eaten I would surely wind up in a Emergency Room. I sent LINTON THREE EMAILS asking for a two thirds credit and received NO REPLY. I called TWICE and got no reply. STAY AWAY from LINTON SEAFOOD.

I have been a customer of Linton's Seafood for 10 years. I order from them about once a year or so...sometimes less, sometimes more. For Christmas this year I ordered 10 pounds of Snow Crab legs and five pounds of what was supposed to be "FRESH" colossal shrimp (fresh not frozen) as advertised on their website. The crab was appx 125$ and the shrimp was appx 125$ using FedEx next day express shipping for another 90$ for a total cost of right around 300$. We couldn't wait to receive this treat for the holidays. As expected the order was shipped on the 23rd of December and arrived promptly the evening or the 24th. We live in WY and were experiencing another polar vortex with temps well below zero so it was impossible for any kind of spoilage. In fact this is the best time of year to order food online. We began opening and unpacking what we thought would be the same high quality we had come to expect from Linton's...but wow! What a disappointment. There were two 5 pound bags of snow crab legs broken into dozens of pieces BEFORE packing. I have ordered enough crab online to know the difference between shipping damage and poor product. And on the bottom of the crab there was the "FRESH" shrimp...a five pound block of ice with shrimp in it. We were so disappointed to see all of this, but were hopeful that the flavor would make up for it....boy were we wrong. The day of the feast we gently steamed the crab to serve with butter. The crab was tough and salty and terrible. The shrimp was thawed gently under running ice cold filtered water to make shrimp scampi...after just a few minutes we could smell the stench of dead fish...a sure sign of poor quality shrimp...and possibly spoiled shrimp. We peeled and deveined the shrimp and easily threw away at least a pound of mushy, nasty shrimp and proceeded to prepare the scampi. We bake our scampi and as soon as the shrimp began to heat up the stench of dead fish filled the house. And then, when done...we took our chances and tasted the shrimp...OMG...iodine flavored, nasty fishy shrimp. They were no good. Everything got thrown away.

Needless to say, the first thing on my list after the holiday was to contact Linton's customer service. I sent them an email describing the above experience. I believe it was the next day I received a voice mail message 5 minutes long from Harvey Linton giving every excuse in the book and pretty much blaming me for the entire experience! He even went as far as telling me I didn't pay what I did for the shrimp! I sat dumbfounded as I listened to the voicemail. He offered to pay for me to send the shrimp back so they could send them to a lab to be tested! What? I have never heard of such a thing. It was obvious listening to this voicemail that he didn't trust a 10 year veteran customer and wasn't going to do a thing to fix the problem. Instead, what he did was lose a loyal customer and I will be sure to spread the word to stay far away from Linton's Seafood to everyone I know. If a business owner is unwilling to trust his good customers and is unwilling to mame things right it us usually an indication that they are trying to hide something. I will never do business with them again and I warn everyone to "order at your own risk.". I am saddened by an experience like this with a company that has been in business for over 50 years. I expected more...and got much less...in fact, I got nothing

Robert