I hired this company because they had such great reviews and were very quick with communication in order to quote and schedule our move. However, it was all down hill from there, eventually turning into a complete nightmare.
We arranged a move from Memphis to a small town in Far East Tennessee. Four days prior to the move, I messaged the company through Thumbtack in order to confirm that they had a large enough truck. They said they didn't need to view our apartment before the move. I wanted to make sure everyone was prepared, so I sent pictures of our entire apartment (excluding two bicycles that were in an apartment bike storage area). Once the movers said they had 1 hour left of packing, I left ahead of them so I could get my animals settled. My fiancée stayed behind with them to supervise. Five hours later, the truck was still not loaded, and I was told everything would not fit. I called Mike and requested that he rent a trailer or another truck for the remaining items, but my request was ignored. Instead, he told his movers to move things around in the truck so certain large pieces could fit, but would result in different, smaller items still being left behind. At this point, the movers were getting highly frustrated and it was made clear to me that items were being left behind no matter the circumstances. At that point, we said the movers could depart with the completely full truck, with plans that we would work out arrangements for the other items. Halfway through the drive, we were told that the movers were 1 hour away from the destination, which was impossible as my fiancée left at the same time as them, and still had 3-4 more hours to drive. That is the when we discovered that they were given a completely incorrect address, and were actually headed to a town 300 miles away from the correct destination. The movers finally arrived at 3:30am and finished unloading the truck by 5am.
At 8am, Mike called me to request a payment that was $300 high than our quoted price (which we were guaranteed would never increase.) I spoke to Mike for quite a while in order to arrange further transport for the items that were unable to fit in the truck. He arranged for our items to be moved into a storage unit until they could load them on another truck they had driving in the direction of our destination. At that point, I paid them the full price, including the extra $300.
I returned to Memphis 5 days after the move. At that point, I took pictures of everything that had been left in my apartment and sent them to Mike. Mike then notified me that there were too many items, and they could not fit them on the planned truck. They gave us no options at that point, and we were required to book another truck that would carry our stuff directly to our destination. They informed me that I would have to pay them the same price again for the second load. I scheduled the second move and called multiple times asking for Kevin (the owner). None of my calls were returned.
On the day of the second move, the movers called when they were one hour away from my East Tennessee home requesting I pay in advance. At that point, I said I would not pay until Kevin returned my phone calls. Of course, the return call occurred very promptly now that they had money on the line. Kevin and I could not come to an agreement that suited both of us in that moment. At that point, they proceeded to hold my items hostage until I paid them for the second time. Kevin agreed to set up a meeting with the movers who had been present and conference call me in, planned for two days in the future. I begrudgingly agreed to pay in order to have them release my items.
The day of our meeting came, and not surprisingly, neither Kevin, nor any of his employees, called me for our meeting. Since then, they have ignored all my calls and voice mails. They spent their entire time trying to blame me for the fact that they did not rent a large enough truck. They accused my fiancée of not allowing them to fill the truck to the brim, which was a lie.
At the end of the day, we were quoted a fixed price of $1595, and we ended up being forced to pay them almost $3400.
Overall, if you want professional movers, you should hire professionals. AVOID this company at ALL COSTS. read more