I will preface this review with the information that I have moved 12 times over 5 states in the last 20 years. I know what a successful move with a quality moving company looks like. This is the worst moving experience I have ever had. We chose this company in part, because of the decent ratings they had on various websites. I cannot provide the same kind of rating. The following list details the issues that we experienced this past Saturday.
· One of the three men on the moving crew showed up high on drugs. We know this because my husband asked him about his erratic behavior, and he admitted to my husband that he was high. We were not impressed that he was moving our belongings and in proximity to our young daughter while under the influence of an illegal drug.
· The estimator on the phone, the estimator that came out in person, and the moving crew assured us that a 26-foot truck would be enough. We questioned this each time and was told not to worry. Well, even though we moved several pickup truck loads of items ourselves before moving day, not all our things fit, we had three more truck loads to take on our own after the moving truck came. The solution to the issue from the company was that we move it ourselves and not make any effort themselves to fix the mistake they made.
· Part of the agreement was that the moving crew would take apart furniture and put it back together at the new house. They did not have tools with them to do this when they arrived. We had to dig out our own tools for them to use. They were not prepared at all for the expectations.
· The agreement indicated that mattresses would be put in plastic bags for protection while being moved. This did not happen.
· The crew, when unloading the truck, were carrying single boxes and light pieces instead of using a hand truck to move several boxes or items at a time. It felt like they were purposefully taking longer to get paid more.
· The 30 minutes it took for the moving crew to communicate with their supervisor and decide they were not going to fix the issue was charged to us. We should not have had to pay for the time it took them to decide they weren't going to fix their mistake.
· They broke the leg on my upright piano because they did not know how to move it. They tried to carry it instead of using a dolly, as they should have. When they broke the leg, they also cracked a tile on our front porch quite badly which will need to be replaced.
· There were several items that we were having dropped off at a storage unit. We had to tell them 4-5 times which items and when they got to the storage unit, they had not organized the packing of the truck to be able to quickly remove those items, they had to partially unpack the truck to get the items off for the storage unit. Not everything was removed as it was too far back and ended up having to go to our new house to wait for us to take it to storage ourselves.
· We were moving about an hour away from our old house. My husband left a few minutes after the moving truck and that is how long it took him to get to the new house. The moving truck took over two hours. While they were probably going more slowly, this is unreasonable. When we asked if they stopped somewhere on the way, they initially said no. Then, later, one of them told us that they had stopped off for a break on their way to our house. We were charged for this time they took a break and were not impressed at the initial lie. It felt like they were trying to inflate their time to increase their pay.
· My daughter's desk never made it to the new house. We looked everywhere, not at the new house, not at the old house, not accidentally put in storage. No idea what happened to it.
· The two younger members of the moving crew expected us to purchase them drinks and lunch as well as asking my husband for a cigarette multiple times. We were happy to provide water, but other drinks and food should have been their own responsibility. It wasn't that they even just hinted around about these things, it was that they flat out asked for it. We probably spent an additional $40 on them for these items.
· Once we had paid, while they were still in the house, one of the crew members started asking the driver if we had paid in cash and how much we had tipped as he wanted his money. While this is not necessarily damaging to our moving process, it was very unprofessional.
· I did speak to the supervisor about my issues. He did listen to my concerns and seemed to be concerned about our challenges. He did, though, spend a few minutes lecturing me on the fact that they were only willing to help customers who behaved a certain way, and that they would not help customers, no matter what issues occurred, if the customer expressed frustration beyond what the supervisor felt was appropriate.
· The supervisor did advise that he was unable to do anything to compensate us for the issues we experienced but would have the owner call us the day after the move. We never read more