My husband and I were feeling confident that we had chosen a good moving company, based on the 5-star reviews. Unfortunately, that changed during the move, as we became very disappointed. After a series of events, we felt like we had been overcharged and expressed our extreme disappointment with Will, the "decision maker" of the company, who, in return, attempted to blame us for his company's neolithic incompetence. Based on what we know now, we would never hire this company for these reasons:
1) They did not come prepared for the size of our move, arriving with a truck not big enough to fit everything, even though they knew that our old apartment was 350 sq ft. This resulted in them having to send another truck and crew to move the rest of our things, adding an hour and a half, with us waiting to our time. The first truck and crew arrived at 8:45am, with the second truck and crew finally departing at 6pm. Will said they charged us from 9:30-5p, giving us an hour and a half complimentary; however, there were two of us, not one, that had to wait, one at each location.
2) You would think that a professional moving company in NYC would know the logistics of navigating the streets while moving people in and out of their apartments. Their crews consisted of 3 men, which you pay for; however, one of them stayed seated in the truck so they could avoid getting a ticket. The one in the truck could've helped carry boxes from the building to the truck while keeping an eye out for any parking cops. We never agreed to pay for someone to sit in the truck or to pay for inexperienced labor. We later discovered, the crew was fairly new to the business. With all due respect to the crew, this discovery provided an explanation as to why they, demonstrating a noticeable degree of uncertainty, moved slowly. However, this was at our expense, which further added to the time we were being charged. My husband helped them the whole time, in order to minimize time charged. A professional company would never send out an inexperienced crew without having at least one being experienced, providing training, while supervising the move; however, the experienced guy sat in the truck.
3) When my husband arrived with the second crew, they found all of our things from the first truck load in the lobby of our new apartment building and the first crew was nowhere in sight. Our stuff had been LEFT UNATTENDED! I had wondered why it was taking the first crew so long to come up with our stuff to our new apartment. When the second crew arrived, I learned from them that first crew had LEFT to go to another job, in which they failed to inform me, leaving our stuff unattended (and that was at 4pm).
4) Our boxes and furniture were not handled with care. We found a foot print and tear in our sofa and things that were neatly packed in boxes, had been completely emptied out and thrown into other boxes. The blame game was attempted again, by saying that we we had not packed very well, which is curious, because the first thing that Will said when he had come into our apartment was that we were among the few clients they've had that actually HAD things packed well, with everything in a box and labelled. The only thing they had to do was move the boxes, along with the wrapped furniture out of the apartment and into their truck.
5) Will would say that he gave us another team for free when we would have been charged double. Isn't it interesting on the amount of time that it took for them to do a 1-bd apartment (350 sq. feet) with 2 trucks and crews? If they had had a larger truck with an experienced crew, then the move would not have taken nearly as long as it did. My husband and I moved our studio apartment that was a 5-flight walk-up, BY OURSELVES, in 5 hours on the SAME STREET with a van, which required several trips back and forth.
If you are going to be moving and you are going to use these guys, then you better take notes and LOTS of pictures, because sadly, you cannot trust this company. read more