So I guess technically this is Part III, but just go with it. I wanted this to be it's own post because this is where things got really bad. What's that? You thought ABF losing our cube was bad enough, well buckle up, my peeps!
Movers:
We did not have a very good experience with the company, "Moving Staffers." This is a company that both ABF and PODS use. It's a 3rd party company based out of Texas. All they do is charge you a lot of money to look up local movers and schedule them for you. The trouble is, because you do it through them, the movers end up being way more expensive than if you just called and set up the appointment yourself. Save yourself the money and trouble and just Google movers in the area you're moving to and schedule them yourself. I guarantee, you aren't getting any better service by going through Moving Staffers. Let me explain:
In Seattle, the movers that came were two hours late. I get that's sort of how movers are, but two hours is a bit excessive. As a result of them coming two hours late, we needed them to move quickly because I had the carpet cleaners coming. The guy (from EZ Movers) moves all of our stuff out into our apartment complex parking lot, THEN decides to wrap all that we needed wrapped out there (keep in mind, it is now pitch black since they came so late). He proceeds to then take is sweet ole' time packing us up. A job that should have taken 2-2.5 hours tops, he drags out to almost 4 hours!!!! Of course, he's getting paid by the hour, so he's fine with it. At 2.5 hours when I'm starting to get really concerned about the serious money we are shelling out for this horrible service he says, "Well we can stop right now if you want." Of course you can, now that all of our stuff is spread about our parking lot!
When it comes time to sign the service agreement, I've already left because it was now 9 pm (remember J, I had sort of forgotten about her in all of this mess and she had been with my sister since noon...bad mom moment), so K is signing it. I love my husband, but he is not as cynical as I am :). This guy tells him to put the number of hours worked (3) in the spot where the number of men worked (2) goes.
It was dark and K just did what the guys said, never imagining him to be lying. So we got charged for 3 men when we should have been charged for 2. That's an extra $215!! When I called Moving Staffers, they thought I was a crazy person trying to steal money from them and didn't want to refund my money! I'm pretty sure they had some comments on my file for being some kind of lunatic because each time I called they treated me more and more like a criminal. I was really proud of myself, I never once was rude or raised my voice (not that I usually do, but stress can bring out the worst in people), but they were treating me like I was screaming at them. I was beginning to think I was on some sort of "Punk'd" or "Boiling Point" reality TV show. It took 4 days and about 6 phone calls to finally get our money back.
As a result of all of this, I canceled our movers with them for Chicago. I did one Google search, found some movers (Pro Movers) that were close. They came out and did a phenomenal job. Took a 2 hour job and did it in 1. Since I had to pay for at least 2 hours they started unpacking my boxes until I finally had nothing left for them to do! They said it went so fast because I was organized. I knew exactly where I wanted all my furniture to go and, though I had to read the labels for them and tell them where stuff went, everything had a place to go right away. It pays to be organized!
I'll be shocked if anyone is still reading this! But I just had to get this out of my system and, for the next time we move, to remember all that I need to do!
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