Starving Students Movers
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Really, really bad experience: with 200$ additional bonus damage done on roofing of the apt building we moved on to. I would only recommend them for my worst enemies. We really REALLY should gone with the good moving company we had used earlier (american family movers, I think). You live you learn.
So what was the main problem? Bozos gave the quote without checking at all what size move it is, beyond asking for number of bedrooms in our current place. We did tell them that previous movers had underestimated effort, but they decided to not worry about that, and just send 2 guys (apparently was a 3-man job).
Going forward this will be immediate no-go for any company we use.
Well, on moving day, said 2 guys arrived on time (so far so good!), but their first comment was "gee, glad we took the dolly with us". You kidding me: thinking of doing a move without equipment?!
We should have told them to go home at that point, in retrospect.
50% of movers had experience and knew what he was doing. If only there were 2 more of those guys it would have worked.
The other one was, I guess, trainee-in-process. He was also burnt out after maybe 2 hours.
So, it took them close to 11 hours to finish the thing (this was a short distance move, less than 2 miles to move), instead of their expected 6 hours. They were trying to get some help after noticing overrun, but I guess company doesn't have spare students for short notice emergencies.
During latter half (unpacking), movers seemed to be participating in demolition derby. We have plenty of scratches in our furniture to remind us; they did manage to break couple of small things as well, but fortunately major pieces were sturdy enough to survive.
In the end we were happy to just get it over with: ended up costing us no less than previous professionally handled move, up front. Oh yes, and then this 200$ fix of root -- we didn't notice the damage, one of our neighbors did. This lead to a month of bureaucracy trying to get Starvings' insurance to pay for damage, to no avail (since our property manager was careless enough not to take photo before repairs -- eye-witness is not enough for the company).