Movers

I finally got moved. You would think that as many times as I have moved it would get easier, it does not. Each time seems to get worse. I will start by telling you about Todd's Moving Company, the one I used to move me. Big mistake by the way, I had Todd to come out and give me an estimate as to how long it would take for him to move me, as they would only charge you by the hour rather than give me a flat rate which I would have preferred. I had already spoke to someone on the other end of the telephone who claimed to be his wife, I explained why I wanted an estimate because of what had happened to a neighbor of mines with another moving company. "Oh my husband would never do that," she claimed. Well judge for yourselves.

Todd's estimated 5 to 6 hours at $85.00 an hour, taxes included, with a two man crew. With every thing that I had I felt that was reasonable. I had other estimates that were cheaper, but as I did not know any of them had never dealt with any one of them I chose Todd because two friends recommend him. They had used him a year earliery. A big mistake on my part. I should have rented a Uhaul and moved myself. You see I decided that I could cut the time down to no more than three hours. I moved out all my crates, trunks, and almost all my boxes, there was only 12 boxes left out of about 75. I moved the dinning room table, and the chairs, I moved the end tables for the living room and all lamps.

Now here is the kicker. I took all beds down. The China cabinet I took a loose I had taken all draws from all cabinets, and dresser out and over to the new place. The only things the movers had to load was the mattresses, for the two bedroom and the bed room furniture, the three piece sofa from the living room, the china cabinet, which was in two piece as I had taken it apart, washer, and dryer, who a friend took apart, and two three wheels bicycle - which the mover did not know how to load; I had to tell him how to do it as I had done it before. He took five minutes trying to decided how he was going to load them. They did not have to wrap anything, at least they did not wrap anything, so the time was not taken for that. It took these two men 4 hours and 15 minutes to move these few thing 7 miles, something that if my grandmother was alive with her one leg could have done in half the time.

Now comes the bill. At $85.00 an hour Times 4 hours and 15 minutes ($85.00 X 4.15) should equal $352.75. you do the math let me know what you come up with. He came up with $367. I refused to pay it. I paid the price that I came up with. I am seriously thinking about suing them for the damage to my furniture. This blog is to warn all you people out there to be careful and maybe you can learn from my mistake, never go with someone who is not known, forget about friends recommendation, what worked for them does not mean that it will work for you. You have a lot of con artiest out there just waiting to clean your pockets out.

I have one more move to make in ten months if every things goes as planed. I will not be using these people again. I think I will stick with United Van Line, at lease you can get a set rate from them not an hourly one, that way you do not have two people taking 10 minutes to carry one mattress to an elevator that is three seconds from your front door.

Until my next blog, stay safe, keep an eye on your pockets, and be very careful who you trust, there are smooth talkers out there, they are pros.

Barbie Rants,