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[quote=Anonymous]Ugh, I’m so sorry OP. And I’m also sorry people are on here trying to figure out how it could be your fault or how you’re wrong instead of just sympathizing with you.

We had movers steal things too. It was a two part move… The day of the first big move to clear things out of our house to stage it to sell, a pair of wireless headphones that were connected to my phone went missing and so I played a song as loudly as it could, followed the noise and realized the sound was moving down the basement stairs on the person of the mover in front of me! (I froze and couldn’t fully confront the situation or make a direct accusation, and the guy then took a very long break in the front of the truck right afterward and obviously I never saw the headphones again.) The owner of the moving company was nice as could be but clearly doubted my story and kept reiterating how much he trusted his foreman (which I did too, and everyone explained that the guy who took the headphones was new to the team and the company). He told me he’d replace the one guy for the second part of our move, and to call him afterward if things were still missing after we’d fully moved in.

Apart from the headphones, there’s at least one box we never got back, containing items that were in the living room including my drivers license which I knew was there in a pile of papers that I’d set down in a hurry. When the movers came back the second time to move the remaining few pieces of staged furniture into our new house, my drivers license magically appeared on the window sill of our dining room. Mind you the house had been completely emptied for showing, except for a few staging items. Some other things from the living room—antique decorative items, a pillow, other things—are just gone. It’s been years and obviously every box has long been unpacked.

I never had the heart to call the owner back, who had just had a major surgery and was just starting to struggle with the rehab process. I also had a newborn (my first) and was just exhausted.

It was less about the actual stuff or its value, but feeling so taken advantage of, especially during a vulnerable, exhausting time, and then not being believed and having people try to imagine up all the creative ways I could be mistaken (“do you have shelves along your basement stairs that you’ve left stuff on?” “Could the sound from the headphone music been carrying from a room connected to your basement stairs?” etc)

Local moving company based in Sterling, recommended to me by my realtor neighbor who was handling the sale of our house.[/quote]

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