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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am sorry. Do all you can to leave reviews, put out word of mouth, etc etc.

My story/avoid if you don't want the trauma:

Man, maybe 20 years ago, we had a bad move. We were in grad school/had always had friends help us move/or move ourselves and this was the first time we paid for movers. They arrived late/unprepared and had not eaten. Stupid us, we made them breakfast. Later- stupid us- we bought them pizza for lunch at their request. Later, they then told us they needed to stop for lunch on the way to the new home until we reminded them we had already bought them lunch "oh, right!" they giggled.

They scuffed furniture, dented walls, tried to get into boxes (we were clear we needed only moving- not box opening), including me finding one guy alone in our new bedroom going through my lingerie multiple times. I realize this sounds crazy, but 20 years ago you didn't whip out your phone and catch/record bad behaviour like today.

And one literally broke an antique couch in front of my eyes- his back was to me and he faked that he got dizzy and was about to pass out so I rushed forward to help and then at his request, I ran to find a cup to get water for him- when I came back he was suddenly recovered and moving items in an other area. I worried about him and insisted he sit for a few minutes as he sat looking oddly guilty. I realized later that he had fake-swooned to get me out of the room and he had thrown a couple of the legs under the couch and put a small box under the couch to keep it from tipping over.

It was like babysitting the horniest, laziest, stupidest teenagers you have ever seen- and they were adult men in their 30s and older. I later worried that these men knew where we lived and would return.

We kept finding broken/damaged items- and midway through the move, a new neighbour came over to report (in front of them) that he saw them throwing boxes into our garage on the ground- again they happily giggled and apologized.

Then, after the second call/verbal agreement over what amount of damage $ the owner would cover, I called back the third time, told them that we were now recording more damage- so could no longer agree on the price until we had gone over everything. He started to get snippy at me and accused me and DH of wanting to rip him off for money.

I don't know how I had the confidence at that young age to tell him that I could break my own sh!t for free if I wanted to save money, but he wasn't sure what to say after that so we got quiet and several weeks later we settled for a couple hundred if we 'didn't tell anyone'.

I am still angry. We have never paid for movers after that- just did it ourselves, used PODs and used the next moves as opportunities to purge /pack well every time and stay organized and on top of appropriate move techniques to make the unpacking much easier.
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