Anyone ever had a nightmare experience with hired movers?

That’s why you buy a case of corona and pick up 2 “Texans” out front of Home Depot and pay em $50 each plus beer to load up the truck. Do the same once you reach your destination.

I'm moving next month and we were debating about doing it ourselves or hiring a moving company. This just sealed it.

That’s why you pay for the insurance. I used allied to move me from Shreveport back to here. I had a 6 month window where I was In an apartment that was furnished while I could a place etc. so my stuff went from my house to storage. Then from storage to my new place. Every piece of furniture I owned (which all was pretty new being I went through a divorce about a year prior) was severely scratched, cracked or broken. My fridge looked like someone beat it with a hammer. My dressers looked like they laid them on concrete and drug them on the tops, my desk was missing a leg and the backs and corners of my leather sectional was raw.

I didn’t understand how this happened as everything went into a box or was wrapped in moving blankets. It was explained to me that when it goes into storage, the blankets come off as they stay with the truck. Each truck is contracted through allied not property of allied.

The one positive was that everything boxed, I only had one picture crack which was amazing for the amount I have and how my furniture came out. I think they paid me close to 4K for the claim but your screwed as what can you do? It was cosmetic so they don’t replace the fridge. Can’t find the matching pieces of the furniture. So you learn to live with it I guess.

Years ago when I lived in apartments I went from the third floor to the third floor at a different place.

This scrawny little 150 lb guy picked up my heavy arse couch over his head and walked up three floors.

He had an equally scrawny girl with him and after they left I found a cap with blood/water in my bathroom. One or both had gone in there and was shooting drugs up


I was like no wonder that shrimp had the strength of five men

Nothing too bad but one time they didn't stack anything so they got about half done and said "we are out of room in the truck" and I had to get in the truck and start stacking to make room for them.

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Anyone ever had a nightmare experience with hired movers?

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Ohhhhh man... do I.

So we hired a company to move use 3 hours away... loading and everything went smoothly... nice guys (3 of them). Finally finish up around 3 that afternoon and are ready to roll out. I get to the final destination 3 hours later (because that's how long it takes).... they aren't there. No biggie... they probably stopped to eat and they are also in a moving truck. Well, 10PM rolls around and they are still no where to be found.... Kinda start getting worried...more pissed off. They finally arrive around 1130 (possibly smelling like weed lol), unload everything with me into storage unit and get ready to roll out. I pay them the money (something like 1700 or 1800 bucks, cash) and they leave. Well, we get a call the next day from the owner of the moving company who asks if we knew if his guys had left and if we had paid them? We told him yes and that we paid them the total in cash, as was requested by the owner (probably tax reasons...I'm cool with it). He says he can't get a hold of them.... Well, later that day he calls and said he filed a police report and that the police found his moving truck in downtown Houston with all of his moving material stolen and the 1800 cash gone as well, obviously.

I know... long story... but it was kinda funny and fricked up. Just glad that I got all my shite from destination A to B and in one piece.

And yes, I did panic and go through the entire storage unit to do a half arse inventory to make sure all my shite was in there... thankfully they didn't want our shite.

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just go with the big name moving companies, stay away from any, sons, brothers, 2 guys and a truck, fireman, cops, etc. movers

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This.

If you want amateurs moving your stuff, just rent a truck and pick up some guys in the Home Depot parking lot.

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1 younger skinny dude was sweating profusely while moving my stuff out of the truck and into my house. Then he would disappear into the restroom for like 20 min, and did so several times.

We asked for him not to come back since he just sketched out my family, didn’t work hard, and I though was high the whole time.

The second guy worked pretty good.