ext_137904 ([identity profile] sps.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] merchimerch 2007-07-25 06:49 pm (UTC)

I don't know how it is there, and I don't know how it is now. But in my experience these organisations seem not to be moving companies at all, but marketing franchises; in the end you may wind up dealing with mom-and-pop businesses who could be fantastic and who could be abysmal, utterly at random. Worse, the people you deal with are the people who pick your stuff up. What happens next is that it is containerised and transported by contracted commercial shippers, then delivered to whoever happens to be the local agent at the destination, which need not have any relationship to anything. And I don't know anything that keeps them honest. Each time I have moved, I have gone to some effort to find people that I like, they have come and treated my stuff nicely, and then at the far end it may get lost in a warehouse, or they lie about the delivery times repeatedly, and in one case when it finally showed up they merrily threw things off the back of the truck onto the cement and drove off (my really, really nice speakers were never the same again).

So ... I hope someone else has something happier to say :-}.

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