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sethammons05/04/20252 repliesview on HN

My movers took our pre-packed boxes, loaded them up, and were to meet us three days later six states over, in Montana. We couldn't use PODs because they wouldn't deliver to anything closer than about 90 minutes away.

Dumb us. Should have done that. It took the company two months to finally deliver our possessions. They filed bankruptcy during the situation and lost the truck for a while and we were about to have to go through the courts when they finally found some guy with a bad neck to drive and nobody to unload. They wrote our names with permanent marker on some things, broke others, a few boxes were never seen again. But the damage was within some contract provision I missed that said something about up to $1k to be submitted to them for coverage which half they denied.

Subcontractor movers. One of the worst "professional" experiences of my life.


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johnisgood05/04/2025

Is this an American thing? I never experienced such issues here in Eastern Europe. We called a guy with a truck and got it delivered as-is.

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greenavocado05/04/2025

What was the cost before the troubles began?

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