2 Sep 2014 · MoveAdvisor
1.0 out of 51.0
This company is dishonest and committed fraud with us. Xavier was the salesperson that called us to solicit our business. He quoted us a price that was based on estimate by us of what we had to move. We told him our house was 3200 sq ft and we needed a 40 foot trailer. He said ok, gave us a price which we thought too low. After talking with him he upped the quote by $1,000 which we still thought might be a little low but since we had told him we would need a 40 ft trailer we figured he should know. Set up date of June 20, 2014 for movers to be at our house. Two days before received a call from Tally who said movers would be there June 21, 2014. We told her we had it set for June 20th and couldn't be June 21st as buyers of our house would be doing walk through that day. Also confirmed a 40 ft trailer was being sent and she said no a 26 ft truck was being sent. Told her it was too small and she said not to worry they knew what they were doing. E mailed and called Xavier about truck size and he said he would take care of it and get back to me. The next moring the driver in a 26 ft truck showed at 10:00 am 2 hrs late and 1/4 full of other people's stuff. We told him it wasn't enough room..he assured us he could make it work. I placed e mails and phone calls to Xavier and Tally and no one answered either. At 11 pm that evening he pulled away from our house with one set of our mattresses strapped to the back of the truck and charged us for the full truck since mattresses were on back despite other peoples stuff being on the truck. He didn't take everything so we ended up having to scramble to get a trailer to move the rest ourselves. We had to out of our house in two days as it closed escrow that day so we felt we were stuck at the time. We were quoted $4500.00 and ended up being charged $6703.50. We were charged extra for packaging material for the items we were told they took care of in the price of the move. We packed our things ourselves except for a couple large furniture pieces we were told by Xavier were included in the price of the move. July 9, 2014 Jordan Logistics, a company Century Van Lines subcontracted with, (their website states they do not subcontract) shows up at our house in Twin Falls Idaho with a semi pulling two 40 foot trailers. They refused to even park their truck in front of our house and open the trailer doors until we paid them the balance in either cash or postal money orders (you cannot put a stop payment on a postal money order). They only allowed a little bit of space at the back of one of their trailers for our things so they did not bring about 1/3 of what Century Van Lines moved from our house. They would not return any portion of the money we just paid them when requested by us since they did not have all our things and Tally at Century Van Lines said she did not authority to have them do that and her boss was on vacation. We tried to work with Century Van Lines from July 9 to August 26 to get the remainder of our items but they were trying to be cheap and trying to piggy back them with another move. We finally drove to Las Vegas rented a one way trailer and pick up our things ourselves. There is much damage to our furniture and things..gouged, scratched, broken, dented..it really is beyond belief. Centuiry Van Lines Contract states they were to deliver within 21 business days of picking up our items or they needed to pay us $35 per day for everyday until they did deliver. To date we have not received any money from them or a refund of our moving fees we paid them. The warehouse is not anything like on their website. It is just a huge open warehouse, now shelves, no organization to it. It is stuffed full of people's household goods. They have everything stacked in a pyramid on pallets and shrink wrapped. There must be many like us that did not receive their goods. It was crazy. When you see how it is stacked it is no wonder all the damage to things. I wonder how many of us have been frauded by this company? If you look their corporation up on the internet it is a one man operation..the same man is the owner, president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and board of directors with no one else. They are a horrible moving company that needs to be stopped from frauded others. The information on their website is a total sham. What they have on there could not be further from the truth of our experience with them. We filed complaints with The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (we have not heard back yet), the Nevada BBB (who has contacted them for a response), the Idaho State Attorney General's Office (who has contacted them for a response before it decides how to proceed) and the Nevada Attorney General's Office (we have not heard back from them yet). We also plan on filing a complaint with the California Attorney General's Office since we signed the contract in California and our furniture was picked up there, small claims court and hoping to get some tv media attention. Any of you that also had bad experiences with this company may also want to do the same. While we want a big portion of our money back since we had to not only move a portion of our things ourselves, we also had to travel to Las Vegas to Century Van Line's warehouse and pick up a big portion of what they did move, we want to keep them from doing this to anyone else. They are not the company they portray to be and do not hold up their end of the contract. Any of you missing your things should take a trip to their warehouse in Las Vegas. If you wait for them to deliver, it may never happen. From what we could see, we do not believe they have the number of trucks and size of trucks to do the business they are signing up. So beware of doing business with them. They are the type of company that tarnishes all moving companies. We wish we had seen this website before signing up with them. Also the BBB's rating of them was A-..what a joke. One last thing..we also are missing some things that will probably never be found. If you saw the warehouse, you'd understand why. One pallet of our goods was color coded wrong and if I had not recognized some items sticking out the top we would have left without those items, one of them being our refrigerator we had been without for over 2 months! Beware.
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