6 Nov 2018 · MoveAdvisor
1.0 out of 51.0
A year and a half ago I contacted Maple Leaf Movers during peak moving season and they gave me the best quote, one truck, three guys, $1800. I said perfect. They show up an hour late, only two guys, and a less than enthusiastic attitude. Takes them the better part of the day to load, everything was all boxed and wrapped for them, just a matter of loading the truck. Finally left and advised me they were going to get the truck weighed and then offload at the storage unit all my stuff was going into. Took them till 10 pm to offload, and while they were offloading they smashed the glass top to my master bedroom dresser. It had been shipped from Dubai and never got broken but Maple Leaf Movers took no care with the glass top and stood it on its end, resulting in it falling over as the mover walked away. As it was getting late they started just throwing my stuff up on top of other things of mine until the truck was empty. Then their $1800 quote doubled to $3600 with an excuse of not expecting as much stuff, the total weight was just under $10,000 lbs. needless to say I was upset at the price. As far as the smashed dresser, I talked to their boss and he said he was only responsible for any damage by weight, so all I would get would be $50, which I never received. Now comes the eye opener as to how much Maple Leaf Movers are only in it for the money. I needed to move the same load into my new house a year and a half later. Obviously I wasn’t going to call Maple Leaf Movers again so this time I called a local company, LaPalm Movers. Told them that the storage unit had just under 10,000 lbs of furniture and boxes. They calculated $1950 taxes included, so I booked them for 8:30 am 8 November. This company shows up at 8:15 am and have two trucks and four men to do my move. Found more damage to my property caused by Maple Leaf Movers putting heavyweight items on top of dresser tops and lighter stuff. Needles to say my spare bedroom dresser is destroyed by the so called moving experts from Maple Leaf Movers. So as I was saying, LaPalm movers packed my stuff up into their trucks in an hour and a half, unloaded all my stuff into my new house, and charged me the grand total of$709.65. Less than one quarter the cost that Maple Leaf Movers charged me for the identical load, and over $1200 less than LaPalm movers quote to me. Needless to say, I got totally ripped off by Maple Leaf Movers. LaPalm Movers are affiliated with Allied Moving Company. My advice would be to go with the brand name moving companies because these other so called moving companies couldn’t care less for you or your valuables, as long as they can rip you off and get away with it, they will. It’s time for the government to step in on these so called “professionals”.
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