8 Nov 2016 · MoveAdvisor
1.0 out of 51.0
TL;DR: In my opinion, Ray the Mover and Allied Van Lines are a poor choice for international moves. Speaking personally, I would not trust them ever again to move a single box across a room, never mind across a city, state, or country. I feel they took quite a bit of my money and then didn't do their job. I feel cheated by them. I feel that they did not live up to informal commitments that I tried explicitly to discourage. And I feel that they failed to do the one thing I paid them for. Their written promise about the amount the move would cost was true just until they ran into something I'd warned them about but that they apparently didn't believe, so I face unexpected costs.
To begin with, let me note that I had mostly pleasant interpersonal interactions with Ray the Mover's staff. With the notable exception of the person who dealt with me when things started to go badly on moving-in day, the staff were on the whole pleasant and polite.
Unfortunately, I didn't hire them for their winning interpersonal skills. I hired them to get a move done, and they didn't do it. Maybe they'd be competent and effective at getting a local move done, and it's possible that "local" extends to all of New Hampshire. Beyond that, however, I would suggest finding someone else. I would also avoid using Allied Van Lines, for the same reasons.
I contacted Ray the Mover because I was moving from New Hampshire back to Canada. I had a particularly tricky problem, because by the time I'd finally reached an agreement with my house buyer and I had a very short close (by then,.
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