27 Jun 2018 · MoveAdvisor
2.0 out of 52.0
They moved us from Chicago to California. We actually had a really good experience until the very the end of delivering our stuff to California. The in home estimate was great, they were able to get us on the next truck out to California a couple weeks later and our customer service coordinator was a very responsive emailer. They had three super efficient guys move us out in Chicago, they were awesome as well as our guys in California delivering. The huge hiccup -they left our couch in Chicago (it never left the warehouse) and didn't tell us this until move in day (even though they knew two weeks prior when they picked up our stuff). We could have planned for not having a couch if they told us, but no we found out on move-in day instead. When they showed up in California we told them there was 100 steps up a huge hill and they only showed up with 2 guys (they said it should have been a 4 guy job) so it took way longer than it should have. We asked the drivers if anyone told them they needed for people and they said "no, corporate doesn't care about telling us that though." Oy. They told us to "Call the 1800 # on Monday" to find out what happened with the couch, they said they had no idea but they've known for weeks that they wouldn't have it. It took them a full week to just get back to us just to tell us that our couch never left chicago and that they'd send it to us IN A MONTH. Their only consolation was giving us back $250 on a $3500 which was a joke. I ended up talking to their sketchy CEO (Sal) because no one would help us get our couch faster or give us a better discount or buy us a new couch. Sal's only consolation was that "they're not required by law to send me my couch sooner." Umm, no duh Sal, it's called customer service, you're supposed to do it because you promised me a service you're not delivering on. He was so rude, didn't know how to talk to customer and tried to lecture me on the policies of the moving industry.
I told him I'd post my accurate review onto yelp since I was really dissatisfied and that given my husband was working from home full time and really needed the couch because it was his only place to sit, I was hoping they could send me my couch a week later or pay for me to just get a new couch. He got really upset that I would "post lies to yelp" and threatened to sue me! It actually got comical at this point because he clearly didn't care at all.
Honestly, they were great in the beginning but at the end of the day, a moving company needs to get all your stuff there, safe and sound and on time and they failed to deliver on that. And, it seems like their customer service reps have a better sense of how to be customer-first than their CEO Sal. I don't know how that company operates with that man as a leader. Long story short - don't use them and beware that they also operate under the "Allied" name.
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