This was my 2nd time using 2 Burley Men for a long haul move and it's safe to say that it will be the last time! While they were fine the first time around (2 years ago), any credibility that they earned during that first move has disappeared 10 times over. Like many of the other reviewers, I'd give 0 stars if I could.
My fiancé and I used 2 Burley Men to move from Alberta to BC. I booked the move over a month in advance and Earl (the long haul coordinator) and I agreed on a 2-day window for pickup, which was to be a Monday or Tuesday. With this in mind, we booked cleaners to come for the Wednesday morning, and planned our move out inspection and travel from AB to BC accordingly. Despite calling the Friday before, we didn't receive any communication about when specifically our pickup would occur until Monday around noon, when we were told it would be 'Tuesday around suppertime'. While it was a bit annoying that it would be almost as late as possible on our 2nd day, it was fine. That's where 'fine' ended and the headache began.
We didn't hear anything from our movers throughout the day on Tuesday, and finally had to reach out at 6PM (via text - the only method of communication we had) to ask when they would be coming. It was then that we were told that they wouldn't be coming that night at all, it would be the following day. But despite texting back immediately and calling several times, we didn't hear back from the mover with a timeframe for pickup until 1:15AM! Of course, this made it impossible to reschedule the cleaners, and completely threw off our travel plans too.
What followed was a saga of poor - or more accurately, non-existent - communication that's really too long to detail here. The short version is, we were told that we'd get a call with an updated delivery estimate once our items left Alberta, but we never did. The call we did get was at 8PM on Friday night saying delivery would happen the next morning - something we couldn't accommodate due to our strata restrictions, but could have had we been properly informed. Again, had we been given the updated delivery estimate as promised, we could have accommodated this delivery, but we assumed that our stuff was still in Alberta so we hadn't booked the elevator for the weekend.
The worst part of this whole experience had to be when I had to speak with the owner, Scott Burley. Ladies - a tip: do your best to avoid talking to this man; he is rude and condescending and man-splains everything, without actually ever letting you tell your side of the story (even though he said he didn't know what was going on, he wasn't interested in hearing it). Get a male to call for you and avoid the misogyny. Or truly, whatever your gender, just don't use this company and save yourself the stress. read more