Besides Joann being super nice and hooking me in from the beginning, the rest of my experience was a nightmare. This was my first cross-state move and I went withAll Pro, who brokered out Unique Vanlines to haul, store and then deliver my belongings. My estimate ending up going up, when I went over my final count with Cameron, but that's ok, I knew I had more than what I had though. But when the driver came, he rushed me through the paperwork and charged me $2000 more than what I was quoted, because I had gone over my "article count". Which is total BS since it shouldn't be about # of packages but by weight. When I called later to dispute this, Cameron said he would look into it and that it didnt make sense, but he never got back to me. To this day, he's never returned a text or call.
Once Unique had my stuff, my life got worse. I won't even go into the scheduling of the delivery, which was mismanaged (they tried to come before the delivery date/before I had access to my new home) and delayed, but my things arrived damaged. Boxes were totally crushed, and upside down. Plastic bins were also crushed, which takes a lot of pressure! A good deal of my breakables were in fact broken, although I had packed them well. It was as if all the fragile boxes were put on the bottom of all the heavy items, and just crushed. A wardrobe box was crushed down to medium box size. Also, even though they wrapped my grandmother's handpainted desk, so knew what they were dealing with, they broke a leg off.
They rush you through all the paperwork and then, when it ends up costing 2K more than estimated, they say "well you signed this!" so have to pay. It's totally horrible customer service. Plus, they only insure $.60 per lb, which again, I was rushed through the paperwork so did not know to read the fine print. So if you have $1000 vase that weights 2 lbs and they crush it, they only give you $1.20. It's total insanity. So they value your things by weight but they charge you per article, no matter the weight. I would never recommend this company. it's backwards and not logical.
If I could go back and do this over, I would rent some sort of pod, fill it myself, so that I know how it will be handled and stored. They do not care one single bit about your belongings, only making money. This was already such a stressful move, total life change, and they made it 100 times more stressful and horrible. All-pro was no help and unique was unique all right, in that they destroyed my property and now only want to give me about $20 back. I have multiple friends moving this spring and I am telling them all to NOT use either of these companies, if they care about their stress levels and belongings. read more