Yes- it was a dumb choice to go with a craigslist mover, but with our movers cancelling the day before They were very friendly.
ESP Logistics LLC w/ the owner name being Eddie.
He got back to us the night of, great. Well, they were 100/hr with a 100 dollar truck free, 50 dollars for a third.
First day they show up around noon- okay great. They start loading the things and we had to provide our own materials. So if we didn't have tape/syran/blankets then it wasn't provided. We lost most of the hardware because of this, none was given to us nor was it explained. Given when we were putting our furniture back together they had hardware pieces in them- so I guess they loosened them then just left them hanging in the headboards/etc.
Six PM hits and they have only done the upstairs. This doesn't include packing, everything was packed already. Our 4 dogs were also penned up and the door left wide open the whole time. So after they get all the boxes out of the house they work on my dad's shed downstairs. We hired them mostly to move our furniture because my father cannot lift a certain amount due to his heart attack and my mom and sister are disabled. Well, they only got half the garage done. Mind you we have 3D printers, 2 CNC machines and lots of hardware tools. If you are unfamiliar with prices my printer was 1k,CNC for 1k and 200.
So they are putting the printers in the truck and the guy drops the 1k one. One person told him to be careful with a customers stuff not to break it. I turned and said 'Yes, please don't the thing you dropped is like 1k bro.' So he turns to me and tells me that 'I better not tell him how to do his job' and that 'he's tired of my shit'. Another one of the movers moved between us because he took a step at me. He started pointing at me that he is 'going to kick my fucking ass'. So him and the other mover began to fight. While they are fighting they begin to knock over the expensive machines while they are beating the literal crap out of each other. The one who threatened me was removed from the job. Now- it's close to 8pm. We are down to 2 guys, we still have my parents room, garage, basement, living room, dining room and kitchen to put in the truck. WELP their truck is full now. So, we had our own and they began to fill it. Mom said she wanted certain stuff put in the truck because dad/i cannot lift it alone.
While putting our hottub in the truck the guy kept using the tiedowns for the hottub to push it into the truck. These tie-downs were only used to keep a cover on the hottub. Given the pressure, it snapped in half tearing out a piece of the side of the hottub. Great. So, they begin to move my mother's china cabinet using my dolly. Cool. Well, it wasn't moving fast enough so he put his foot on the edge and I heard the wood cracking. I told him to stop doing it that he was breaking it. What do I know tho? 10pm and both trucks are filled now. Still the same amount of stuff. So we are at 1k and only half our house is packed.
We did have some setbacks- because they didn't have another truck and our house wasn't cleaned out.. We had to postpone our move. This was thursday. They held our stuff until Tuesday.
We had another set of movers come in and finish packing the rest of the house. Took another truck. They removed everything out of the 2nd truck we rented that they had packed and repacked it fitting all our stuff in 1 15' and a 20'.
Tuesday comes and he texts the guy to be here at around 4pm. We get to Erie and the second moving company is almost done unpacking. 7pm hits.
He brought 2 guys with him, mind youthe owner sat in his truck the whole time.. But we didn't pay for him techincally to move anything. BUT. they start unloading. Only one guy is taking stuff into the house. They brought 3 dollies, used ours as well to get the furniture they did have into the house. The other guy just 'moved all the stuff in the truck to the end of the truck' for the first guy. When he had too many boxes at the end of the truck he sat on his phone and played games until he was needed again.
As I mentioned the curio was broken. As well as my curio cabinet, the glass completely shattered. We had a list of who took what. I went to talk to Eddie and told him our items were broken. He turned to his guys and asked why it was never mentioned to him and he said sorry. I just looked at him, and he asks 'well what do you want me to do'... I just stare, 'well dont you have buyers insurance?' as most moving companys provide. He sighs and says 'how much do you want'. I don't know the price so I bring my mother out. She explains to him and they go to look at the items. Their response was 'oh we didn't break those things.. that other movers must of did it.'
hey took OUR brand new dolly and left one of their own rusted flat tire one. Well, my dad called and asked for his back. Guy said he didn't have it. When he explained he's like 'oh yeah i have that'. We never got it back. read more