Update: Turns out they damaged the common areas as well.
Update: just heard from our neighbors that they spotted our movers drinking our booze.
How's moving with Everyday Movers like Pay-Per View? You're going to pay way too much money to watch a fight.
Yes, while moving everything we own, our movers decided to take an hour long break to have a fist fight in the hallway of our new apartment, terrifying our new neighbors and giving us a reputation we have to live down before we've even finished moving into the building.
You might expect that due to the unprofessional behavior of the people hired, that you might not be charged for the hour when the movers decided that fighting was more important than doing the job we hired them for, but you'd be wrong. It seems that everyday movers would much rather take as much money from you as possible.
Of course, moving is expensive, so the price shouldn't really be all that shocking, but when you pay someone to move your stuff, one would assume that they would get it moved without being damaged. However, Everyday Movers couldn't even pull that off.
Among the many perplexing actions taken by our movers, the most damaging was not wrapping pieces of furniture that have been passed down through the generations in our family. We provided furniture pads (an entire bag was left in the van, unopened) but for some reason, the movers failed to use them for most of the furniture, resulting in deep gouges and scratches to the furniture which will cost a fortune to repair.
Then there were our records, which we were unable to pack due to space constraints in our old apartment. We started to pack them away, but then the movers stopped us, and said it would be easier to move them in the furniture we keep them in. Of course, the shelving units we keep them in ended up breaking during the move, leaving us with more new furniture we have to buy. We're hoping none of the records ended up damaged.
There was also the signed comics, which we had put into a paper bag, and were going to put into a box for extra protection. However, the movers decided to take the bags out before we could place them in boxes, and the bags ended up breaking, spilling our comics on the damp pavement, and falling far enough to mangle some of our hardcovers.
And of course, we can't forget the pets. One of the movers packed our cats litter into a box which he then flipped upside down, filling the box with litter. There was also the base of a Chinchilla cage, which for some reason didn't even make it onto the truck, leaving us with a very angry chinchilla who has had to live in her pet carrier for the past few days, as well as another $300 to replace the cage.
On top of all that, they moved our new stuff in in the least convenient way possible, leaving us virtually unable to unpack until we shuffle boxes and furniture around to find room to unpack.
While it's tempting to blame everything that went wrong on the movers, a small portion of the blame belongs to us. We should have been more explicit in explaining that we were moving to a 4th floor walk up, though I'd think that anyone running a moving company in New York would ask every customer where they were moving to. And in the future, we will probably go with an all inclusive package from a moving company, but, we had a deal on a truck, and figured we'd save money if we provided trucks and moving supplies ourselves.
I'm sure that Pavel, the owner of Everyday Movers, will respond to our review with all kinds of accusations of us doing things wrong, and of not dealing with the issue immediately, but we called Pavel when the fight broke out and he came out and more or less stood around doing nothing other than asking us about money.
Come to think of it, there's probably a good reason why Pavel was concerned about whether or not the check we gave him to cover the balance of the moving costs would clear the next day. He saw the awful job that his company did and wanted to make sure he got his money before we discovered the extent of the damage they had done. We've tried calling him and bringing up our concerns, but he refuses to do anything to rectify the situation.
and how exactly are we supposed to deal with the movers ourselves? They've already shown that they have anger issues, and they're in possession of all our stuff? Do we tell them to leave, and hope they don't try to damage our belongings or even attack us?
So, in summation, if you're looking for someone to move all your junky furniture from one apartment to another: call Everyday Movers. If you have nice things you would like to destroy in the process of moving to a new place: call Everyday Movers. If you want to scare your neighbors with fights breaking out in the hallway of your new building: call Everyday Movers. If you want to know what it feels like to be extorted: call Everyday Movers.
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