I wish I could be the third charming reviewer of Eco-Movers, but there was nothing eco- about them, not to mention they were horrible horrible HORRIBLE! I was going to give them 2 stars just for being available (through a contract company, mind you, where I could've gotten any mover) last minute... Oh how excited I was to find out it was them. Oh how disappointed I am now.
Some details: First, what mover walks in and tells you "I didn't want to take this job?" A hundred guys on Craigslist did, but I got stuck with these ungrateful and *arrrrogant* idiots? I tried being friendly--the plastic bin thing someone mentioned wasn't part of my packing, nor were the "blankets" and "bubble wrap" and everything else they were supposed to supply. Against the M contract, they tried to gouge me $15 more an hour for the move (despite me already having paid $75, the truck charge, so there's no excuse THERE). I guess they could tell that--when they weren't separating, let alone MARKING, the things to be put in storage vs the things to take to the wee little home... well, they left things OUTSIDE... all with a see you tomorrow--they could tell they were just going to run with the money. I can't just leave, in Seattle, stuff outside--it could rain, or I could have someone grab the stuff like it belongs to them--presuming it's okay to leave my house furnishings outside because you don't intend to finish the job (no one did a basic respect of TELLING ME THIS--I found out 1.5 hours before they were scheduled to finish this job! and only because I called myself).
It's kinnnda weird when someone asks you for certain things--this was on their first job of the day when (in under 2 hours) both of them need to take a piss... a really long one in one case--then the assistant needs a lighter... to smoke... in/around your home. 2 hours into your first job of the day and you both can't do your "business" before arriving and also can't fucking wait to light up? Did they miss the memo that most places in Seattle went smoke free? I live(d) right next to a fire station... yeah, light up boys--no smoking within 15 feet (which covers my entire "estate").
Not sure where this idea came from that a professor was suddenly going to... I dunno, not pay them? Visa and Mastercard secure the payments, but they got this oddball idea that because my old place is being turned into the extended Fire Station (if they read the city news, they'd know that) it's my fault for not getting to stay on the current lease (a month to month thing past the first 7 months or however long)? I pointed out that both the upstairs units were empty, silent, that it wasn't just "me" being sent bye bye from the multiplex... that I have a notice that the property's going down and that is circled as the reason to leave... but no... that's not okay because face it... movers just aren't the smartest kids on the block and 2+2 apparently equal fraud or something... in this case, 1+1 (who were also a bit fussy about not hiring 3 when my place was CROWDED)=less than 1 grateful Craigslist kid I could've hired.
I'm not saying I'll hire random Craigslist people next time, no, but I AM saying that I'd never recommend people who were scheduled for sometime between 2 and 4, never canceled with me, and also left my belongings--both boxes like a wardrobe and odds and ends designated as furnishings-- laying around outside to be destroyed (same 2 guys who wouldn't take out--at $70 an hour to pack--the trash they made of the boxes in here despite me not being able--and them knowing I'm not--to lift these piled in waste receptacles the size of a CAD monitor (what two of them used to contain).
Whatever the "Kangaroo" means, it isn't ecology or even environmentally conscious operation. I think it's more like egotistical careless orangutans... except I like orangutans and can't say the slightest bit of nice words about Grant, whose only resemblance to an orangutan would be height and the probability of flinging poo back and forth with his mates. Either way, I got a sh**ty deal and to upcharge me was beyond uncool... to devalue my belongings--the whole damn reason I hired someone ELSE who bragged his ass right out the door despite them not listening to that ONE IMPORTANT THING (separate storage unit stuff from home stuff)--is uncouth. F- from this instructor. They failed. At life this time. read more