DO NOT USE LONG DISTANCE VAN LINES! Long Distance Van Lines is a fraudulent moving company! They are brokers, not movers! They are also knowns as Northeastern Moving and Storage and have 45 complaints filed against them on the Better Business Bureau (please see link below). The BBB has an ALERT for Long Distance Van Lines and you can see on the link below that "Northeastern Moving and Storage's" website is http://www.longdistance-vanlines.com.
http://www.bbb.org/greater-maryland/business-reviews/movers/north-eastern-moving-and-storage-in-ellicott-city-md-90262667
Make sure to read the reviews on Yelp as well (see link below), as they cannot pay a membership fee to Yelp allowing them to falsify their reviews!
https://www.yelp.com/biz/north-eastern-moving-and-storage-ellicott-city
I was forced to cancel my upcoming move with Long Distance Van Lines as they did not follow through with their contractual obligations and misrepresented themselves. They lied about the services they would provide, and did not disclose pertinent information regarding the vehicle that would be used to transport our items.
I initially booked the move with Nick and Roy who were very conniving in order to win my business. In fact, Roy went out of his way to bash the owners of International Van Lines, "stating they were brokers and that I would not want to get in bed with the owner of the company." Nick told me that "he looked up International Van Lines credentials and they were not listed as movers operating their own trucks, but instead, they were listed as brokers." Meanwhile, that's exactly what LDVL is operating as.
I received a call from Lisa in their logistics department Monday morning to confirm the details of the move and she informed me that I had to make sure the building we are moving into would except an 18 wheeler to unload our items at the building. This was never mentioned to me before. Lisa told me I should have asked and that it was my responsibility to find out how the goods would be delivered. I told her that there was no way of me knowing this and she explained that we would have to unload on to a smaller shuttle if the building didn't allow for an 18 wheeler delivery and I would need to pay an additional $750 minimum. I told Lisa that Roy and Nick never explained this to me and she said, it's in the contract, which is nonsense. It may be in the contract, but it's also something that they should have informed me of since they knew I was moving in to a condo building, and they charged me an elevator fee to move in to the building, so they very well knew it was a builing. Lisa was so unbelievably nasty, and kept cutting me off. I told her I wanted to cancel the move and she told me that I can cancel, but i will not get my deposit back and I said, yes, I will because LDVL misrepresented the services and are committing fraud. I told her I would contact my bank and she said "good luck, you'll never get your money back." Another thing I learned was that you are not suppose to give a deposit for a move-this is not common practice with legitimate movers.
I hung up with Lisa and immediately tried to reach Nick and Roy several times via email and by phone. They never responded to me. I have all the emails to back this up and phone records showing how many times I called! I finally reached another supervisor, Kelly and she told me that LDVL records all their phone calls and they could verify whether or not Roy and Nick told me about the possibility of having to shuttle our items. This was also a LIE, as every intelligent person knows it's extremely ILLEGAL to tape record conversations and not inform the other party. I think she used this as a tactic to scare me, but clearly, I was not scared as I wish this was the case, because then the truth would come out and expose LDVL for what liars and frauds Nick, Roy, Lisa, Kelly and every other employee working for LDVL are.
I was not contacted until 3 pm today by a customer service agent, Paula. She was also extremely rude. I told her that I found information on LDVL and that are also known as Northeastern Movers, she tried to deny this, but I sent her an email with the link to prove they are the same company. Her response was, "well, this isn't your issue with us anyway, you didn't want to pay a shuttle service." She is correct, I didn't want to pay a shuttle service, because they never told me about this in advance, however, my lease is up this Monday, August 15th and I must be out of my apartment, so I had every intention of using them but their none responsiveness was also a breach of our contract and I could no longer trust them. The horrible customer service, horrific reviews/73 pictures of damaged goods on Yelp, and the Alert on BBB made me EXTREMELY fearful to use LDVL. There are several reviews about them low balling estimates and then doubling the fee when they load the truck, too, which also made me back out.
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