Chelsea Ministorage was bought last year by Storage Post, closed and after 25 happy years my storage was moved to Brooklyn. I was told I would receive 50% off the first month at Brooklyn, and 10% every month after and as I was enrolled for autopay at Chelsea, in November I would instead pay my rent on the spot in Brooklyn and arrangements would be made there at that time to transfer my autopay from Chelsea to Brooklyn. I was then told to wait for further notification of scheduling of the move as details had not yet been finalized at that point.October 31 I received word, less than a week in advance, that my move was scheduled for November 5 at 10 AM,. November 5 was the first day of my monthly rent due, so I guess it was assumed that I knew it would be the date of the move and only the hour was to be scheduled. Actually I thought the opposite: if they had no information for me mid-September and I received no further word till October 31, I assumed, apparently wrongly without information to the contrary meantime, that it might be anytime after November 1 and certainly with reasonable notice, say at least a week. As such my personal schedule was already filled up otherwise from the 5th up until the 11th, which would be my first day free thereafter. This was initially rebuffed with great opposition by Storage Post staff, insisting that it was impossible any other date but the 5th, to which I I had to push back, insisting it was impossible and unreasonable to expect on such short notice. Finally they referred me to the movers who ultimately managed to reschedule for the 11th and both Storage Post call staff and the movers assured me that I would be able to delay my November rent payment till that day, without incurring a late payment fee.I was also informed that since Storage Post did not have a unit equal in size to the one I'd had at Chelsea, that I'd just have to cram everything into a smaller locker,which is of course physically impossible,, and, I was initially told for the same money a larger, more expensive locker wasn't available "at that time". Once again refusing to be cowed by Storage Post staff's attempts to coerce me, I had to insist that I be provided with a sufficiently large locker, but at no extra charge i.e. the smaller locker's price since Storage Post had effectively taken my storage hostage against my will and were therefore obligated to provide adequate service, even at a loss, since none of this was my desire or doing. After all their resistance I had to fight, staff finally agreed to provide the larger locker at the lower price .November 11th the move was made as scheduled, however, the boxes used to move were larger than the spacing of the shelves I used in my locker, so , whereas the objects inside them fit on the shelves, the boxes themselves were too large, and after the boxes were loaded in, there was no space left for the shelves. Fred Zarka, the manager, then told me I would have to pay for a larger locker, and I refused, as it wasn't my fault that the boxes they used wouldn't fit on my shelves. Apparently he has no concept of the time involved assembling and disassembling shelves, because at that point, with an obvious disregard for my time and effort he suggested that I disassemble them to fit. As always, I had to adamantly refuse and insist and he finally agreed to store the shelving units in some office there, perhaps the mail room, I can't remember. It was closing time so I just had to leave it to him, and I havn't seen myself the place where he put them.He then apparently didn't get, or disregarded, the memo that I was supposed to pay the lower price for the locker, only after much resistance on his part and more insistence on mine, did he finally make the arranged change and accordingly charged the price to the lower one. He went on to assure me that though my payment had been due the 5th, I would not be charged a late fee, and that he had switched my autopay to Brooklyn.At this point let me say Mr. Zarka's performance has been very spotty at best. After my repeated calls and left messages for him, he has only returned ONE. I have only reached him directly once, every other time being told by whoever picked up the phone that he was unavailable and I had to leave a message. The ONE time when I called and he picked up I told him I'd left a couple messages the week previous, he denied receiving the messages, so I naturally assumed it was either the fault of some technical glitch or negligence on the part of his staff, but month before last when I was there in person and overcharged as always, despite my wasting months on the phone with more than half a dozen members of Storage Post call staff assuring me that the discrepancy would be fixed, and never was, I personally witnessed Kineesha in the reception at the Brooklyn facility speak to Fred directly on the phone, and so many other endless on-going Horrors that won't fit so JUST DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!! read more