Uhaul
I put in an order for a 15ft truck in Calgary AB on 15 July for 8am July 18th and drop off in Edmonton that night. I also ordered a utility dolly with it. The order went through without issue. Then I received a phone call 16hrs before I was to pick up the truck to tell me that too bad, I won't be able to pick up the truck until 11am and the pick up location would be a less convenient one. I had already booked movers to help and with the 3 hours delay, got charged for that delay as uhaul Calgary did not give much notice to change the movers as the business day was almost over. Then when I went to pick up the truck, they didn't have the dolly I had ordered either. I ordered the utility dolly as I needed the longer base to move things. They said we don't have any and gave me an appliance dolly that was completely useless and still charged me $10 for it. When the worker went to give me the truck, he couldn't find the keys because they were hanging on the "needs repairs" hook. So they gave me a truck that they didn't even know would work properly to top it off. When I went to return the truck in Edmonton, the mobile drop off system wouldn't work. The Edmonton office charged me $20 for not doing mobile drop off. When I brought to their attention that it wouldn't work and gave the verification number I received, they kindly refunded the money which was great on their part. The manager of the Edmonton office then tried to make amends for the issues I had with the Calgary office as well and tried to see what she could do to make up for the Calgary offices screw ups. When she contacted the Calgary office, they refused to give her access to my order file. I was then contacted by the manager in Calgary named Lydia I believe, who then proceeded to blame me for all the screw ups. She said in a voicemail message that they are required to give 24 hours notice of when to pick up the truck and that my order confirmation stated that the order is subject to availability. When I spoke to her on the phone, I informed her that they did not give 24 hours notice as I still had the call logged in my phone showing it was only 16 hours. She then backtracked on that said oh, well it's the day before. Then she looked up my order confirmation email and said it showed it stating that the order and timings are subject to availability. I pulled up my confirmation email as I had saved it and I informed her that nowhere on mine does it state that whatsoever. She told me too bad, hers does and I should've known and it was my own fault. Then she proceeded to tell me that because they gave me a dolly I didn't order, I still had to pay for it. She said they had 600 of the utility dolly so she's not sure what the problem was but they gave me one I didn't order so that should have sufficed. I told her no, it was useless and I told the worker it wouldn't work for what I needed but he put it in the truck anyway.
I am tired of getting the run around from the shitty Calgary employees who just like to pass the buck to the customer so they're not at fault of anything. The whole experience has now shown me that I will never rent from uhaul again. The Edmonton office and its manager was great and were very understanding and willing to fix the issues but unfortunately the experience with Calgary has left me, my girlfriend and her family who use it often, never wanting to use uhaul again. The way it was handled by the Calgary office, I will never use uhaul again. I hope changes are made to fix these issues in the future and if uhaul wants customers to know that things are subject to availability after the fact, they need to state that on their emails and not except people to assume. Horrible customer service and business practices. I'd give zero stars if I could. read more