At the middle of May I contacted a number of moving companies and requested quotes for a move from Brookline, MA to Rochester, NY I received at least 10 quotes with ATRANS being the lowest quote. So needless to say I hired this scam company. These guys are smooth and have all their t's crossed and their i's dotted. I checked to see if they were credited with the BBB and at that time they were under the name of ATRANS and at the point in time I did not know that they also used the name ATRAF. If I knew that they went by another name I could have check to see that they had 43 complaints against them prior to my hiring them. I gave them my credit card number and the first charge was $200.00 deposit.
They continued to play the Mr. Nice Guy game. They told me they had their own trucks and for me not to worry that I would have my items picked with their truck on July 25 and I would have my items by July 30. On July 25 a Budget Rental pulled up at my 48 Harvard Avenue address I phoned and spoke with Guy and he assured me that I need not worry that all the
company trucks were out and they always use rentals to pick up the slack. So I agreed they could take all my worldly possessions, alot of the items that I was having shipped to my Rochester address were heirlooms and items that can't ever be replaced, sentimental items can't ever be replaced.
After that there was no contact from those guys at all. I had to make numerous phone calls (mostly going to answering machine) to enquire about my things. On July 30 Guy told me to contact Mr. Yuval the owner who also goes by the name Val. Next day Mr. Yuval phoned me and told me. That I he had some bad news that there was no truck going to Rochester and my freight was too small to use a full truck so he was trying to arrange a truck and promised to get back to me by 8pm on July 31st.
It is August 1st now and I still have not heard anything from them about a delivery date. They still are holding more than $10,000. Worth of merchandise and a lot of sentimental items that are worth more than money can buy. But that means nothing to these types of criminals. How do they every get DOT licenses and State licenses is beyond me. Hopefully these guys will get caught someday and pay for these crimes they commit against people.
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