I've been fighting for the past 3 weeks to recover the second load of my parent's shipment from FL to TX. I happened to read an article in a reputable magazine about moving and it listed the movingscam.com website. I decided to look it up.
I read in disbelief Kelly from Portland, Maine's article about Nationwide Relocation and "Bobby" of Ferrari Moving. Her story is EXACTLY the same as mine... Except I was moving my parents and it sickens me to know that in trying to make their move easier I've caused them to lose so many items they've had for 30-50 years... Gone, destroyed, damaged, and some still being held... For ransom. What's even more disheartening is that as they unloaded my parent's first shipment, they told me where they were headed next... Kentucky to Maine. I wish I could have warned Kelly.
Everything was the same as Kelly's story. The "oh don't worry about the paperwork not being correct" and the weight of the truck not being the one they actually used. The showing up with a Penske truck and not being able to fit everything in it. The HUGE difference between the estimate and the "false" weigh in... And the claim that my parents had way more furniture than the list the movers were given.
The stories "Bobby" gave were quite diverse and got increasingly dramatic until the one that said we should plan to pay for another load if we wanted it sooner. We still don't have the second load.
We'd already paid him on the first load and I DID give his drivers a few hundred dollars in cash because when I called Moving Cost or Nationwide Relocation to ask about the different arrangements for payment, the woman said Bobby was one of the best movers they had and I could trust whatever he said.
We have the claim forms to fax to Ferrari Moving all filled out for all the broken and damaged items. It would've been faster to write down the items that were NOT damaged. Boxes were not marked at all... After the first few boxes nothing was wrapped... It was just dumped into the boxes. None of the furniture was blanketed so it was all rubbed raw to the metal or deep into the wood from riding packed so tight together.
As Kelly mentioned, they were professional on the phone and online with the estimate and beat out other estimates I'd obtained. It wasn't until the packing that we started to wonder about the legitimacy of this outfit.
Don't use them!!! You WILL regret it... And you WILL lose more than just money.
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