All State USA as I found when I called the 1800 number for DOT hotline reporting found in another report is owned by the company most of the other reports here seem to come from in Hollandale Florida. I was quoted $900 which was with in a few hundred dollars of other quotes so although the lowest was not unreasonably low.
Final cost on day of pick up was $2000 which I will be sure to get refunded as I signed their consent to charge as my name Duress. This of course is the Flat rate he did me a favor giving as he felt he could charge me 5000 with no problems. Because these companies do thier final threats and jack up of prices via phone with no new written estimate they seem to cover themselves to your word aginst thiers and of course who wins the my word your word in court? Them. Because of this I signed everything with "duress". I added Duress to my name and my signature. I have made the report to the DOT and it would seem you can make reports to them but they have no athd in being a part of a class action suit please contact me and we will work togeather to find a lawyer (that will not rip us off too) to file.
I will request in my letter to congressman Mica that this companies licnceses in the state of Florida be revoked and I will also be seding out press releases if we can get people on board to file a class action suit.
Please band togeather do not feel sad and then give up. This site is a wonderful way for us to vent but now it can be a wonderful way to get justice.
This site has my permission to forward emails to me of those interested in filing a suit or that would like help in documenting your story.
I had a hard time post ing this and have since sent this to the city manager of Hallendale asking how it felt to know that Hallendale is consideredt the rip-off movers headquarters, I also have left a message on the state investagators voice mail to phone me tommorrow I will have a police officer with me at the time of delivery I have also called my bank and told them not to allow anything more than the legal allowed of 110% of estimate to be deducted from my accounts and explained to them that I signed the card reciept under Duress and my "singing is my initals and Duress" and not my legal signature.
The funny thing is when she looked at my account they had apperently tried to give me a CREDIT of $647 which was not accepted and then gave me a credit of $200 and a debit of $100 so right now they have only charged my Visa $300 and actually paid me $100 in my checking account... They will be authorized to therfore charge $790 to my account when I recieve the shipment tommorrow (I hope) Also I found several handy things they violated from the Department of Transportation site like not giving me information on the liablity insurance and types, the bill of lading was not faxed to me, tarrifs detail and other things that are required by law.
By the end of the drop off of my goods they will be very happy to get the $990 they are getting cause they don't want me coming down to Hallandale. The worlds deadliest combination a pissed off service connected disabled female that just got called HONEY by a lug threatning the life and limb of another female while demanding 2 times as much as agreed upon.
Hollie
Port Orange, Florida
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