Guide to Moving - Moving Company Scams
Scams and Internet Moving Companies
The way the moving scam works is someone who wants to move from one place to another goes online and finds a moving company. Using an online estimator, they will leave a phone number or full information and usually in a day or two the moving company will make contact. After discussing payment, dates and times everything is set and the company comes and moves the person's items.
Once they get to their home, the occupants will discover that the truck never made it to their new house or the truck will go to the new home but the movers will refuse to give back the items in the truck. The reason will be that the truck is heavier than they thought, so the owners of the property have to pay more money if they want their stuff back. In most cases the money that the movers want can go high in the thousands. The movers can and will hold the customers property until they pay up and a customer will find themselves sitting in an empty house trying to figure out what is going on.
Any legitimate moving company will send someone over to the old house to check how many rooms, how much furniture and boxes. Depending on other factors such as stairs, the moving company will give the potential customers the amount that needs to be paid.
Moving companies are no longer regulated and will only be investigated sometimes. The most a moving company can expect is a fine. Although I speak of online scams, some offline moving companies has pulled this scam or ones similar to it. It can take months and years of fighting with a moving company before a customer will get their property back. A lot of times the property has been stored in such bad condition that almost nothing is useable.
Money is the only object of this scam and the owners of the moving company have no kind of sympathy or care to give to the victims. To understand how this scam affects a consumer, read the store of Tim Walker, the founder of movingscams.com.
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Post a CommentMoving can be so scary I have experienced a horrible ordeal more than just a year ago when moving to a new home. I also own a business with over 25 employees and we needed to expand as our company was growing, i found a place bigger enough to grow with a growing business, i was very skeptical about calling an Moving company due to the fact of the experience and the scams that are going on, I was able to find a company by the name of Packing Service Inc or there site http://www.PackingServiceInc.com i spoke with a rep there whom was very professional who offered to come to my office to give an exact quote on helping us pack up our office and prepare us for the move he also referred me to a site that talks about moving scams http://www.movingscam.info which in return saved me a lot of money. I recommend this company anytime.
Moving Can be very expensive and it easy now and days to be scammed. I found a great company by the name of Packing Service Inc when I hired them to help me move before they even came out they gave me steps to avoiding Moving Scams by visiting http://www.MovingScam.info, it was the best thing I could do I saved thousands.
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HERE IS THE SCAM. Weight tickets. Where do they weigh the shipment? Who regulates weight tickets? The answer NO ONE. Most shipments are weighed at the truck stop on a certified scale, but you can weigh someone else's truck or hang a tire on the scale for your light weight. Heavy weight , is it before or after the driver filled his tanks with fuel and added 2 thousand pounds of weight to the shipment. You can pull a truck on the scale with the front axles of another truck on the scale with you and get whatever weight you want. The CAT scale weight ticket or any other weight ticket is a SCAM. Yes, the scale is certified, but it is only certified to whatever is on the scale. Some companies print up their own weight tickets. How can you pay based on a fake weight ticket?