The Worst Experience of my Life with a ...
I have been moving several times and I have the worst experience of my life with 24hours moving. Everything started when a nice guy (at least when talking by phone), whom name is Gabriel, he let me know that 24hoursmoving people were very professional. He asked me for the size of my house and addresses to pick up and deliver. I let him know that my house was 4 Bedrooms and the moving was from Katy Texas to Weston Florida. On June 22nd 2015 he sent me a quote for 1770$ (for 590 cf). I called him and asked him how he calculate the volume and he let me know that it was an estimate, but he asked me to fill out a form with the list of articles. This list was very simple to fill out and it did not include details about volume, only name of parts. I filled out the form as instructed and send it back to Gabriel. On July 6th 2015, he send an estimate based on my list and the amount was $7727.20 (close to 1908 lbs), including packing services, I thought it was a little be expensive, but because of my wife’s health, I decided to accept the price to proceed with the move. They asked for 10% in advance which I paid ($772.72) and they asked to sign all kind of papers (contract, estimated and credit card authorization). The day of the move, July 28th: the driver (Jesus) with three other guys arrived late in the morning (10:30 am). The driver was very arrogant and nasty with my wife, they proceed to do their own estimate (you can imagine the same day of the moving), when he finished, he let my wife knows that I did not know how to do an estimate, that the chairs were too big and also the sofa and so on, but I let him know that the list that I received did not include the sizes, the list only include, for example: number of dining chairs, there were no option to select big or small chairs. He let me know that the new amount that I have to pay was $12700, YOU CAN IMAGINE? FROM $7727 TO $12700 (64% more that the initial estimate). I did not accept the new price and one of the Manager from 24hoursmoving called me from their office (I think the name is Cynthia), she was also very arrogant and she let me know that I was the one that commit the mistake with the estimate, I told her if they know that people like me are not good doing estimates, why they did not send someone to my house to validate my estimate before the moving take place. She told me that they were located in Dallas and I was in Katy and that was too far away. She let me know that if I did not accept the new price, I have to pay them the following: travel time of the employees, 300$ penalty and the gas that they use. She also recommended me to leave some of the furniture in my house and upload in the truck the most important items. I talked to my wife and when she asked the driver (Jesus) to recalculate the volume with the most important items, he refused to do that and he left. Five minutes later, 24hours moving charged me $567.15 in my credit card without any explanation. When I add this amount (567.1