Think twice
This is my experience with Spyder Moving for anybody else who might be considering hiring them, I wish I would have known beforehand... We called them and Vlad the owner came to give us a quote in person. He came and looked at everything and told us $1,700, 3 hours to load. The agreement was to load everything on the truck, leave it there for 2 days and then drive down to Florence/Brandon MS area (just under 3hrs away from Oxford), then unload. He was supposed to be arrive at 8:00 a.m., then he rescheduled for 12 because he had to finish a job from the day before. Then they still didn't get there until around 1 and started at 1:20. It put us in a huge bind with the cleaners and they had to clean around them. They never told me I had to stay there. I had 4 cranky kids who needed to get to the hotel to sleep and his movers told me I could leave. My cleaners were my neighbors and they were my eyes and ears so I wasnt too worried. My neighbors said they were dropping dressers, clothes fell out, dropping boxes, was not careful all around! Then next thing I know they're unloading everything into a storage unit wthout me or anyone there!!! Who knows how my stuff was handled! That was never discussed, I found out by a call while they were already unloading it into a storage unit! Vlad said they have to have a second truck because it was more boxes than he thought (even though he came out and looked at everything) so he changed the price to 'discounted' $2,800. My husbands work was paying for the move and only approved the 1st amount. We had no choice as he already had our stuff. Day of move he said they got everything moved into one truck but had to still charge a little extra for an extra mover. (Charged $2,500... $800 extra for 2 movers) The unloadeders were 4 high school students. They were sweet and hard workers for sure, but unsupervised. And an hour late. Turns out to get everything into 1 truck Vlad and his loader guys took my metal garage shelf and patio canopy swing apart. Again, without me being there while they were doing any of this. The shelf and swing are completely ruined and unusable because they lost pieces and and the poles are bent very badly. The damage insurance is garbage. He won't cover anything you packed yourself cause he didnt pack it. And over the phone he told me if a dresser is damaged then you get $60. (Or .60c per pound of the item). My husband posted a review on yelp because Vlad went silent when it came to offering for compensation for my damaged and missing stuff. He offered a "generous" $55 for the lost, broken, and damaged items. The asked for my husband to take down the post and leave 5 stars and no context.... In all, things were lost, multiple things damaged and broken, the workers were late, we were over charged and out of money in hard times, and he is an owner trying to take advantage of hard working people.
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