I am going to warn anyone NOT to use Tri-State Area Movers. This company is a scam. Unprofessional, Unethical, Immoral. I was quoted $700-$825 yet my total cost was going to come out to $1,500+ What an absolute joke. I understand my quote was a minimum but in what world is it professionally acceptable that the minimum is over 2x less than the actual price. I am a student, I do not have the financial flexibility to just spend and extra $800 dollars unexpectedly like that. It was never mentioned to me to what degree I had to have my belongings packed, only "the more you pack the faster it will go". Yet I was charged an extra $420 dollars to drop a pile of clothes in the bottom of a used oil soaked "wardrobe" box. Wardrobe boxes are $15-45 and they have bars to hang clothes from yet I was charged for 3x $130 and my clothes were just tossed on the bottom. There were only 2 wardrobe boxes used, one for my wife's clothes and one for my clothes there were no more clothes I should not have been charged for the 3rd box. In addition if I am being charged for those boxes they are mine I should keep them, yet the movers took them away. And an additional $26 charge for packing my lamp? It was not packed, a piece of cardboard was taped to 1 half of it. Your promise of "we will take apart any furniture you need disassembled and re assemble it at the new apartment" was not met. I had to take apart and re assemble the bed frame myself. Finally the time it took for the movers to commute was unacceptable. Yes there was traffic, however the movers and I left the 1st apartment at the same time and yet it took them over an extra hour to get to the new apartment. That is not time I should be liable for. Not to mention your movers mentioned they were late to their second job that day. I was scheduled for a 4h30min move at minimum, and they had another job scheduled for the afternoon after mine. That tells me my move is a job that should have been completed in a much quicker timeframe. I do not care that the second apartment had a long walk, that is not an excuse in this case as it took less time to get everything moved compared to the shorter walk at the 1st apartment. I understand the $700 dollars was a minimum and expected to a few hundred dollars more, but not over 2x the price of my quote.
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