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Ryan at moveBuddha was very helpful in assisting us with our cross country move. He recommended Moving Place, who I had not heard of through my own research and they charged 1000s less than the more well-known companies I was looking at. Our truck was on time on both ends of the move, and the Moving Place rep I worked with, Stuart, was very helpful and always prompt at answering my questions.

We could not have been more pleased with how our move turned out, and especially with the great service we received from moveBuddha and the Moving Place. We really booked our move about as close to the last minute as you can get, and involved transporting our son's furniture and assorted belongings from Indiana to Oregon where he was entering his junior year of college. We were convinced there was no way to get the move accomplished in time, but moveBuddha and Moving Place got it done, and at a cost well below every other estimate we had. Ryan at moveBuddha was simply wonderful to work with as was Stuart at Moving Place. They were on top of the move from the start and seemed to care about getting our son moved in almost as much as us. Great service, great people, and just a satisfying experience all the way around. We will definitely be using them again, and will gladly recommend moveBuddha and Moving Place to anyone planning a move. We plan to use them again when we finalize our move to California in the next few months.

Great option for a large household move without breaking the bank. The trailer drop-off and pick-up on both ends were right on time. We went over a bit on our quoted linear feet for the trailer, but since we are the only household in the truck it was not a problem, we just paid a little more, but still much more reasonable than a full service mover.

We had a great experience with our move. Rich, our driver, was amazing - professional, hard working, and he clearly took pride in his business. Highly recommended!

Cost included drop offs and pickups, long distance move, and an extra month of storage, a 16' POD. Pricing was accurate but I'm working with them to remove an extra charge for an additional month of storage I didn't need (was an autopay, this charge came up long before the new month would have started, so that I'm not a fan of). They were always on time, everyone I talked to was friendly, their technology of moving the POD is neat, and all of our stuff made it safely across the country.

Great experience, will use again.

I would never use pods ever again. It was a thoroughly terrible experience. It was a last minute move, but the salesman sold me that they could for sure get the pod to me on Saturday morning of my move between 7 AM and 10 AM and claimed he could just move things around to make the time schedule work. Friday night we got the call indicating our estimated delivery time window was between 3PM and 6PM. I was on a flight so my wife called customer service and waited about an hour on the phone. The customer service person told her that they don't guarantee delivery times, but that when she looked in the system our delivery time said between 10 AM and 1 PM. Since this was still early enough for us to proceed with our move, we pushed our movers back a little bit. By 1PM the Pod had not showed up so I then spent the next couple of hours on and off the phone and/or on hold with pods to figure out what was going on. Our estimated service window was in fact 3 PM to 6 PM. I asked to speak to a supervisor about how two of their employees had at that point lied to us. The supervisor pretty much just ignored what I said and gave a canned response repeatedly that they do not guarantee service time windows. He said that their sales guy shouldn't have guaranteed the window and that he would get coached on it. I asked for some kind of discount since they had screwed up our entire moving day and the best they were able to do was $100. The truck ended up arriving around 7 or 7:30 PM. We were forced to do all of the loading, cleaning, and painting on Sunday before driving 8 hours to our next destination.

If you are going to use Pods make sure to set the delivery up or a day or two in advance of your delivery. I recommend not using them though because my experience with them was that they were extremely dishonest.

Included pro loading/unloading services and ~70 days of storage. Really happy with the entire move process and the storage offering.

Moving anywhere is gawdawful, interstate moves are hell. I'm not going to say that Zippy Shell made my move across state lines a walk in the park, but they made it far easier than it could have been at a reasonable cost. So not hell. Purgatory light.

The staff at Zippy She’ll were terrific. Especially Paul Vicente. And the same goes for MoveBuddha. I would never have found Zippy Shell otherwise and you made the whole process so much more transparent and simpler.

Zippy Shell's price came in quite a bit lower than the other bidders. And Paul Vicente with Zippy Shell was easy to contact and very helpful over the phone.I was nervous all along about the full-service aspect of the move. Zippy Shell did not have a contract that matched the service they were providing. As I understand it, this is a new service they are providing: they really need to produce a contract which matches the service they are providing. I had to trust Paul's word (and I managed to get in writing via text messages).

The driver did a really good job. He coordinated with me the day before the move. He showed up on time. And he did a good job prepping me on how the day should go. There was quite a bit of confusion on the movers and packers. The movers showed up a little late. When they arrived, they informed us that they don't pack, they only move.

For several hours (maybe 3-4) it was unclear if the move would be finished by the end of day, as was promised by Paul. However, a second moving contractor was hired. They showed up midday and really kicked ass. They had everything packed up and moved out in a few hours.

At the destination (Columbia, MO), we had the same driver. He showed up within a couple days of the move day from Scottsdale. We were just moving everything into a storage unit, so it all was pretty easy and went smoothly.

In all, the driver was great. Paul was helpful, responsive, etc. Their new full-service move process requires some refining (i.e. the contract and sub-contractor hiring needs improvement). And their price beat everyone else (I think the closest bidder was about 10% more in price.)

Used 1800Packrat for a long distance move from Columbus, OH to Williamsburg, VA. We had a 2 week vacation planned in the middle of the move, so using a container service that allowed one month from drop off to drop off without additional storage fees worked well. We needed three 16 foot containers for all the items in our house. Had no issues with 1800PackRat and would use them again.

If you are using them, I would recommend that you schedule the container drop off and pick up one day before you actually need it if you have friends or movers loading/unloading. On our drop off day, one container was delivered at 8:30 AM and the other two at 6:00 PM. Same deal on the drop off at our new house. So the containers were delivered on the promise day, just not first thing in the morning.

We moved with a storage container from 1-800-pack-rat. PackRats did not disclose a substantial "gas adjustment" fee on the phone when booking - even when I asked about the possibility of additional fees. Although this fee was in the fine print of the agreement they sent me, it seemed like they were trying to hide it.

The cost posted above is an estimate--they charged about $3800 but had quoted $3525. The lady who placed the order did NOT tell me that there was a surcharge for gas now. When I used them before about a year ago there was NOT a surcharge for gas, so this surprised me. Especially since we discussed that the price was higher than last time I used them and gas then was twice as much as it is now, and I had expected the cost to be lower---then low and behold the bill comes and there is a SURCHARGE for gas if the rate for diesel is over $1.50 a gallon, which is a MAJOR rip off as that price has not been seen in decades...So since they can not be upfront with the price they are not worth doing business with and are now off my list. The surcharge was in the small print on the order at the very end, in the type that you can not read as its too small and one would need a magnifying glass to read.

They also had the destination street address off by one number, but that was easily fixed with a phone call. They dropped off the box on the day scheduled and delivered it on the day scheduled. We are still waiting pick up of the empty box, but do not need to be there for that. Nothing really shifted in the box.