Dissappointed and no resolutiom to complaint...
Update: After posting this review someone got back to me about our damaged items and pending claim. After defending that their quote was "correct" (I was not speaking of the quote receieved after giving them our item list, I was speaking about the quote we received from their free estimate option on their website), and then telling us "fragile ikea furniture isn't covered" in their policy (our bookshelf they broke was not in fact from Ikea but bought at Giant Tiger and was made of wood), they then asked us to remove this review in order to be compensated for our damaged items. When I told the representative she was literally bribing me to receive money for our damaged items, she "apoligized" and said she just didn't think a 1 star review was fair since we would be compensated. I gave a 1 start review for the poor customer service, for taking 8 weeks to finalize this matter and for the way we were treated during this ordeal. We received $150 today from the company for damages but only after writing reviews and fighting for compensation that should have been offered month ago. The company damaged our items, and provided a poor experience, I just wish they had taken accountability and showed remorse for the stress they caused. My mother in law is battling cancer, we were moving her accross Canada and selling the house so she could be closer to family. We did not need this stress on top of everything going on. I would have ammeneded my review happily if we had experienced any glimpse of good customer service.
I see now the company is "temporarily closed" on google and I doubt we will have any resolution to our awful experience. From the start Pacific Moving, now owned by Centennial Moving, was awful. The quote was off (they did not quote properly for a two bedroom house), there was a $300 additional fee for picking up our belongings from PEI since its "remote" and the day of pick up only one guy arrived. They paid our cousin, who was there to sign off on paperwork since we had already moved, to be his helper for the day. That was so unprofessional and put so much stress on the day. If our cousin has not been able to help, our things I guess just wouldnt have been packed? It took 5 weeks for our belongings to arrive in Regina and again only one guy showed up. He said he had a helper on the way and proceeded to put our stuff on the sidewalk, unattended. We stopped work (we work from home) and went out to help unpack so our stuff wasnt stolen sitting on the curb. The helper arrived 20 minutes late and we had already nearly finished unpacking. Several items were missing or we didnt know where they were, dispatch called us 6 times asking for proof of payment, told us to stop helping the unpacking (despite my explanation that our belongings were sitting unattended on the curb and the driver continued to unpack without his helper), and the driver did not care things were missing or broken. After the moving was done, I submitted a complaint about the broken items only to find out they have an extensive and complicated claim policy that we would not qualify for because we did not inventory and photograph every single one of our items or boxes before moving. They never told us we needed to take photos of each item before packing. We would also need proof of payment for broken items (how would I have receipts for dishes or antique family items??). In the end I was contacted by a complaint department employer once and then have never heard back. We asked for a refund for the broken items, a plastic tote that they broke, a bookshelf that snapped because they stacked too many items on top of it (the truck was a mess, everything fragile was upside down or squished and heavy items were clearly loaded on smaller items) and for the time we spent unloading the truck with thr driver. No response. Theyve ghosted us. I may try to contact centennial moving now since we were told they own pacific but Im not getting my hopes up. Avoid this company! I also felt harrassed for payment constantly. I paid a deposit upfront, then they emailed and asked us to pay via etransfer before our items arrived. I told them no and that it felt scammy to pay such a large sum before seeing my belongings or even having an arrival date scheduled. During the move they kept asking for confirmation I had sent the etranfer, which I had already sent and sent proof of payment for. It was irritating being called 6 times while trying to unpack, even after I snapped at the caller on the phone and explained to her we are unpacking, she still kept calling. In the end, we had broken items, sore backs and no resolution. Dissappionting to say the least.
August 29, 2023
Unprompted review