I don’t even really know where to start with the problems that I had. The movers at least showed up at the appointed time, so I thought that was going to show how the day was going to go. It was two people living in a 2 bedroom apartment on the third floor, so there wasn’t a lot of stuff, but everything that we had was packed up. We even had things that we decided to take with us, so out of the probably 43 boxes, we ended up taking 16-20 boxes along with other things like electronics. We are avid collectors and readers so we did have 19 bookcases, a lot I know, but everything was off of them. They spent 4 hours (830am-1230pm) moving everything down into the truck. They even took some things down to the dumpster for me, so that was much appreciated, I know that they did not have to do so. I don’t think that it should have taken them 4 hours to move around 20 boxes, 19 bookcases, and a handful of other things, but I don’t do this for a living every day so who knows. They asked if they minded if they went to lunch, which of course I didn’t mind. So they were gone for an hour. Got to the house, which was about 30 minutes away from the apartment, around 130pm and took 4 hours to move everything from the truck into the house. This is where the real problem starts. They asked us to show them around to see where things were going to go. I had not had a chance to re-paint any of the rooms so it was fairly simple to recognize the rooms. Pink, Purple, Sparkly Pink, and Beige. They started bringing the bookcases in, which they had only wrapped in the blue blanket and some shrink wrap. They kept asking where each one went, which I understand they wanted to make sure things went to the right places. However, they did not use care while taking them up the stairs, so I’m assuming they did not use care when they were bringing them down at the apartment. 9 of our 19 bookcases were ruined. Nails were torn out, the backs were torn off, pieces were chipped off, the bottoms torn apart. Some were leaning and there was even a whole entire shelf missing. My best friends husband looked in the truck for it and did not see it. I could see 1 or 2 things getting damaged in the move, but 9 bookcases? And they were $100 a piece, so they were not cheap. The next part of the problem was that in the end, they just put everything in the living room instead of putting it where we told them. All the boxes were labeled with the name of the room or color, depending on if it was upstairs or not. One of the movers was on a phone call when he was moving things, which was is fine, but take a small break if you need to make a personal phone call. They noticed the damage done to some of the bookcases and had a conversation with my sister about it. Finally, they had moved everything in and it was time for me to pay. $1800 for 8 hours of work. It should not have taken 8 hours, but once again, what do I know, I don’t do this for a living. In doing the math, they ended up charging me for their hour lunch break. I called the office in the following days and informed them of the damage and issues, plus the charge of the lunch break which it was confirmed that they were not supposed to do that. It’s been about 2 months since my move date and it has taken me this long to calm down enough over the damage. Now that I am thinking more on it, I was charged a $180 deposit fee, which was said to go towards my total price. I am thinking that it did not though. I understand that this may have been a fluke and these guys just had an off day, but it is still unacceptable, especially when they were only going to offer me $160 for 9 $100 bookshelves, eventually they ended up giving me just shy of $400 but that still didn’t get me new bookshelves to replace the ones that they carelessly broke.