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Moving Scam – International Move

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Moving Scam – International Move.

How to Find a Trustworthy Courier Service for Your International Move?

If you are being transferred to a distant country for employment, you’re probably delighted about the chance to further your career in a new place. But you probably aren’t so happy about having to move and ship all your stuff to a place that’s extremely far away. Especially if you need a lot of your possessions transported. You are probably very concerned about falling prey to an international shipping scam. You want to be able to pay a set price to have all of your things shipped. And you want all of your belongings to arrive on time in good condition. Your worst nightmare would be for your belongings to be held hostage until you paid an exorbitant fee. Unfortunately, this type of moving scam happens often to international transferees. Thankfully, there are options to make sure you find a trustworthy courier service to move your prized possessions.

The days of being able to turn to the classified section of a newspaper and find a courier service to ship your stuff are over. These days, you almost entirely have to rely on the internet to find the companies you do business with. Courier services are no exception. Unfortunately, there are a lot of scam artists on the internet. And there are a lot of delivery companies that hire untrustworthy workers. To make matters worse, the moving and shipping industry is one of the least regulated industries. This means that it’s hard to prosecute a company that damages your goods or takes advantage of you in some way. With little accountability, some companies that provide courier services will make your moving experience very unpleasant and stressful just to make a little bit of extra money from you.

Fortunately, there are websites that make finding a dependable, honest courier service a lot simpler. These websites allow you to post what you need moved or shipped. Organizations that provide courier services can look at what you need transported. They can then send you an electronic message through the website stating that they want to transport your goods. In their message, they will tell you how much it will cost you for them to do the job. You can use the same website to look at customer reviews of any company that places a bid to ship your things. This way you can verify that specific companies aren’t going to scam you in anyway. You then have the freedom to hire a company with good reviews that offers to transport your belongings at a decent price. Websites of this kind are a godsend when it comes to avoiding scams.

So, look around the internet and find the right courier service listing website for you. You’ll be glad you did when your possessions arrive on time, in great condition to your new home.

This report was sponsored by Packing Service, Inc. and is a national chain dedicated to providing excellent packing and loading services. Packing service, Inc. offer Flat Rate Quotes and are dedicated to protecting consumers from moving scam, and takes time to educate their customers regarding the best way to transport their prized possessions form one location to another.

Moving Scam – Before and After

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Moving Scam – Before and After.

The Challenge of Getting Insurance Compensation When You’ve Been Victimized by a Moving Scam.

Insurance claims against scam movers may require some special procedures to insure that you get compensation for your lost and damaged goods.

The classical moving scam includes a low ball moving cost estimate followed by rapid escalation of the price, after the goods are loaded onto the truck. With virtually all moving scam companies, your goods will be put into storage, until the move is subcontracted to the delivery company.

When your possessions finally reach the destination they have passed through the hands of at least two moving companies, and one storage facility, and are probably going to be damaged and broken, with many items missing.

The basic requirements for filing a claim include making an immediate inventory of the damage, in the presence of the truck driver, and getting him to sign. The next two steps are based on regulations detailed in the Carmack Amendment, and preserved for nearly 90 years by the Federal laws and regulations governing interstate moves.

You must file your initial complaint with the moving company before the lapse of 9 months, and go through any recommended arbitration process. If you don’t put in your complaint, in a timely fashion, you lose the right for subsequent claims. Should the moving company be unwilling to come to terms with you, the next step, is to put in a claim in civil court. However, by law, you must wait until the end of the 9 month negotiation period before going court.

The last step is particularly pertinent to people who have been victimized by a scam outfit. But it isn’t that hard to do. The victim must track down the insurance carrier the mover was using when he moved the goods. I say “was using,” because many scam movers will have multiple company names, and will often change their insurance policy or carrier. This last step must actually begin before the move, because all homeowners moving with a lesser known carrier must be sure the companies making the move have a active license. If not, they won’t have insurance either.

Be sure to check out the company’s DOT number to make sure they are licensed. If a moving company is not actively licensed, then they have no insurance. Check out their BBB status, and check for information on the BBB website, that will show you how to see if the company is licensed.

Once you’ve gotten to the last step, there is a handy way to track down a company’s insurance carrier, and that is to use the FMCSA web site. Go to web address
http://lipublic.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/pkg_menu.prc_menu and put in the DOT number of the company, and their MC number and you should be able to pull up their current insurance record. The FMCSA web site not only lists the carrier’s current insurance, but also previous insurance policies, and dates. You must claim your money based on the insurance policy the company had at the time they moved you.

Just as a reminder, all of these steps taken after the move is over, won’t help at all if you didn’t make a packing list and have it signed by the mover before the move began. If movers do not agree on the Inventory and value of the items you moved, they can claim you subsequently falsified the insurance filing by asking money for goods that were never moved or were damaged before the move. Finally, keep in mind, all of these steps won’t help at all if you didn’t make a complete packing list, and go over it with the movers on moving day. Also you will only be entitled to .60 a pound compensation for your goods, unless you contracted with the movers to insure all or part of the value of the items you moved.

The best way to protect yourself from being caught in a moving scam is to take steps right from the start of your move. An ideal way to insure a safe move is to hire an honest packing company with a Flat Rate Quote. Then have them load your goods into locked shipping containers or Pods Containers, for which only you hold the key. Packing Service, Inc. is an honest packing company that is dedicated to protecting consumers from moving scams. They will not only pack and load your goods expertly; they will also help you find an honest shipping company to transport your belongings to the new location.

Moving Scam – Origin of Word Scam

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Moving Scam – Origin of Word “Scam“.

The origins of the words scam go back into antiquity, through many derivations. The modern form of the word is first noted in a 1963 entry in an American slang dictionary. It is considered a “carnival term of unknown origin. Perhaps it’s related to 19th century. British slang scamp “cheater, swindler” This is the most plausible explanation of the word and provides a clue for further research.

In a dictionary published in 1837, the word scamp is defined as “do in a hasty manor.” From this reference, it is traced back to a Scandinavian source. The origin n Old Norse, from which the word may have derived is the word “skemma” to shorten. And “skemma” is believed to derive from skammr “short.” Thus far, imagistic ally, we can see a definite relation to the word scam. A scam artist, for example, might “short” his customer by not providing him with the full value of the service requested. He might do this by providing service in a hasty manor.

In this line of thought, the origin of the word seems to be the Old Norse word skamt, a form of skammer which dervies from the Proto German skamma related to the old OE scamm, all meaning “short.” The word scant, itself is said to have derived back in 1350 from the Old Norse word skamt, a form of skammr, which derives from the P Germanic skamma. So directly or indirectly, it appears that scam derives from the Germanic skamma, and the OE scamm, Interestingly, all of these terms are related to the old Germanic word. skemmen “to shorten” . Since taking off the top of something will shorten it, the word skemmen is sometimes taken to mean “hornless,” and one must wonder if there is a connection to the word” skim,” since the skimming process takes the top off of a food product. In any case, one might tie the meanings together, when one considers again, that a scam artist, “shorts,” a person.

Yet another possible derivation of the word scam goes through the word scamper, which means to run away. Scamper is related to the “Flem. schampeeren, frequentative of schampen “run away,” from O.N.Fr. escamper (O.Fr. eschamper) “to run away, flee,” from V.L. *excampare “decamp,” lit. “leave the field,” from L. ex campo, from ex “out of” + campo, ablative of campus “field” Both scamp, a likely derivative of scam, and scamper, connote haste. While it might be the result of coincidence more than intent, it’s worth noting that people who do scams, such as people who do moving scams frequently scamper away to avoid being caught.

Should the word scam derive from the word scamper, it is interesting to note that the Latin word campuse is related to the Proto Indo European word kampos a “corner” or “cove” from the base word kamp – “to bend”

It would be interesting to know if there is a Semitic derivation for the word scam. The common origins of Semetic languages and Indo-European languages go back 60,000 years, so it is impossible to know for sure, however, it is tempting to suggest that the word Kpoph, meaning “to bend” is distantly related to kamp “to bend,” since both words have the K and P sounds.

This report was sponsored by Packing Service, Inc. and is a national chain dedicated to providing excellent packing and loading services. Packing service Inc offer Flat Rate Quotes and are dedicated to protecting consumers from moving scam, and takes time to educate their customers regarding the best way to transport their prized possessions form one location to another.