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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 – Get Your Belongings

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Moving Scam, Get Your Belongings.

How to Get Your Goods Close To Your Door When the Moving Truck Can’t?

Most of the time when moving long distance, the estimate cost that a moving company will give you includes many assumptions. One example is that the van will be able to deliver the goods from the truck to the door. But sometimes, the van won’t fit into the private access road, driveway or complex leading to the homeowner’s entrance way. When this occurs, the moving company and the home owner are bound by a tariff agreement which provides that the homeowner will pay extra for a service to shuttle his goods from the truck to his home entrance.

But what happens, now, if the situation is more complicated, and the homeowner and truck driver disagree, as to whether the truck can approach the house. In this situation, moving tariff’s specifically spell out that the driver has the right to decide if entering the road or driveway will potentially endanger his truck or cause damage to property. And if he believes there is a chance of damage, he has the right to refuse to drive close to the house, and the homeowner must choose one of the other means to bring his goods into carrying range of the home.

It is only right that the truck driver should have the final say. He is the one who bears responsibility for any damage; he is the one who would have to answer to any damage to the truck.

In truth, more and more scrutiny is being given to the problem of interstate van lines trying to pull up close to a small apartment dwelling in a residential complex. Many complexes, in California, for example, ban trucks over 40 feet long, and even these vehicles are only permitted to enter during the day.

Now, what about the extreme case, where the driver is lying, because he works for a moving scam company that deliberately wants to push up the cost of the move. In that case, it is best to play along with the company and try to gain back the lost money through arbitration. Stopping the move to argue about the problem only prolongs the work time and risks incurring steep overtime charges. Afterward, the victim can go to arbitration. However, considering the costs of the long carry and a shuttle, a victim is unlike to gain much if any compensation through legal means as the court costs will eat up any possible gain.

How do shipping and moving companies charge for a Long Distance move?

They charge by Cubic Feet or by the amount of Weight, and Packing Materials needed:

Cubic Feet: Cubic feet means by space: the more space your items take up in their truck the more money you will pay.

Weight: The companies will weigh the truck before they show up at your doorstep, to know the weight before placing your items inside. After your items are loaded, they will go back to weight the truck again. This will determine the difference in weight and ultimately how much you’ll end up paying.

Packing: When it comes to long distance shipping, the company will charge for the packing and shipping materials used and not for their time.

One Reputable company you can count on is Packing Service, Inc. who offer Flat Rate Quote Guarantying the price with the completion of the move in writing. Our motto is to help you avoid Moving Scam.

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.