Moving companies
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Topic: Moving companies
Posted By: hannibal
Subject: Moving companies
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 9:48am
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We are currently on the move back to the North Island - just wondering if any one has any recommendations (or disaster) stories on moving companies. Thanks
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Posted By: fairy1
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 10:11am
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My family use to move around a lot when we were younger and we always used Crown movers and never had any problems with them. Salvation Army used to (may still do but I'm not in those circles currently) and never had any concerns.
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 10:33am
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We used Crown recently and would go there again. Nothing major, but lots of little communication problems and a few broken peices (nothing worth claiming insurance on, but a PITA nonetheless). If you want more info on the problems feel free to pm me.
A lady I used to work with moved a lot and always used vanlines, she only has good things to say about them. -------------  
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Posted By: kat_hutch
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 1:40pm
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we're moving next week, and from word of mouth etc we've been told van lines are one of the better companies. we rang around about half a dozen and they were the best price too. ------------- 
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 2:47pm
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We used Crown - possibly my only complaint as such was that we paid for an unpack at the other end and they didn't really. We pretty much unpacked ourselves. They did the major stuff, but it was a $6K+ bill to go from Auckland to Wellington. We didn't feel it justified a complaint though as the rest of their service was excellent. ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 3:03pm
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Gee Ginger, that seems pricy considering we have just moved Aussie-NZ with full container and a car for only about $12,000.
We went with Allied Pickfords when we moved over to Aussie, they were really good, we used them again when we moved across the country and they were good again. Then we tried to get a quote for moving back to NZ and never heard from them despite many emails so they were put in the 'useless' pile! We have been dealing with NZ Van Lines since our stuff arrived in NZ and they have been so helpful and easy to deal with, but I can't comment on cost as we didn't actually move with them, they are just our NZ agent. ------------- 
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Posted By: kiwigal
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 4:02pm
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We moved from Auckland to Hawkes Bay and used a company called U move and they were brilliant they were just over $2k |
Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 6:35pm
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The crown price was about $6k for us (Palmerton North to Neson, 6 weeks ago) and like Ginger said, that was supposed to include unpacking too, but didn't. All the did was set our bed up.
Shop around for insurance too. Crown quoted us about $1200, but after ringing our insurance company discovered we were covered in transit. -------------
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Posted By: hannibal
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 6:59pm
| Thanks we are getting a quote from Vanlines we liked the lady who came around yesterday - just wasn't sure how good they were. Allied was who we used when we came down - but we can't get them by email either so that doesn't inspire me to use them. |
Posted By: pudgy
Date Posted: 05 May 2011 at 8:49pm
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We haven't moved yet but have had really good service and quote from world moving and storage, I have heard good things about them . Will def be using them when we move
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