DO NOT USE All My Sons Moving & Storage
Bob Pinz
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All My Sons
Review made Live: 5/9/2014 6:42:00 PM
I was quoted a price by All My Sons Moving & Storage, and was forced to pay 46% more than quoted, or I would have lost one-half of my belongings. I hired, via the internet, All My Sons Moving & Storage of Bradenton / Sarasota / St. Petersburg on or about 5/1/14. I received a phone call from their owner a couple days before the move, which was scheduled on 5/9/14. We spoke for 20 minutes; we negotiated a final and total price of $119.00 per hour, plus 1 hour travel time. The movers arrived at 9:15 am. I received a phone call from the new house at 4:15 pm, the movers wanted to get paid in full up until 6 pm. They said they were not moving anything else off the truck until they were paid in full. I went there and asked for a price. The total time was 8.75 hours, plus 1 hour travel is 9.75 total hours, multiplied by $119.00 per hour, which would be $1160.25. No, they demanded just under $1,600.00, or they would keep the rest of my belongings that were yet to be unloaded from the moving truck. I was put on the phone with the owner, he rambled on and on, item after item, of extra charges that were never disclosed to me. In particular, not in the prior phone conversation we had. The most egregious of all was that he wanted me to pay his employees for overtime. When I mentioned this to his employees, they said "we get this all the time", followed by "we work for tips only". Now, how can the owner demand overtime for his employees when they work for tips only and are not paid? Someone at All My Sons Moving & Storage is lying. I felt sorry for the three guys and gave them $120, which was $40 a piece. This just added to my costs. The price should have been $1160 according to the 20 minute phone conversation I had with the owner, but it would up at $1700 with tip (which I paid only because they said they weren't paid). That is a 46% charge over what I was told by the owner during our 20 minute phone conversation. In addition, All My Sons Moving & Storage sent a truck far too small, either on purpose or because they are incompetent, to complete the job in one trip. They wanted to go back and get my additional belongings that they couldn't put on the truck the first time. That could have doubled my price because at that time the employees that "worked for tips only" were on overtime for their boss. After being coerced out of an extra $540, I wasn't, nor couldn't afford to have them continue their pre-meditated, well-orchestrated scheme. Now, I still have a house full of belongings that I have to pay another moving company to move. What I was lead to believe was going to cost me $1160, is going to cost more than double because of All My Sons Moving & Storage. This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as this scheme went. It went on to include an attempted fuel surcharge, tape, cardboard, overtime, and things I don't even know anything about. This was a total scam from beginning to end. I'll get by, but some customers with limited funds could wind up losing half of their possessions to this company. It's no wonder that they also have a "storage" facility. How many poorer people's belongings are in there?
