Hmm. Triple charging and showing up six days late sounds like a breech of contract to me. I think America is calling and she's saying, "Dooce, be a good litigeous citizen and sue. SUE!"

Guess who just called?

Hey Dooce-O-Matic...I feel your pain. I just moved to Toronto from Vancouver, and had been given the heads-up on mover scams. I had a quality shipping scale with me at my house, and we weighed everything before it went on the truck. The driver signed off on the weights, and I got the movers to agree that my scale would not be more than 5% off. The upshot? My load was 40% lighter than they thought it was. I moved over 3000 miles for under $1500 CDN. They're all A$$H0LES, and you've got to watch their every move. Seriously.

You need to rock their little fucking world so hard. So fucking hard. This shit pisses me off so much. The same crap when you take your car to the shop and they take advantage because they have all the cards. You must fuck them so hard they fucking bleed. Rage. Rage. RAGE!!!!!

Moving's always a pain in the ass. That's why I insist on using a giant catapult instead of a moving truck.

Sounds like you're getting scammed. I saw something about moving companies doing this, so you might want to research... I could understand if it was something little like an extra $100 because you lived on the 4th floor or something, but triple?!? And $700 for boxing items that sure don't sound like they need boxing?

Come on now! You admitted that every journal since you were 4 yrs old is on that truck.

How do you expect them to read all that and *still* be able get through all those boxes looking for stuff to "lose" in only 6 days?

I bet if you let them pack it would've arrived quicker. Then they would already know where all the good loot was stashed.

careful, dooce. a friend had the same thing happen a couple years ago - except she couldn't come up with the extra dough. and she lost everything. didn't get one thing back. assholes.

Fuck, that sucks. It's the not knowing that'll kill ya.

Packing things like boxed books and a futon in additional boxes in order to pad packing charges constitutes fraud. (I think 60 minutes or Hard Copy or some show did an expose on fraudulent movers who do this, among other things.) If they threaten to hold your stuff hostage until you pay, point to the extra boxing and tell them you're calling the police.

These movers deserve to piledriven, hit with steel chairs and thrown to rabid (Moon)dogs. (And given my background, I can have that arranged.) Hope you find some solace in the fact that others continue to feel the pain of your move. Parked snugly in front of your former aforementioned storage space on Saturday, again basking in the independence of my new space. Two hours later, noticed that i had been cited by an evil cock-sucking parking nazi; seems my VW was "one-inch" over the alloted space, carelessly blocking the path of dog-walkers and orthodox jews in the 'hood. sweet banana fuck. on the bright side, noticed that previous tenants left behind a broom and a near-full box of trash bags. life is good. i'm sure of it.

What is the name of the moving company? I'm sure that none of us would ever want to do business with them. Oh, and I would double check your stuff when it arrives to make sure everything is definitley there. People, go figure.

So *that's* what that big-ass truck trying to turn around in my driveway was all about.

Anything involving moving is highly suspect, almost always unexthical. Wait till you get your stuff before taking serious action. And talk to a lawyer. And the BBB. And the Chamber of Commerce. And start watching the Soprano's for research.

The website link is for the Department of Transportation regarding moving companies. Hope it helps. We are about to move from Cal. to Mass. and your story is pretty scary!