Cardinal Moving Systems

YOOOOO! STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY CON-ARTIST! Other alias names are: city moving company, move happy moving company, guardian moving company and another one I can't remember..but STAY THE FUCK AWAY! ..I got ripped off with my truck transportation financial bill when I had to drop it off at Matson. Then they damaged my bike when it arrived yesterday. They "claim" or "advertise" they are professional but after taking a chance with them, I learned in my experience these guys false advertise their services. Actions speak louder than words and its a dangerous game they are playing with good, hard working peoples money the way they do. I hope I'm the last review for this company so no one else has to go through this. The BBB needs to investigate and shut down this company.

Move size: 1 Bedroom Home Service cost: $4325

I moved with Cardinal 3 times and Ihave had pretty good experiences so far. One of the times there was damage to my TV screen, but it was just tape that came off with cleaner. This last move about a month ago was the best yet. We had three guys, their names were Jose g., Frank, and Payton, who were so friendly and easy to work with. They made the move so easy. They were also easy to communicate with and took care of our stuff as if it were their own. They were courteous, hard-working and respectful, and my 70" television was moved without a hitch!If I could be guaranteed to get these three guys again, I will always choose Cardinal.

Service cost: $1256

This review is based on our experiences thus far..first we called and got the information for our vehicle, which was supposed to take 3 weeks, approximately, from shore to shore. Ok, we thought, let's ship it early enough so that it is available for pick up right after we land back on the mainland. Nothing was mentioned during the transaction period that we would be charged a daily fee to store our vehicle once it got there. Alas..the sucking away of our hard earned dollars had begun. Our truck arrived in lightspeed time..we started getting calls and emails daily telling us to pick up our truck. LOL, we still had 2 weeks until we flew off the island. We had to pay them to hold our truck for us, even though THEY misquoted the time it would take for it to ship. Included in the process were all of the hassles of miscommunication between the sales people, us, and the actual shipping people. Harrowing moments spent making desperate phone calls to the main office for info. There was an area at the shipping depot where all of the desperate customers went, a sort of 'freak out and call your salesperson lounge', where all of the customers were gathered making loud and shrill voiced calls to their respective 'contacts' regarding their vehicles. Wow! I went to the rental car and let my fiancee do the dance of desperation with all the other people. SO! THEN..being the kind of folks who like simple, friendly, and helpful sales people..well, of course we booked our household move with Cardinal..yay! We liked Frank. The projected time frame from HI house to OR house was 3-4 weeks..we assumed it would be a bit longer, figured in the cost of rental furniture on both ends, paper supplies for our dining needs, and calculated the best date to schedule pickup in HI so as to alleviate a long lag on the other end (the family is travelling all over the place and we didn't want to leave grandma at home to tend to the movers..she's 82 for crying out loud!) And, here I sit..its been a day or two shy of 4 weeks..haven't heard a word. My fiancee called them this morning and was told 'well, we are running at least 21 days out..so, it could be 3-6 weeks..we'll call you.' NO FREAKING WAY! Now my 82 year old mother in law, and her caretaker (luckily she is just turning 50 and is disabled,,,much better to deal with the movers), get to deal with the movers, cuz the rest of us young and spry folk in our clan will be travelling. SO: caveat; IF you plan to spend more money on your vehicle shipping than planned, plus the joy of getting dunning calls from the reception site, and include that into your budget..plus..click click of the calculator keys..add 45 days to the quoted time for your furniture move, by all means, use this company! Overall, it was the hardest thing EVER, to move from Oahu to the mainland..crying teens, sad grandma who doesn't want to be chilly, even us adults who will miss plate lunches, slippers, and even 'Hawaiian time', mahalo very much..but to have the wonder of these added benefits? Well, I would rather have known what I was dealing with..oh, wait, I thought it did! LOL. Stay tuned..after I go call Rent-A-Center and design some furniture out of household garbage I will start a little journal of the days I spend waiting. Eventually I will try to provide the total time for our move,if and when it ever happens (I hold faith that we will actually get our stuff), and post it for all on this site to see. Oh, wait, an afterthought: I don't think we even got a list from the movers in HI (who were AWESOME, they were the greatest..seriously, they did the job for Cardinal,,darn, who were they? I will check) for our total count (boxes/furniture.) I would double check with the big guy, but he took mom out for a jog and power lifting class in prep for her big day with the movers.

Service cost: $8000

This  company doesn't know what it's doing.  had to call them when I picked up my truck in Maui because it was assigned to be picked up by a Laura and NOT BY ME.   When I shipped my truck back to Henderson, NV  there were delays after delays and Cardinal and Ronnie the dispatcher lied saying my truck was going to be picked up on New Year's Eve (12/31/12) and delivered by 3pm to NV on the same day.  Call after call was never returned to me and I made8 calls to Cardinal one day and 5 the previous day.   These guys are a joke.  they alreay have my monies and really don't seem to care one bit about me and their ad saying that the move would be stress free is even a bigger joke.
aS OF TODAY 12/31/12 1pm a new person on the end of the phone says:  the truck will be picked up on wednesday and delivered to me on thursday.
 
This company should be reported to the Dept of Transportation
if for no other reason than they are ALL INCOMPETENT!!
 
 
 DON'T USE THIS COMPANY.  THEY ARE THE WORST.

Service cost: $1450

These people will promise you the world. But they don't seem to stop and listen to what they are selling you and then back it up. A quote will stick when they are selling it. But when it comes down to completing the order they either do not proceed and or change the price. These people CANNOT BE TRUSTED. The story changes from day to day including who the owner is and who they claim they are firing to make you happy. They are such liars! I wish there was more that could be done to keep people who do business like they do, out of the business. I spent a ton of money coming out to arrange things for the move as they told me to. Then just before leaving I confirmed everything was done and ready to go. But no one was ever around to wrap things up every time I called over and over, with no messages passed along and no follow up replies. Then another person said they could help, but stated that they cannot provide the service I was sold. If I have to go back it will cost me thousands again to fix what they told me to do. They have now shipped my truck after telling me it was abandoned in Long Beach of all places. Now I will have to pay additional car rental fees on top of new hotel fees to fix this mess. Do not use these people. They claim to be a "stress free" moving company. That's a load of . . .

Service cost: $1000

We had Cardinal Moving Systems (CMS) ready to come pick up our household goods on October 22 (2011). When I spoke with them on Tuesday, October 18th, we confirmed the pick up date and I told them that I would reconfirm a day or two before. I called that Thursday and also Friday to reconfirm the Saturday pick up day, but only received voicemail. I left two messages one each day. When Saturday Oct. 22 arrived, we waited for CMS to come get our things. No one showed up. Finally, a dispatcher called and said they had us down for next week to pick up our things. I reassured him that today was the pick up day. Then he said he had the pick up scheduled for Monday the 24th. I told him that for the past two months that I had been speaking with Noel from CMS that we were flying out on the 24th and everything needed to be out and cleaned by that day (at the very latest). He told me everything would be arranged and everything would go smoothly. I gave him a deposit, and now when October 24th arrived they were canceling the pick up. They told me they would try and get someone out maybe later in the day and that they would call me back and let me know..I waited until 8pm that night, and no one came or ever called me back as promised. The next day was Sunday, and we were to leave the island on Monday morning. We are amazed at the dishonesty, lack of promises and communication and disrespect that this company gave us. They tried so hard to get our business to fall through and leave us with no where to turn and no common decency toward us. It's tough to be stranded with two days to go and no where to turn, then the movers pull a stunt like this.

Service cost: $3000

I am posting this here after my first review for my recent service was deleted from Yelp. Here's my experience:
 
I used them in my move from LA to Maui and they did a great job. However, 2 years later, I used them again in a job related move to Montana. I contacted my previous rep, and everything went smooth..until the 3 day window for moving. 
 
The day before flying to Montana, the movers (AFTER trying to cancel) were 4 hours late, arriving at 8:20p (4 hours past the latest time they were supposed to arrive) and we couldn't load up because my storage place had closed. Because of this, I missed most of my going away party with all of my friends. So the only choice was to return next day, which ran so late, I basically was sprinting to make my plane flight. I tried to contact my rep, and told him I was upset and could anything be done to help make this right..and he completely ignored me. I tried several more times in the coming weeks, but still ignored.
 
I shipped my stuff July 13th, and was told it would go to Seattle, in roughly a month, and head to Montana. Instead..they shipped it to Los Angeles, and as a result, it is now 10/15, and I am getting  my stuff 90 DAYS after I shipped!! During this time, the communication has been non-existent. Every time I call, noone can take my call..everytime I email- I have been completely ignored.
 
So as a result, I'm posting this review to advise you to RUN!! Do NOT use this company for ANYTHING. Read about them on Yelp- there are more stories than mine. .

Service cost: $3150

I engaged Cardinal Moving Systems to move a large household from Northern California to Maui.  the team that picked up my goods arrived on time, but with too small a truck to handle the job.  They were unable to finish on time, and failed to load some items the next day. The experience on Maui was horrible.  Cardinal failed to appear on the first two dates THEY picked to deliver the goods.  When they did arrive, their team was very young and inexperienced, and ill equipped.  They could not finish the job in one day.  They crashed their truck into my house on the second day.  They lost 5 boxes.  They damaged several items of furniture.  It would have been much worse if I had not stepped in and provided they with some equipment to help them. What was even worse was the dispute resolution procedure.  Cardinal never admited responsability for crashing into my house.  The entire process of negotiating an amount for the damages was a joke, the worst of which was that in order to receive any payment, I had to agree to remove any negative reveiws I had written on the internet. These people cannot be trusted.

Service cost: $17515

BEWARE-PREDATORY BUSINESS !
Cardinal Moving Systems charged me double than they quoted me for a move from New York City to Hawaii.
Their agent never came to assess the property that needed to be moved, although they claimed they have an office in the New York area.
The salesman from Cardinal Moving Systems gave me an assessment over the phone and told me it will cost me $2664.35 total. That was a lie.
On the day of the move, after the moving crew packed everything in the truck, and locked it, the foreman told me I was over the quote and overcharged me for a total of $5650.85
That was $3000 more than quoted and I had to pay, since the truck was packed and locked. Typical moving scam, as I later read on www.moving.com. The fine print contract stipulates that every extra cubic feet will be charged $10.
After I paid in full, the moving company grossly mishandled my property and destroyed over 26 items to include Vintage Herodyne Radio, Vintage Gossip Bench, chairs which the moving workers pilled one on top of each other and then wrapped, Tiffany lamp, armoire, an antique Tal Tree Coat rack hanger whose iron hooks were broken in half, crystal glasses, Lennox Abigail dinner plates, antique Gingerbread Wall clocks, not to mention even an antique Hamilton pocket watch that was wrapped in bubble wrap and placed in a cigar box.
The boxes were all severely damaged and were proof of how badly my property was mishandled. On top of the quote scam, the moving company added at least $3000 in property damage.
I filled an extensive claim in November 2015 and only in June 2016 I received a settlement letter after many inquiries. It was in the amount of $150.60. After all this company has done wrong, now they added insult to injury and offered me $150.60 and a release form to release them from all future claims, law suits, complaints or bad reviews. They can keep their ridiculous settlement and I keep my right to post reviews and complaints to any and all websites or Government Agencies.
My advice, STAY AWAY ! Look for a reputable company, that has an office where you live.
Cardinal Moving Systems needs to be shut down and all their agents fined for misleading customers.

Service cost: $5600