Starving Students

Huge disappointment

Complete disaster. They arrived an hour and a half early and bullied me into rushing. Then Starving students again believe me into paying $80 for materials when I had already taped and wrapped everything. They ruined two of my fabric shoeboxes and they won’t return my phone call asking for a Credit. And by the way none of them were students!

You get what you pay for?

Okay.. here's how the moving hilarity went down:

phone call at 7:45am on Monday telling me that since the moving truck is dispatched from the same town as me that it should arrive shortly.

I pull my fish out of the tank and we start dragging our 195 boxes onto the driveway, where they sit in the HOT sun for the next 4 hours.

Truck shows up at noon, one fish already dead and the others are looking wobbly..

The moving truck is the most hoopty looking vehicle I've ever seen.. parts of the top were duct-taped together where it had obviously smashed into a low overpass.

The three slacker dudes then take 4 hours to load the thing.. dropping boxes, spilling an entire Gatorade on a tv and other boxes, getting bike chain grease all over a mattress and other cushions because they are just piling [EDIT] up as high as it will go with no attempt at organization.. busted lamp, dinged up furniture, crushed boxes.. etc.

We're hauling out stuff as fast as we can and there isn't a moment during the move that at least one guy isn't just chilling and talking on his cell phone or standing in the truck and staring into space.

Nobody knows how to get to my new address so I explain the directions…

Fantastic

The estimates were way ofd. We needed an extra truck . Other than the unexpected added cost, these guys did great .I give them the highest recommendation and would absolutely hire them again.Fantastic! Alex and his team did an great job moving us.

Get a Professional Moving Company Instead.

I recently used Starving Students Moving. I selected Starving Students based on price and the expectations set with me by their scheduling representatives. My experience with Starving Students was different than the expectations I was led to believe. Their pricing was significantly higher both by how they represented when they start charging per hour and when they stop. Also, they added in additional fees. The overall price ended up being about 30% higher than it should have been based on the original expectations. By the way, my expectations were set and verified by 4 different scheduling representatives. I was surprised unfortunately.

Also, they took little care in tracking dirt-mud into my two houses. At the destination house, I personally had to run around trying to cover floors and steps as they didn.

Do Yourself a Favor And do Not Use These Guys!

These guys were scheduled to arrive at 8:30AM and showed up at 2:30PM and informed me that I had not packed enough and they would return the next day, since they claimed to be fast and didn't want to wait for me. The next day a different crew was scheduled for 9:30AM and showed up at 6:00 PM. We rescheduled for a third try. They arrived at 9:30 with a third guy and I was hit with extra fees for PUC, Workman's Comp., Double-Drive Time, etc., which would add an additional 25% to the bill I did not have time to get other movers at this point so we began. Every hour or two, the guys went for a "cigar" break. I would later find out that it was not really a cigar. Somewhere during the move, over $4000 worth of jewelry went missing, along with a prescription for Oxycontin from years earlier (and that's just what I know is missing so far). A few of the items are irreplaceable heirlooms. For example, one of the rings is (was) all I have left of my late father's possessions.

I emailed Melanie in claims who told me that it was "ridiculous" to think that employees would smoke pot right in front of a customer and that there was no "evidence" that a theft had occurred, despite a filed police…

Stay Away.

This company is awful in every way I can imagine. First, they mislead you with pricing, they showed up late, they were S-L-O-W, did not give inventory until move was completed, which took an extraordianry amount of time. The inventory list was written illegible and indicated that every item I had was already damaged! They didn't know what they were doing, how to pack the truck, how to efficiently and effectively move items without damage. I have seen my stuff moved professionally, quick, and safe, so I can compare! Every single thing ended up scratched or broken. They put wholes in walls and gouged wood floors. I moved all of the boxes myself. I am a small woman and was faster than the 3 guys were! I only moved 3 blocks and it took them 10 hours, plus wanted to charge nearly $300 in fuel costs and other charges (never disclosed up front)on top of hourly rate.

The comapny then bullied me by threats of collection, etc and did not want to hear about my issues. They also said I could not make claims when I did not pay my bill in full. I soon relaized that I needed to end this misery and settle. I am eating all of the damage that they did and paid them the hourly rate quoted. The…

LAIRS - CHEATERS - Going to hell!

This pathetic operation is so dishonest till it is pathetic. They showed up 2 hours late with two kids (Not professional movers)and a person who was so scared of his boss till he was simply a punk. They tried to cushion the start time. They lied about giving information about the $250.00 deposit. I was ONLY informed of that when they got there. Then the punk took his precious time to move my things. Started arguing with the boys stopping progress. Loud in the hall of my building. They put my mattress on the ground in the stairwell up against the wall. The head person (punk) yelled at me, and used porfanity. They didn't wrap a sinlge piece of furniture but put on the invoice Shrink wrap.. They tried to charge me for 5 men and that wasn't about to happen. I had to move ALL of my clothes and many other items BY MYSELF up 5 flights of steps since my building does not have an elevator. That menas I had to load my car several times, travel to my new place unload and go back for more. It took me two more days to get everything done and I got sick. They lied about "No Surprises" and then cushioned the time after they finished..(they workd 3 1/2 hours they put on the invoice 4.5hours) I…

Con Artists.

These guys from Tempe Starving Students were supposed to move us between 8:00 and noon, and didn't even call until after noon. The guys showed up with a 32(?) foot truck for our nice little 1474 sq. foot house. We had already moved our arts, mirrors, computers, and musicals instruments. They knew we were only moving two miles away and loaded all the small stuff into the truck first, not having room for our two bikes and our three ladders (6, 8, and 10 ft). When we complained that they should have enough room for things, they made room for the 6- and 8-foot ladders (the ones we could have moved with our Camry), not the 10-footer. They were bucking for extra time and trip all along. NEVER AGAIN.

Starving Students.

This was the worst experience of my life. I have moved mulitple times and have never been treated with such disrespect. They picked up in a beat up truck wearing dirty t shirts and then told me it would be no problem to change arrival date in California. They then asked me to tip them before leaving. I did not hear from then again until I called one day before delivery was due. I was then advised it would be another two weeks before I received my belongings with no specific date. After mulitple phone calls and another week I finally received a due date, which was then delayed another two days. My boxes were severely damaged and at least six were wet with unknown liquid. They forgot a bed frame which took another two weeks to receive-damaged. Starving Students had stopped taking my calls and told me to talk to Able Moving. They were rude and blamed me for using "bad" boxes. Extremely unprofessional.

30 days after pick up no delivery.

I have moved 1000 miles from my home. The moving company did not show up to move me on time. Wrong day. A tiny couple rolled out of a rental truck at 5 pm. 5 hours later the truck was too full to fit everything by ten at night I had no choice but to pay a junker to take the rest of my things. I'm still waiting since may 16 for my belongings. No one returns calls today they say I might get my things Monday or Tuesday next week, but they can't promise. That's June I am sick. Sleeping on a floor. Still. The starving student Vice President did not tell me they subcontract the jobs out. I feel lied to, disregarded and treated by starving students like I was a pest. Today I called every 30 minutes till they just went home.