Who Is To Blame In Moving Scams, The Broker Or The Mover?
When a consumer goes onto the Internet looking for a low cost moving deal, chances are he will end up signing with a moving broker. Moving brokers catch people with nice looking web sites that offer people a chance to move with them. They have a moving cost estimator, and they rope people in with a low moving cost estimate. Then they look around for a moving company to make the actual move. Unbeknown to the consumer, moving companies have a system for bidding on jobs, and eventually a company will offer to move the goods. In the meantime, the household items are frequently picked up by a local company that shows up with a rental truck and places the goods in storage until an interstate mover is located.
[spin] Once the mover gets the bid, he has to make up for his meager pay – the low ball moving price less the hefty commission taken out by the broker. Most moving companies will recompense themselves by using a series of tricky maneuvers to raise the cost of the move as much as two times or more the original move cost estimate, whether “binding” or “non-binding.”
So ethically, who’s to blame for moving scams. The question may be like asking what comes first the chicken or the egg. The two choices are the broker who sets up the scam when he ropes in a customer with a low ball estimate, or the mover who uses a series of tricks to raise the price and bilk the customer?
“OK boys and girls it’s not the broker that changes the final price of the move, it’s the mover….. I do a few moves for them (AMS), (the brokers), they as a whole are not bad people BUT the DAMN MOVERS THEMSELVES ARE THE ONES. All of the moves have not been train wrecks….It never ceases to amaze me the tricks they use (they being scammers or scammers in training). These folks I am with currently are in training – they want to do right but the folks they are in the pool with are doing wrong.”
This unfortunate mover is confessing that the scam movers not only do the tricks, they also train others to do the tricks that raise the price of the move. However, that’s not the whole story. A fellow participant on the anti-scam bulletin board noted that brokers are also to blame for the problems.
“The brokers indeed aren’t the ones changing the price, they pull in the customer with the low price and leave room for the mover to do whatever they want, which includes trying to make a profit off the low balled customer the broker has assigned the”
So in the end, it takes two people to tango. The brokers who charge the inappropriately low fees, and the movers who use scam tricks to raise the prices.
Thanks to Packing Service, a packing service company opposed to moving scams, for bring this report.
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