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June 25, 2005 10:29 AM
Broken: Many moving companies
Paul Schreiber points us to movingscam.com, which promises "The truth about the moving industry, moving companies, van lines, moving, movers."
Okay, to sign up for the MovingScam newsletter, which is FREE, please send us your name, address, phone number, credit card number(s), ATM card(s), (please inc. pin(s)) and any other financial information you feel can help us STOP MOVING SCAMS!
Okay, to sign up for the MovingScvam newsletter, which is FREE, please send us your name, address, phone number, credit card number(s), ATM card(s), (please inc. pin(s)) and any other financial information you feel can help us STOP MOVING SCAMS!
I'm not seeing this newsletter sign up.... Is someone sad because he can't say "no your br0k3n!!!1!!one!!"?
I glanced at the Licence Agreement and all the third party stuff looked a little shady to me. I was also turned off by there being no guentee in accuracy in any of the content.
i've looked this over, i dont see whats broken here, this looks like a site meant to help people from being scammed by moving companies, this is not a moving company itself
Well, I'd just like to point out the fact that they ripped off their menu buttons at the top from www.phpBB.com. Check out the menu icons on both sites. I can definately tell you that they are phpBB orginals, not the other way around.
I also don't see what is broken I see a web site to warn movers about the possibility of being scammed what's so broken about that?
I agree with the other posters that said they can't find what's wrong with it. Would someone like to tell us exactly what IS wrong with it? And please, don't say it's the newsletter sign up, one, I can't find the link and, two, if I could, I wouldn't.
Can you people not read (especially Kyle, Kent, and Jon, who asked the same question after Alden Bates re-iterated the point of the post)? The entry points to a site that lists all the broken things about moving companies. It's not the website that is broken, it's the moving companies.
Just posting in agreement with Sheesh! also kyle of coarse they are going to use the phpBB icons, some sites are more concered with content over spending time on customized grpahics and of coarse the black list is gonna have a disclaimer like that, you don't want a larger company bringing you to court.
"How did we get here? The interstate HHG moving industry was "price-deregulated" with the Household Goods Transportation Act of 1980. This Act allowed interstate movers to issue binding or fixed estimates for the first time. Until then, the moving industry was overseen by the ICC like a public utility (like phone and electricity services). There were only a handful of companies, known as the major van lines, that were allowed to transport household goods interstate, and they all charged according to their tariff -- a schedule of rates and services -- which had a built-in profit. ALL estimates were non-binding. Movers sold themselves on service, not price. The profit margin was very thin, but there was profit."
This sounds like a load ...
Sheesh! I understand that the broken is many moving companies. However, since the link is a warning to future would be movers wouldn't the link be more of a fix?
To everyone complaining about the icons, looks like they did that for consistancy, since their site uses phpbb, and the header is identical through the site.
Oh, and it's the brokenness of moving companies that scares me enough to move myself again. Changing price tactics, lock your stuff up in storage. The local news does a story twice a year.
Thanks for that link. My boyfriend is about to move and that whole thing makes me nervous. I always felt moving companies had big loopholes. There are too many things to get away with, not to mention complete disrespect and carelessness that they might break something and claim they didn't do it.
Shame.
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It must be a scam!!
Posted by: someone at June 25, 2005 10:44 AM