Do not use this moving company: A Trinity Moving

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We moved from a townhouse to a single home in Barrhaven. We used A Trinity Moving. We thought this moving company is listed on BBB (Better Business Bureau), therefore, it can be trusted. It turned out to be worst choice we ever made.

We moved on July 30th. Prior to this date, we moved all the boxes ourselves including dishes, clothes, books, small appliances and household itemsbecause we took possession of the new home prior to the closing of our old home. On the moving date, we had ONLY furniture left, 40 pieces together and an upright piano.

We chose the option of 4 men at $125.00. They charge $150 flat fee to move the piano. We thought more menpower equals speedier service, thus, savings on the moving cost. Guess how long it took 4 men to move our furniture? 6.5 hours in total! Can you imagine, it took them 4.5 hours to load and 2 hours to unload.

They are very careful about moving the furniture, everthing was covered by blanket and then shrink-wrapped. But they are slow like snails. Only 2 men out of 4 have more than 2 years of experience. The other 2 just wait around for orders - never took initiatives to move things on their own.

This compnay even tried to charge me for packaging materials (tapes they used to shrink wrap) which I refused bluntly. It is so absurd. In the end, we paid $1087.63 to move our furnitures.

When we triied to contact this company after the move to complain about the speed of the move. The rep told us that our expectaiton (of getting the move done under 4 hour) was unreasonable and that 6.5 hours was reasonable. She said if we do not care to protect the furniture, we should tell them so it will take them less time. What a rediculous argument!

Lessons learned: We are not recommending this company (A Trinity Moving) to anyone. And if you need to hire a moving company, try to get a fix price instead of paying by hour. They may quote a low price but take forever to move. (It is more beneficial to the moving company to move slowly so they can charge you more.)
 
Yes, please do not use this moving company.

This company spent 8.5 hrs to move our furnitures(Only one bedroom's furnitures) and damaged the floor and wall of our new home. We moved on Aug. 03, 2010, still the damages have not been fixed.
 
我最近也刚搬家,打电话问了好多家搬家公司,还没听说过哪家收fixed-priced。。都是按小时收钱外加travel time。

我请的是Gerry's Moving,可能是运气不太好,那三个人年龄比较大,同lz一样,我们也是只有家具和电器给他们搬,其他的都自己和朋友搞定了。两个房子相距不到20分钟的车程。。。他们也收了6.5个小时的钱。
 
You shall file a complaint in BBB so a lot more people would see it before making their decision for moving.

For your reference, you should always negotiate a flat fee before moving, instead of hiring anyone to move by hourly rate. With the temporarily hourly employment like this, they could take numerous coffee-break, lunch break, cigarette break, elevator waiting, packing, etc. In fact, you were luck that they finished moving within 6.5 hours. Two weeks ago a friend of mine hired a moving company to move from a two-bedroom apartment to a single house. It took they 8.5 hours to move all previously packed boxes and furniture. They were on hourly wage.

Moving companies generally don't care your complaints because they know you won't move again for at least a few years and their staffs keep changing.

A few years ago when we moved from a townhouse to a single, we shopped around for a flat fee and discussed all details prior to the moving. On the moving day, the moving guys were so rush to finish ours within 2 hours including a piano, numerous boxes, and all furniture, because they wanted to go to another family to move after ours. This is human nature.
 
I used A Trinity Moving too two weeks ago. We managed to get the moving done within 3 hours (minimum charge), because I had all small items packed in boxes and put them all on the main floor which saved a lot of time. They did wrap furnitures which I thought it was a good protection, except for some light furnitures I told them not necessarily wrapped. The only wrap material I paid was a huge plastic for the mattress, which they said it was extra, about $11.00. The 3 movers are experienced and nice.

However when every thing was done and I attempted to pay by credit card, their portable casher machine did not work and I paid cash. A week after I found my credit card was charged twice by the moving company. I will have to contact them to get the refund. However there was nobody taking the phone as always, and it took forever to get them responding the message. For one week I am still fighting with them to get the money back.


A friend of mine used this company end of June, the moving scheduled at 3:00pm, but movers showed up at 10:00pm. My friend called the company, but nobody took the phone as always, he had to wait, wait, and wait.

I will see if I can get my credit by this weekend. Otherwise I will file a complaint with BBB.
 
I guess I am lucky then:) I used this company to move but only cost me less than 500, which includes 150$ for piano moving. And I got lots of stuff to move too(a full truck). But I paid tips at the very first begining though and maybe that made the difference. They moved all within 3 hours(3 men).
 
一些老外的搬家公司是比较黑阿,看来天下乌鸦一般... 帮我朋友般的事中东人,别人2小时搞定的,他们弄了4小时,中途还搞消失...
 
晕呀,听你们这样子说,哪一间搬运公司才好呀,我们下个月也要搬家了。最近联系了一下CARGO ONE,不知道好不好呀,你们怎么要6.5个小时呢。TNND,上次我们自己搬家,叫亲戚帮开车。不用2个小时我们就搞掂了。只是一个两房一厅的东西而已。请大家指教一下。
 
if u pay be credit card. U don't need to argue with the company. Just call ur credit company to tell the story and refuse to pay it. It's that easy.
 
我们local moving很少有收超过1000的,大概在7,8年的时间中有1,2次的样子。

通常townhouse to house 一般需要4,5小时(300-500)
house to house 一般需要5,6小时(400-600)
2,3 bedroom apt to house 基本等同于townhouse to house的时间,因为东西可能少了些,但需要电梯一趟趟的往下运。
1 bedroom apt to house 一般3小时以内。(200-300)


上面大家的经验,说明好几个问题. 很诚恳的给大家讲讲,
 
Strong 不等于 fast。很多人觉得老外比较强壮,就觉得这样速度就快,其实,仔细想想,就算他们能一个人搬沙发,你敢让他们搬吗?同样的,dresser,washer,dryer,fridge, stove等等,都需要两个人的配合才能完成。搬家工作除了力气之外,讲究配合。该是两个人的活,就还得两个人做。而且,爆发力和耐力往往是此生彼消的。所以才有了上面有人说的coffee time, smoke time等等。我们也喝coffee,我们里面也有人抽烟,但是从来不一起喝,一起抽,通常一个mover抽根烟,另外两个mover就会cover这个人的工作。
 
care有很多种。我们可以花15分钟来wrap每一件大一点的家具,10件就是150分钟,也就是300多块钱。但是家具本身是否值这么多钱,同样是需要care的内容之 一。举个例子,我们在local搬家时,一般情况是除了酒柜等有玻璃的家具,通常不在房间里进行wrap,有人会问,那就是不wrap了,也不尽然。家具 等上了车之后,我们会在可能发生摩擦的地方cover毯子,这样既相对节省了客户的时间,又起到了基本相同的保护作用。
 
Local moving通常绝大部分搬家公司均是按小时记的,我们也不例外。只是我们不收traveling time Cost。

其他公司收traveling time,也有一定道理,毕竟搬家的truck不是taxi,如果不是专门去客户那里搬家,怎么可能顺道路过来拉活儿呢。

flat rate的local moving,基本上是moving公司完全把自己处于high risk不计后果的情况下,才有可能做。为了一定要在(flat rate/hourly rate)= EST hours的时间之内做完,通常是极度的rush的工作。基本上所有ikea的组装家具是经不起这种速度和烈度的。

对于这种收费方式,我们是不太认同的。
 
至于搬钢琴多charge$150,其实是有点贵了。

我们通常如果需要搬运钢琴,和搬家一起的extra charge是$80.

而且据我们所知,150的费用已经齐平或略高于专业的piano mover的公司的价格了(指的是在一般情况下,比如3个台阶之内的house搬house,或者没有台阶的apt搬house)。
 
如果大家有什么关于这方面的问题,可以给我们打电话。

即使是那些已经找其他公司搬完的,或者是定了其他公司的,只要有相关的疑问,都可以来电话的。

希望大家都能有相对满意(需要现实的来说,不是绝对的满意)的搬家过程和花费。
 
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