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Hi, all!  I want to tell you how my friend and I were deceived,
scammed, suckered and literally blackmailed by this
moving company, Aero Moving, of Dallas, TX.  When you hire
a mover, please do yourself a favor and use someone else.

This is their scam tactic: they quote you a low-ball price, make an
incomplete list on purpose, load your stuff on the truck without telling
you the additional cost, then at the destination, they force you to
pay unreasonally high charges while holding all your stuff hostage.

I was helping a friend of mine move this weekend, and she
happened to have hired Aero Moving to move the large and
bulky items for her.  A week prior to the move, she called the
company and got a quote of $107 for moving her furniture
and a 27" TV.  A couple days before the move, my friend
realized there were a few more items, so she called them
again and described to the same sales person
(named Christine) in details what those items are:
    A computer desk, a 15lb plaster stool, a 4' silk tree, and
    a floor lamp (<15lb).

The sales person told her that these items will probably add
around $10 to the total charge and that the movers will revise
the total charge once the move is completed.

When the two movers showed up, they claimed that they didn't
have the new items on their list.  So trusting the words of Christine,
we just asked them to move the aforementioned items nonetheless.
They did so without telling us how much more it would cost us.
That was our biggest mistake!

When the truck arrived at my friend's apartment complex, the
movers called in to their office before unloading the truck.  After
the call, they told my friend that they would charge her an additional
$100 for the items not on their list, making the total $207!  Thinking
it must have been a misunderstanding, we called their office to
clarify the issue.  The same salesperson, Christine, immediately
asked to speak to the movers.  After speaking to her, the movers
turned around and closed door on the truck, and told us that unless
we paid them in cash right then, they would drive away with all
our stuff and keep it in their warehouse untill we pay up!  We called
the company again and spoke to both the supervisor and the owner,
both of whom screamed at us on the phone and called us liars and
threatened to take all her stuff and then hung up on us.

Realizing we had been scammed, we tried to argue with the movers
with no success.  It was pure extortion since they were holding all her
stuff.  So I gave in and ran to a cash machine and gave them the
money.

We both feel taken and are extremely angry.  We wouldn't have minded
paying $207 had they honestly quoted us the price to begin with.  Aero
Moving is a very slimy company, and stay away from them at all cost!

Thank you for reading.


James

caijames at hotmail dot com