Recently, we had hired movers to move our belongings from Grande Prairie Alberta, to Kelowna British Columbia. We contacted Here 2 There Enterprises Ltd. in Grande Prairie, and a person named Sheldon came over to our house and looked at our stuff. I believe he was the Owner/Operator of the Company. He said he would match a quote that we had received from another company which was $4116.00 Dollars including tax. He assured us that he could do the move without incident and that he had the right people/equipment for the job. So, we had agreed on this price and was going to use him. The day before the move he called Kristi and said that upon inspection of his trailer that he would have to have his hitch replaced because his was broken. On the day of the move before they would move anything or start loading anything, he tried making my wife sign a waiver form saying that he was not liable for any damage's to our belonging's which he never mentioned when we first met him. He brought this form with him we believe because he knew that he was not going to be able to move our stuff without damaging anything. I was away working when all of this took place.
So they started loading our belonging's. My wife had the dryer on finishing a load of laundry and they moved it out of the house with wet clothes in the dryer after we had informed them that the washer/dryer unit could be in storage for some time. They gave away my $1500.00 Dollar bicycle, my $300.00 Dollar lawn mower and my 20lb propane bottle which was full all without our consent or without us being informed. We are also missing two big white cabinet's and all the screw's for 3 set's of crib's and one bed, which Sheldon does not have a clue about the whereabouts. He will not even return our phone call's.
They finally got on the road and did not contact my wife to let her know they were mobile. I had called the wife from offshore Scotland to see how things were going. She said the mover's were not returning her phone call's and that she did not know what was going on. I immediately called Sheldon to see what was going on. It turn's out that the truck that they owned did not have sufficient brakes. The brake's had caught on fire. He did not see the point of letting the wife know. During the move, they broke all of our broom handle's, damaged my $400.00 Dollar computer desk, broke my $3000.00 Dollar television set (which was loaded in between the couches placed one on the other in the truck not stabilized), stripped all the bolt's to hold the t.v. to the t.v. stand, only took apart half of the patio set which I do not see why, there was still a little food left in the deep freeze which they loaded anyways. They tried to belittle my wife and did nothing but complain about how much stuff we had.
At the storage place in Kelowna, British Columbia, they just threw our belonging's in. They were not even going to contact the wife to say they were done, which when my wife left them she specifically asked to be informed 20 minutes before they were done so that she could have somewhat of an idea of what they had done with our belongings.
In the end, they demanded $4500.00 Dollars. My wife paid them $4200.00 Dollars instead. They were quick to cash the check. Needless to say, they were not nice people nor have they been professional or respectable . When I contacted Sheldon about the television and the rest of our belongings, he denies it and is not going to accept any responsibility for the damage to our stuff.