UPDATE: I sued in small claims court in the County of Nevada, CA(where I moved to) and won my case for $1770.00, the defendant didn't show up to court, nor did he appeal within the 30 days allotted. I have process served Eran Bar, the Agent for Service of Process. He goes by Ron Bar and was served at 422 Queens Lane, San Jose, CA 95112. His email address is [email protected], his cell number is 408-823-2433, other numbers are 415-373-7922, and 866-606-7876.. His dba's are run through their official corporation as C H S Transportation Inc (be sure to put a space between the letters when looking it up at the California Business Portal for the Secretary fo State Debra Bowen), his rating with the BBB is F. Through my research he has gone by the following DBA's; S Van lines at www.svanlines.com, Stevens Moving & Storage, www.stevensmove.com, R1 moving & storage at www.getapacker.com, Better way to Move at www.betterwaytomove.com, and also We are moving relocations. Notice a couple of the sites are templates and look the same, with different names and numbers, and ring to the same location! I have noticed also he advertises for workers on several Israeli web sites. This man has been doing this for years, I have seen complaints dating back to 2006. He must be stopped from doing business this way, and I hope you'll help by suing him for what he did to you too!

Horrible, worst move ever. Very dishonesst, way underqouted us. We were qouted 451 dollars for a local move 14.4 miles away and then were charged 1600 dollars!!! They promised 10 warddrobe boxes for free and only brought 4, 1 of which was wet and moldy. they ended up collapsing under the weight of the clothes which wouldnt have happened had tehy brought enough. They promised reassembly after tbreaking stuff down and instead after being paid drove off!!! Only one of the 4 men spoke any english and it was not very good. Such a scam, you get movers to make things go smoother and so you dont have to do much but we ended up having to put away our own stuff and put items together. And for 1600 dollars!!! Outrageous.

This company made a good-faith bid to me for a one-bedroom move and promised a less than 3 hour move (20 minutes from one house to the other). They slow-walked the move and took 7 hours to load the truck (then I was charged double that for unload). They charged me an additional $1994 for bubble wrap and packing tape. The 3 movers from the company constantly glared at me and made derogatory remarks in Spanish about gay people and I couldn't wait to get them out of my house. There was a safety factor to take into consideration, in addition to the illegal costs they charged me, and these guys need to be out of business.

Research before the move at BBB/San Jose showed no complaints for 'Stevens Moving' but I found out later that this company keeps changing it's name to avoid detection: they also operate as "A Better Way 2 Move" and many other names, all have same parent company: CHS Transportation. CHS Transportation had lost it's license on 10/13/2008 and was not a legal mover at the time of my move.

If you have been scammed by this mover, notify the CA Attorney General's office, Fraud Division, CA Public Utilities Commission and the BBB of Santa Clara County and the BBB of San Jose. These guys need to be put in jail.

Check your moving company's parent owner, if it's CHS Transporation, do not use the mover.

We had our move this Saturday and I could not believe what happened. First of all Daniel (the lead) comes in with all this paperwork and shows me all these additional packing charges. While yes I do see there may be additional packing material charges I had no idea until my stuff was held hostage that tape and shrink wrap would cost over 1000.00 and be nearly half the bill. I was quoted $568.58 plus the additional 5% charge for fuel of 29.92 for a 5 hour loading and unloading and an additional hour and half for travel time. I was charged 2279.20. The total time for loading and unloading was 6.5 hours so that is only 1.5 hours more than what you had estimated so you can see the surprise in the final bill.

Also when Daniel came in he would not give me any kind of idea how much the additional packing would cost. I tried getting an understanding of the packing estimates but he would not even give me any ideas. He finally did say that each piece that had glass in it would be around 50.00 a piece, based on that I choose to move all the glass and mirrors myself. I also told him to advise me when anything was going to cost extra. He only did this for 3 items tv, tv stand and 4 chairs. However again he did not give me any idea how much he would charge to pack those items. The TV alone was nearly 300.00. I could have rented a truck and moved the tv myself for the packing they put around it. If some of these items were going to cost extra to wrap the blankets on the wood furniture I communicated that to be identified and I would decide it was not until my stuff was in your truck.

Further more I feel they really took me as they shirk wrapped items that did not need to be wrapped such as metal bed rails and a office chair with plastic with no pads. Why bother using the shrink wrap on those items how was that going to protect the item it wasn't it was allowing them to charge me for it. I had boxed everything (As my boyfriend is a warehouse manager and has access to boxes, shrink wrap and tape) and took the beds apart the only item they had to take a part was a desk that they could not get out without disassembling part of it. While I was assuming the cost would be higher than the estimate (specifically the travel time) I was not made aware that it would be anywhere near what it was again until my stuff was in their truck and it was made very clear it would stay there until I paid what was demanded.

I had four other bids all of which were 1200.00 to 700.00 less than what my final bill was.

I called them on Saturday but no one returned my call. I emailed Mike the person that sent me the quote on Monday and have not heard back from any of the emails I sent to him.