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lummerexpat
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Aug 26, 2008 - 03:53 PM |
 
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| Post subject: Moving Company Warning: DO NOT USE ZHONG TIE KUAI YUN! |
Here's a warning to those moving boxes around China, especially from Shanghai. Usually, when you want to move your belongings from one city to another in China, you call up a moving company, they come over, weigh your boxes, then charge you according to the overall weight (and maybe distance, whether there's an elevator in the apartment and what floor the original apartment is on and the destination apartment is on). Straight forward, right? Well, here's a few problems you may encounter.
1. The biggest scam involves the scale. When my girlfriend and I first called the moving company (zhong tie kuai yun 中铁快运), they invited my girlfriend to weigh herself on the scale to make sure it's legit and then weighed our boxes. However, my girlfriend decided to jump on the scale without prompting as the weight of the boxes seemed to be suspicious. She suddenly gained 15kg! We reweighed the boxes and things still didn't add up. Thus, we decided to jump on the scale after each box and eventually lowered our box weight by 20kg. So what's the scam? Well, we told our local Shanghai friend about our difficulties and he said that they probably have a remote control to add weight to the scale. A few weeks later, we had more boxes to ship to Kunming and the post office wasn't allowing many items to be shipped because of the Olympics (relation to shipping things to Kunming? Very little) so we called another moving company. This time, two men came to weigh our things, but one of the men kept his hand in his pocket the whole time. I told my girlfriend and she got the man to leave the apartment. Our weight went from 90kg to 60kg! Unfortunately, because we caught on to their scheme, they wouldn't take our boxes and claimed there would be extra surcharges to deliver the belongings, etc. We then called another moving company and this time they had the device in plain view (a small keychain that looks like a car remote key or a tiny flashlight) and upped our weight. We called them on it and told them we had already weighed our boxes. They agreed to take our boxes for our proposed weight, but that didn't end our troubles...
2. Extra (surprise) surcharges for delivery. When the boxes finally arrived in Kunming, the original company actually dumped our boxes on another moving company in Kunming and the Kunming moving company refused to deliver to our house! I've also heard of moving companies raising their price when they deliver packages! My girlfriend eventually had to go pick up the boxes herself despite the agreement with the Shanghai company that the boxes would be delivered.
Advice: Weigh all boxes before you move and write down what is in each box and how much each box weighs. Tape all boxes so that you'll know whether they've been tampered with during the move. Make the movers weigh one box at a time as they will tend to do two so you can't accurately estimate the boxes' weight. Watch the movers hands and make sure there is no funny business going on with a remote control. Get a receipt for the price agreed upon and, if possible, a written agreement about what terms the company and you have agreed upon. Make sure you understand what you are being charged for and what the price is before paying anything! Don't use ZHONG TAI KUAI YUN moving company. When you receive your boxes, weigh them again/check the contents of the boxes as some movers have been known to lift objects from the boxes.
Feel free to pass this info along as needed! |
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martinear
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chengold
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Sep 24, 2008 - 11:20 AM |
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People out there, the safest way is to use "Name Brand" local movers. Da zhong 大众 and zhong Xin 中兴 are the two relialable companies. I have used both of them for a few times in the past. You also need to call the companies directly and avoiding using so called "money saving couponds". Other wise you may end up with a fake company. This happen to me once. |
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warz
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Sep 25, 2008 - 07:39 PM |
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| Post subject: Re: Moving Company Warning: DO NOT USE ZHONG TIE KUAI YUN! |
| lummerexpat wrote: |
Here's a warning to those moving boxes around China, especially from Shanghai. Usually, when you want to move your belongings from one city to another in China, you call up a moving company, they come over, weigh your boxes, then charge you according to the overall weight (and maybe distance, whether there's an elevator in the apartment and what floor the original apartment is on and the destination apartment is on). Straight forward, right? Well, here's a few problems you may encounter.
1. The biggest scam involves the scale. When my girlfriend and I first called the moving company (zhong tie kuai yun 中铁快运), they invited my girlfriend to weigh herself on the scale to make sure it's legit and then weighed our boxes. However, my girlfriend decided to jump on the scale without prompting as the weight of the boxes seemed to be suspicious. She suddenly gained 15kg! We reweighed the boxes and things still didn't add up. Thus, we decided to jump on the scale after each box and eventually lowered our box weight by 20kg. So what's the scam? Well, we told our local Shanghai friend about our difficulties and he said that they probably have a remote control to add weight to the scale. A few weeks later, we had more boxes to ship to Kunming and the post office wasn't allowing many items to be shipped because of the Olympics (relation to shipping things to Kunming? Very little) so we called another moving company. This time, two men came to weigh our things, but one of the men kept his hand in his pocket the whole time. I told my girlfriend and she got the man to leave the apartment. Our weight went from 90kg to 60kg! Unfortunately, because we caught on to their scheme, they wouldn't take our boxes and claimed there would be extra surcharges to deliver the belongings, etc. We then called another moving company and this time they had the device in plain view (a small keychain that looks like a car remote key or a tiny flashlight) and upped our weight. We called them on it and told them we had already weighed our boxes. They agreed to take our boxes for our proposed weight, but that didn't end our troubles...
2. Extra (surprise) surcharges for delivery. When the boxes finally arrived in Kunming, the original company actually dumped our boxes on another moving company in Kunming and the Kunming moving company refused to deliver to our house! I've also heard of moving companies raising their price when they deliver packages! My girlfriend eventually had to go pick up the boxes herself despite the agreement with the Shanghai company that the boxes would be delivered.
Advice: Weigh all boxes before you move and write down what is in each box and how much each box weighs. Tape all boxes so that you'll know whether they've been tampered with during the move. Make the movers weigh one box at a time as they will tend to do two so you can't accurately estimate the boxes' weight. Watch the movers hands and make sure there is no funny business going on with a remote control. Get a receipt for the price agreed upon and, if possible, a written agreement about what terms the company and you have agreed upon. Make sure you understand what you are being charged for and what the price is before paying anything! Don't use ZHONG TAI KUAI YUN moving company. When you receive your boxes, weigh them again/check the contents of the boxes as some movers have been known to lift objects from the boxes.
Feel free to pass this info along as needed! |
My mother's business has been using the ZHONG TAI KUAI YUN for the past decade on a weekly basis for domestic long distance deliveries, the only issue is their rate is Sooo cheap. I met their staff a few times in the past 2-3 years when I was in Shanghai for holiday, nothing else just amazing service.
now how about stop trolling on this forum, your story is not attractive.
I would easily agree that there are a lot of crappy small companies there, but for ZHONG TAI KUAI YUN, NO, NO, NO, you are telling a story very very very untrue. |
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