Starving Students Movers

There are far cheaper movers in San Diego that are much more professional than these clowns. The two guys I had help me move, while quick (although I didn’t have much to begin with) were so unprofessional. One of them kept telling me he wanted a tip at the end of the move. And the other one insisted that he would have to take apart my large hutch desk in order to move it. The desk was not meant to be taken apart and he ended up purposely breaking it apart. Movers move grand pianos for heaven’s sake and they couldn’t move a hutch desk? I even specified that I had a large hutch desk when I booked them so they would know to bring the necessary equipment. I ended up shelling out $ 450 for moving from a one bedroom apartment to another one not that far away. And tip was expected (requested multiple times). NEVER use this joke of a company.

Starving students is a sketchy company, with a bunch of thieving tweekers, worst experience ever

Do not let these guys in your home. When they arrived at our home their price increased from the original quote, several pieces of our furniture were gouged and scratched. They said they did not have enough room in their truck for all our stuff so we had to hire people to move the remaining items in our attic on another day. Our home is only 1400 square feet. I would not recommend Starving Students Movers. It was a very unpleasant experience movers should be there to help you not turn your stressful and exhausting moving day into a nightmare. We will always regret hiring these movers.

Not worth the cost. The movers took literally 8 hours and I moved with friends in and out in less then 4 hours when I moved in and has more stuff. I used Uhaul once as well it was $ 50 an hour and they were quick. They made me feel like shit about the amount of stuff I had. You are movers thats what you do? Lame it cost me over $ 1000 double the quote and I tipped 200 totally pissed about that as today I was missing stuff and went to my garage and there are 12 boxes that I know need to carry up after moving like 12 to find the missing boxes. Never again will I use this company. Oh and I moved in and out of a two bedroom place. What a scam!

My husband and I used these guys and they were amazing. Professionalism and care were higher than we expected. My husband dealt with the whole thing because they were done by the time I was home from work. Would use again and we have recommended.

Now I know why they have such bad reviews, and to the person that said that others must of had a difficult move, no I don’t think so most of the reviews where bad is that just a fluke, not likely. So I called and the gentleman that was on the phone started out ok but just started going over the prices really fast and when I asked him to slow down he got defensive, nice way to act. He quoted me $ 94.99 per hr with a 2 hr min., then there was double drive time that he claims was required by law, then there was the 22.7% for fuel maintenance, and coverage on his workers if they got hurt on my property. I thought that was what they where suppose to carry work comp and liability for not for me to cover them, he told me that if the guys got hurt on my property they could sue me, not so sure about that the company is required have coverage for their men not me. Now I know why they get such bad reviews horrid company, glad I did not use them and I am sorry for every one that did and had to put up with their shit. Good Luck

DONT CALL STARVING STUDENTS MOVING!!!
I booked my move with them 4 days prior to the move, everything was set up and locked in. I got off the phone feeling like it was going to be an easy move. THEN all the harassment calls began. Day 1: they called 8 times, asking the same exact questions EACH time. Day 2: The calls began again from 7:15am thru 9:00pm. I finally stopped answering their calls… Do they not know what the other is doing? Why are you asked the same questions over and over? Do they not write the information down on your account??? Day 3: I had to call Starving Students to change the moving time, the elevator in the building has broken down. Changed to afternoon move for tomorrow. Here come the calls again… Manager called to verify change get details. Then 2 males and 1 female called one after the other asking the same questions I was asked by the manager. But now they have a new one… Someone came up with the statement that I said I only had $ 200.00, so that’s thrown in too. That entire conversation never took place! I booked for 3 men, a 2 hour move, less then 6 miles distance for a total of $ 336.00. No idea where the $ 200.00 figure came from. Day 4-​moving day: First call @ 7:45, man wanted me to go over the whole elevator issue again, brought up the $ 200.00 thing, said they’d be here by 10:00am. Now we had just discussed the elevator being broken as well as the move scheduled for the afternoon. Now I’m really aggravated!!! These constant phone calls are to the point of harassment!!! The man gets jazzy telling me it’s not his fault the elevator broke, that I was the one who called and changed the time. OKAY… I cancelled the entire move. These people harass you non stop once they get your phone number, I see why they’re starving students! They business edict it zilch, they don’t have any idea what they’re partners are doing, they’re rude, and basically a royal pain in the butt!!! DO NOT CALL them unless your ready for around 10 calls per day, repeating yourself over and over, and don’t mind someone rude as hell calling you first thing in the morning. It’s not worth the aggravation… They should rename themselves to HARRASSING MOVERS or DONT KNOW WHAT WERE DOING MOVERS, pain in the ass movers would work too!!!
Take heed to this warning, moving is stressful enough you don’t need people like them making it worse!!! I have to rate to post, so put one star. Don’t mean it, don’t want to put it.

I would give 0 stars if I could. Just like everyone else’s experience, the quote was completely wrong. They were late, it took them more then 4 hours to move a 1 bedroom to a location 10 minutes away when everything was already boxed up ready to go. And then of course they broke multiple items and refused to claim responsibility. I have no idea how this company is still in business. Pay your friend to help you move. Don’t give these guys a cent of your money. You will regret it.

They are the worest company I have ever worked with! They damaged my house in the move and would not pay for it. Also there truck leaked oil all over my driveway and then the truck could not make it up my driveway. They had to get tow truck to pull it up the hill. They did nothing to compensate me for the clean up and for the broken tiles they damaged on my roof. THIS COMPANY SUCKS!!! Good luck if you use them!

If there was an option for NO STARS… that would be my vote. I was lied to about my price quote. first problem. Second problem-​I had one man working his butt off and another doing nothing, and I mean nothing. He was on his phone making personal calls or should I say receiving personal calls from his girlfriend that he was fighting with. My less than two hour was almost 7 hours due to their choice of not working quickly. All my move was supposed to be was our king size bed, our sons bunk bed and drawer, our daughters bunk bed, armoire and dresser. We had moved everything else personally and just needed the big bulky items moved. It was a move that was a block away. I can go on and on about this entire move, but at the end of the day it is that so many things went wrong and this company refused to take the hit on it. The man who was also on the phone decided to take about a thirty minute poop break in my bathroom, they broke a hinge on our bed and it took weeks to get the part in because of this. I had pre-​paid my quoted price and then was billed hundreds more from the time they took to BS the day away. I fought it and fought it to no avail as they sent me to collections. Don’t even get me started on the guy Christian in collections. HORRIBLE person. My credit is perfect except for this one little mark on it from… you guessed it, Starving Students or should I say Christian Meyers, the collection company that they use. Absolute worst moving company to use Ever. Being in the business that I am in and the people I deal with on a daily basis, they missed out on a huge opportunity to rectify this situation and fix the gross error on their employees part.

Advertised price is $ 80 per hour. In addition there is about a 22% fee and then drive time is double so it’s really over $ 100 per hour. My recommendation is rent a u haul and give a couple friends $ 100 and a case of beer and bottle of tequila each. It will be half the price. Cost me $ 500 to move a one bedroom apartment 20 minutes away. Oh and I gave each mover a $ 20 tip (I don’t know why).

We’ve used Starving Students twice (honestly it was just because of the price) but like everyone else here, we never will again. The first time (about 2 years ago) was very quick, very inexpensive, nice guys and no damage. This time around one of the two guys was being trained and it took literally 3X longer than the first, six hours for a one bedroom to a STORAGE UNIT. We were charged significantly more than the estimate which turned out to be a total surprise, especially with the destination only 3 minutes from our house. However, both of the employees were very easy going and polite.
Bottom line, if you need to book a move fast and you’re really low on cash, they may be a good choice for you. If you’ve got a decent budget and can afford even a three star company, go for it!

Worst move I have ever had, by far. Last Sunday, I had a move scheduled between 8am and noon, and the representative confirmed multiple times that I would be the first move of the day since I had to drive back to Nevada that night for work the next day. The mover called at 8am and said he was already doing another move and quoted me 10:30. 11:15 rolled around and I tried calling but his phone went to voicemail. He showed up at 12:30, took 15 minutes to scope out the place, and didn’t get anything started until 1.
Because we were running so far behind, I asked my friend to help the movers since we own our own dolly. My friend ended up doing at least 60 percent of the move and his total amount of full load trips to the truck more than tripled the amount of both movers combined.
The movers were vulgar and unprofessional, not to mention very slow and unmotivated to work. They asked for a snack so I offered to go get them lunch and also offered my fridge for any remaining snacks. One of them spilled a dark drink and stained my carpet that I will now be charged for.
The worst is yet to come, the driver mover drank two beers while on the job. When I finally asked my friend to take a break since he was working harder than they were, we left together to get them food. On our way out of my underground parking, we passed by their truck to drop off a tool they needed. To our shock, they were rummaging through a suitcase of mine, completely laid out unzipped on the floor with hands digging inside. Needless to say, I went alone for the food.
The entire move took over 6 hours to go to a storage unit 3 miles away and cost 750. I moved the same exact belongings in 2012 from a distance of 90 miles and the total time was less, and the total cost was less. My mind is blown by how this company conducts itself. It’s outrageous, unprofessional, and unacceptable. Lucky for me, I work in the legal field and am taking my claim as far as possible to set this terrible company straight.

I needed help moving in a hurry. I called Starving Students as I knew it to be around for some time and they were able to accommodate my time frame. That was my first mistake nor checking around more. I had already moved both couches, my TV s, coffee table and kitchen dining set. No beds as we had new ones already delivered to the new apartment. What I did have left was a piano, curio cabinet, 2 ok large dressers, large head board and I needed help packing my personal belongings in my room. I was quoted $ 269.00. Sounded good so I agreed.
I only moved 10 miles. 3 very nice men got it packed and dropped it all off at the new place.
Here’s where it began to go bad.
1. Final bill over $ 600
2. Things just shoved into boxes without any care.
3. A small wooden box I had with 6 small drawers was emptied. It contained silver quarters, half dollars some proofs and Indian head pennies and nickels I had collected over the years.
I am still trying to unpack the remaining items treated so haphazardly. Hoping the family heirlooms I have yet to locate have not also disappeared.

I think people with bad reviews probably had either very large or complex moves or they expected services provided by companies that charge you $ 200+ an hour. You are paying a couple of guys to lift and carry your stuff, stuff that you probably wouldn’t wanna carry even if they offered you $ 1000, so c’mon, you get what you pay for.
That being said, I hired them before reading the Unilocal reviews, so I was super worried once I got to read some of these reviews. Sam and Thomas helped me with the move this afternoon, I made sure to have some cold gatorades, because that was about to become a cardio session, moving is expensive and time was ticking. I’m a bit reckless by nature and didn’t wanna do much protection on my couch but they protected it anyway, same with the TVs I sort of expected them to have TV boxes, they didn’t, but Sam made sure to wrap them up in a bunch of layers of padding! Sam worked his ass off btw, super good kid!
I helped carry some small things just to make a point on how important it was we stayed within budget. I. e lead by example.
We got an almost 2 bedroom out within hour and a half from a 20^th floor! In our way up to the new place I stopped by pokez and got them a couple of burritos, they were super appreciative and they waited until the move was done and they were off the clock to actually munch on.
At the new place it took them about an hour to unload, got their burritos, tipped them $ 30 each and they were happily on their way.
Not a single item broken or lost. I’ll definitely use them again and recommend to friends at their own risk. I did my homework with the packing.
Thank you Sam, Thomas and SS!

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE!!! They gave us a time range of 8am-​noon and didn’t show up until 5pm!
I will give them this: it was raining pretty badly and this caused a lot of slow down. BUT, one of the two guys complained the ENTIRE time about our stuff and not only that,
WE HAD TO HELP THEM MOVE OUR STUFF!!!
So I paid them $ 600 to move my own shit!!! I even had to call in some friends to help and it still took them the 4 hours they originally quoted me!
NEVER AGAIN.

Worst moving experience ever! After booking weeks in advanced and confirming twice, this company had no follow through. We were told they would be at our house between 8am-​12pm and by 3pm they were not even close to coming to our house. They said we were next on the list but how can you not make it with a 4 hour window? This was completely unprofessional and by far one of the worst experiences. We ended up finding a company (hooray for Motivated Military Movers… they are amazing!) and they saved the day for us. I will never recommend this company and I’m pretty sure they’re a scam. I’m so glad we didn’t use them and I’m happy my hard earned money went to a good and respectable company.

My boyfriend and I moved on Feb 2012 with them and all was fine. It ended up being more expensive than we thought but the guys were very efficient and professional. We even stopped at another apt to pick up a bed and a couch.
I had no problems with them at all.

I will start by saying that I will never be using this service again and will tell everyone I know looking for a moving company to stay clear. Here are the reasons why:
1. My mother is sick and is the one moving so she booked the company and my boyfriend and I were going to handle the rest for her. She was only moving 15 minutes away. The company quoted her a maximum of $ 400.00. When the movers arrived they were very unprofessional. They started off by going through the paperwork with my mother and the pricing. They then told her is was going to be $ 800.00… that’s double of what she was quoted! They made my poor mother cry and finally I stepped in and set things straight with them. How dare they take advantage of a sick lady.
2.We had booked a morning move and it was noon by the time they arrived!
3.The two men moving were disgusting and using vulgar language the entire time!
4. When moving furniture from the apartment to the truck one of the guys started smoking inside the apartment! Eww how disrespectful and gross. When I screamed at him he flicked his ashes on the furniture and stepped outside.
5. We were paying for time and the guys kept taking smoke breaks. I was not aware we were paying for this as well. When we arrived at the new place they told my boyfriend he should help out so it would save us time and money. Maybe if they hadn’t taken so many smoke breaks that would have saved us some time.
6. After the furniture and boxes were unloaded I noticed many of the pieces were scratched. I understand that this can happen during moving but they made it clear at the old place that they had to re-​wrap everything so they weren’t reliable. So my question is, why would you only wrap some things? When doing the ending paperwork I brought up the scratched furniture and they guy told me that it was already like that. I know for a fact it wasn’t like that because I bought that furniture not even a year ago! He said I could make a complaint to customer service but encouraged me not to because he would hear about it. (Aww, how sad. not! Maybe you should do your job right buddy!)
7. One of the morons doing the moving tried going onto the patio and walked through the screen door and completely broke it off… in a brand new place!
8. While the truck was parked in the parking lot after unloading everything, some other resident accidentally ran into the truck. When the movers confronted the kid they told him just to go get some cash so he could buy them a beer. The kid wanted to get insurance info and do it right. Not only what the movers suggested was wrong and hurtful to the company but it’s ILLEGAL!
I can honestly say that I do not have one nice thing to say about this company. I am in disbelief that this company is still getting business.

Why didn’t I see /​read Megg S.‘s Feb 2013 review before I hired these guys? I don’t know. Apparently the joke’s on me! As for you, DON’T DO IT!
Short story — bad damages + unreliable moving dates & quotes + ghetto claims department!
Long story:
1. One of the movers had my short metal filing drawers on his dolly, turned carelessly, and made a fat-​ass nasty SCRATCH (about 20″ long) to my piano bench. WTFFFF! Right in front of my face! On the claim form they want to know how much damage $ I’m claiming — It’s my friggin’ piano bench! It came with my piano! I have no *need* to replace it. And I don’t trust myself to paint over the scratch. So what now?
2. We have a set of large Mrantz speakers that we got from parents. It was in perfect shape before being loaded onto the truck. When the movers brought the speakers to our storage unit, our jaws dropped. Are you ***ing serious? Did they even pad anything? Protect these in anyway? Very much BROKEN! See if you can find the photo I’m posting. We don’t know the actual specs of the speakers. So we don’t really know how much they are *worth* but at least hundreds of dollars.
3. We moved on April 30^th. Claims Dept acknowledged that they’d started an «investigation» for our DAMAGE CLAIM on May 29. Since then, not a word. I’ve emailed the «Head of Claims Department» Melanie twice over the last 2 weeks. It’s now 4^th of July. No response yet. Also called & left a msg. No response. Do they expect us to just forget about it?
4. Up to about 5 – 6 days before our move, we had no idea if we were going to be moving on the coming Sat or Sun because they were so non-​committal! The office said it was «UP TO THE DRIVER». Really? They also never told us what time they were going to show up. Now, since this happened b4 all that damage took place, we tried to keep an open mind. But then —–
5. They wouldn’t tell us which ACTUAL DAY they would deliver our stuff. The office told us it’s typically 2 – 5 days. But again, it was «up to the driver». After loading our stuff, we didn’t hear from the driver again for 2 days. We never thought we’d be waken by a phone call saying, «We’ll be there in an hour». WTF??? With no notice at all, we were still 8 hours of driving away. My husband told the driver that we’re not even there because they hadn’t arrange the drop off. The driver became very upset, said he had to check with someone, then hung up. We waited for a couple of hours. He didn’t call back — that’s just professional. Not! We had to call him to back to make sure we could agree on a date/​time.
6. Prior to the move, their staff «helped» us estimate the weight. The guy kept on telling my husband that people ALWAYS overestimate it. My husband was dead sure we were way under the weight limit. But noooooo, we were OVERWEIGHT BY A FEW HUNDRED POUNDS. There goes the extra charge! I think we were quoted for about $ 1,500, but we were charged $ 2,300, including some miscellaneous fees we were completely not informed of previously.
All of this, after I «bribed» the movers at our old apartment with sodas, in the hopes & dreams that they’d take care of my furniture and all. D bags!