The Moving Doctors

I’ll sum this review up very quickly for you: terrible, rude and don’t bother hiring this middleman moving company. Want to know more then read on:
If there’s ever anything I can’t stand more than Unilocaling a one-​star rating it’s moving, so this review strikes two terrible chords at once.
When we called to schedule a moving date we needed to do so weeks in advance (even still we didn’t get the date we requested). We told him we needed their biggest truck, and the guy said he needed for us to tell them how many boxes we were moving. Boxes? We had no idea because we weren’t even close to being packed at the time but we took a stab at it, told the guy what large items we had (washer dryer, bedroom sets, etc.) and got our quote. As the moving day closed in we called and attempted to up our box amount once we had packed and when we did we were told, «That should still be fine». Ok, apparently fine means something different to The Moving Doctors.
First of all, when the movers showed up in a Moving Doctors’ truck, we were shocked to find that they were a different company’s movers and not The Moving Doctors. This was never mentioned to us. We found out that the Moving Doctors’ movers had all left the company for reasons unknown, and the Moving Doctors were outsourcing their moving jobs to another moving company. Let me make sure you heard me: THE MOVING DOCTORS WERE OUTSOURCING THEIR MOVING JOBS TO ANOTHER MOVING COMPANY. In other words, why would you as the consumer bother paying The Moving Doctors to take their cut off the top and hire another company to move you?
It took the non-​Moving Doctors’ movers so long to pack our truck because they needed to pack it so tightly (they brought too small a truck for our needs, which was supposed to be «fine»). In the end we wound up paying DOUBLE our estimate. When we called the guy to ask why it was so much over when we told him how much we needed to move his response was that it was our «fault» for not giving him the most accurate box count to begin with.
You can do all kinds of stupid things with your money. You could walk in a casino and put your life’s savings on black, acquire an-​out-​of-​control-​methamphetamine addiction, replace your entire DVD/​Blu Ray library to VHS video cassettes tapes because hey, that technology isn’t going to go anywhere, convert your home’s heat & energy source exclusively to reptilian oil extracted from the skins of endangered loggerhead sea turtles or you can hire the Moving Doctors to pay another company to move your stuff. I wouldn’t choose any of these stupid options if I were you.

Sometimes life throws you a lemon like a not-​so-​ideal roommate situation or an inheritance of a downtrodden mini pony farm. To protect the over reactive, I wont say which one was the situation that prompted a move. So 7 months after relocating to Buffalo, I found myself calling up Doctor Mike a second time to move yet again.
Both moves went great. The movers came early for one move and on time for another. Its their standard practice to send out 3 movers. Yes, the rates here are higher than some of the other reputable companies and they are certainly higher than the most of backdoor ones on CL. However they WILL show up on time and move your stuff efficiently and without issue. Go ahead try your luck elsewhere but these guys are legitmately insured. Some of the people I spoke to on CL for quotes weren’t insured outside of their moving vehicle. I may not have been the woman that infamously burned her crotch with scalding hot McDonald’s coffee (hence necessitating the obvious «hot coffee» caution on their cups) but I certainly don’t plan on finding out what landmark case I could end up in if I didn’t use insured movers and some freak accident involving an poorly packed box of Beanie Babies occurred. Besides I like having peace of mind that my stuff will be replaced if it was damaged during the move by the movers.
You are requested to pay in cash at the end of the move.