PODS® Reviews
I've had a great experience with PODS. Professional, communicative and responsive. My condo is undergoing extensive renovation so I had to move the contents out. Really like PODS flexibility in being able to choose when you need it dropped off and picked up. Everything went quickly and smoothly. General advice for people utilizing a POD container in multi-family housing parking lots: the container (even the big 16') fits into a standard parking space, but be aware that the parking spaces on either side of the container must be unoccupied at both drop off and pick up. If you're in a condo/apartment situation with reserved parking, make to sure make arrangements with your neighbors to move their cars on the day your POD is delivered or picked up.
Pods was great when I booked my move, however it has gone down hill from there. I couldn’t get my furniture delivered when I wanted, when I finally got my delivery date they wouldn’t tell me what time my pods would arrive until the day before, so hiring movers was very difficult. We currently can’t get the pods picked back up for two weeks because someone changed our pick up date, and we have damage to our furniture. Hopefully getting resolution to the damaged furniture will go better than the rest of this transaction.
The only concern we had was we couldn't get a location on the driver as the tail end of our arrival window was closing in. We scheduled movers 1 hour after the window so it made for bit of anxiety. The driver did arrive about 15 minutes late, which was fine but it would have been nice for Pods to be able to provide us an ETA during the 3-hour window period.
Pods company was super easy to work with. Every time I called they took their time with me on the phone and were very pleasant to work with. They helped coordinate a long distance move for me and were very knowledgeable about the whole process. They called and emailed confirmation of everything which was very helpful during a busy move. POD was delivered and picked up in the time frame given to me and the drivers were all friendly. I would definitely use this company again.
Everything very good and convent. Only problem we had was on delivery of full container. Because of slight incline of driveway, heavy container, degree of turn in drive for final placement and inexperienced driver who lost control of POD hydronic delivery system, we ended up with damage to garage front and roof. Driver reported it on site but no one from POD has contacted us. It’s been 5 days and still no call from PODS. I had to contact them. I still have no detail on what the process will be to get the damage cost settled.
PODS arrived right at the times confirmed the evening before. (If you think you will need to put one in the street I'd recommend contacting your City beforehand. We did put one in the street and I had to go to downtown Long Beach for a permit--but it still worked better than putting two PODS in the driveway.) Drivers confirmed as the got near and also confirmed when they picked up and moved PODS to storage. Very happy so far with our move and decision to use PODS .