PODS® Reviews
While happy with Pods and the service I would believe it would have been less expensive and move would have been quicker if I had used a moving company. My move was 1,250 miles. I used 3 16 foot pods. Cost of Pods with cost of hiring helpers to load them, and packing materials (blankets, straps, etc) is going to be close to 10,000.00.
PODs were a great solution for us. We were packing up a small house after living there for 59 years. PODs allowed us to sort and pack over a period of several months, emptying the packed stuff as we progressed and leaving room to continue sorting the remainder. We used 2 16-foot PODs for an 1145 sq ft home. Then PODs transported them to our new home from IL to GA. We especially loved the flexibility in rescheduling PODs as our needs evolved.
Both Pods delivered and picked up right on schedule. We are packing 3 pods-two one weekend and one the next. Putting them in storage for a month. Then unloading them at new house next month. Over 3 weekends. PODS allowed more logical unloading and not leaving piles of boxes in house from moving it all in one day.
Communication with PODS is horrible. The concept is great, but the customer service needs a lot of work. I also think they are taking on too many customers because it seemed like they kept telling me that they couldn't do this or that because they were so busy. Again, great concept, but do something about your customer service and communication with customers.
Great service from beginning to end. The service agents we spoke with on the phone were helpful and able to make all necessary arrangements and answer questions that came up. The POD was delivered and picked-up as promised, on both ends, during the time frame that was set-up. We are pleased with the service and would use a POD container again in future. Recommended.
PODs was easy enough to use. I had a large pod and fit my belongings from a one bedroom apartment with room to spare. My only issue was in getting the dates I wanted side - I felt like I was only warned after the fact that the dates were going fast, whereas at first I had been told that it would be easy to change dates if I needed extra time to load it. My belongings all arrived safely to their destination.
Highly recommend using PODS. Everything from the very beginning went smoothly and none of our stuff was broken and it was stored for two months and delivered across three states. We did pack the POD ourselves (and have experience), but I can't say enough good things about how prompt the POD company was. I will say I'm a little annoyed by their continual charges and would rather give a deposit at the beginning and then the final payment rather than getting charged every month or few weeks. Also, one final invoice would be nice to see all the charges. I had to go into my account and click on each invoice to see all the charges. That portion could be improved.
We had a great experience using PODS for our move from Murrells Inlet, SC to Chapel Hill, NC. It was so convenient to have a POD we could directly move items into as we packed and then get a fresh one when we filled that one up. We ended up using 3 PODS and things worked like clockwork as far as the dropping off and picking up. The drivers were professional and friendly and efficient. We are hoping this is our last move, but we would definitely go with PODS again in the future. All the containers were clean and in great working order. It was a great experience!
PODS is excellent and has a great customer service however the reason I am giving 4 stars is because I have already my container loaded but they do not have anyone to move the container up until 9 days more, do not get me wrong they are trying to free some space so It can be moved sooner but yet I believe that availability is important.
This is a difficult situation to review, as the problem stems from the fact that there are two vendors involved: Hire a Helper and Pods. Pods said I would only need two pods, Hire a Helper initially thought they would get everything into just one, but at the end of the day was unable to get everything into the two Pods. Given that the house closing was the very next day, and that the only option Pods was able to offer was for me to rent a third Pod, but they couldn't get that to me in time to matter, I was left with no options. We had to give away over $800 in good furniture away. As we are moving to Florida, hiring a U-Haul to get it there would have cost more than the furniture. So, final conclusion, either don't use Pods again, or don't use Hire a Helper, as I had no inkling this would happen to me until it was too late to do anything about it. The actual loaders were good guys, the business approach turns out to have a fatal flaw.
