PODS® Reviews
Arrived 4 days late. Contents were in excellent condition. Cause of delay was mechanical failure of the truck en route. PODS manager Courtney called us personally to discuss options due to the delay. She offered to reimburse for hotel or air mattress purchase (although she did NOT have to based on the contract we signed with PODS). We had to open a claim to get this personalized attention and it took 2 days to be assigned a case manager. We are going to submit our receipt for the air mattress and Courtney is supposed to follow up with us today. We'll see what happens...
I would rate PODS excellent on every aspect of our move. From initial phone contact to the removal of the empty POD 2 months later. I called several times making adjustments to the order and was always impressed with their telephone etiquitt. In every case the order changes were made flawlessly. The POD was taken from our house to the local depot where we accessed it on 4 occasions. We called the day before and it was always ready for us the following day. Dennis in your Oaks, PA depot did an excellent job every time and helped us when we encountered a problem with our straps. He obviously takes pride in his job. Two months and 1200 miles later we are happy with your service.
The customer service people could not have been any less helpful than they were. All 4 of the people I spoke with in regards to having my POD delivered back to me quoted a different dollar amount due. The POD was delivered almost 3hrs past the time I was told but with the service I had been receiving I anticipated this and scheduled my movers for later. I would have to have to be desperate to use these people again.
We would never use pods.com again; nor would we recommend them. We booked our pods for delivery on a Friday with a late afternoon/early evening pick up on Saturday. The notes on our file (verified by pods.com) stated latest pick-up possible. Our plan was to have Thunderhorse Moving (they were awesome) arrive at 11 to pack the pods by 3. We receive an email very late on the Friday night saying that they were going to pick up the pods between 11 and 2. We called the customer service number as soon as we received the email, and they were unable to help us. They said to call again in the morning at 7:00 a.m., which we did. Again, no one was able to help us. All they kept saying was that the pick up time is not guaranteed. We tried talking to customer service and corporate customer service, doing whatever we could to work up the line of management. Customer service just sticks to a script without answering your questions directly. There is no phone number to contact the local office. Customer service has a cell number for the local manager, but obviously they can't share that. They told us they tried calling that number, but no one answered. You can find the local office address online, but there's a good chance no one will be there. It was an incredibly frustrating experience. I think that because we kept pushing (asked for the company president's name, asked for every customer service agent's name, and asked for the local manager's name), they actually came much later to pick up our pods. However, they never let us know that they had rescheduled us for later, so we had an incredible amount of pressure to get the pods packed as quickly as possible when we could have actually taken more time. All I can say is that we will be following up with emails and the Better Business Bureau. Very frustrating, disappointing, and terrible service.
You pay for the convenience, dropping off the POD fit in a parking space in front of where I lived, super easy. It was easy for me to load everything up and lock it, reminiscent of "set it and forget it". Then it was easy for me to schedule when I wanted it delivered and it was delivered without issue, again, easy. This is a great service, though more expensive than hiring movers and driving yourself of course.
The customer service reps, delivery and pick up service providers were wonderful. The repair technician that hadto come and peel off the top of the POD was great. The delivery from state to state was held up by 3 days due to equipment failure at the storage facility in Colorado, and the door of the unit was broken and unable to open upon delivery in Missouri. The employees were great.....the equipment....not so great.
We moved from Michigan to California, all cross country moves are difficult! The shipping time for PODS was approximately 11 days. Unfortunately, there was water damage to some of our goods because rain water got inside a small portion of the container. So that was a downer! We downsized A LOT (50%) before the move, therefore it would be hard for me to believe that a 3-bedroom home (with a garage & basement) would fit into one 16' POD.
Robert dropped off the POD, knew exactly how to back it into place, was careful to avoid the sprinkler heads. Wonderful job. We were not here when Sean removed it, but he also called to advise of arrival time, and it appears he did an excellent job removing it. We used PODS because we needed storage as well as moving. The POD holds more than you would think, if packed professionally and took 99% of our household items. We would use PODS again. The POD was clean inside and out. The door came off the track once, was tightly sprung, and difficult to close. customer service staff were professional, friendly and answered all our questions. They were in touch at all the right times.
PODS worked great for me. I was able to schedule my move around my schedule. They guys who place the container are very skilled at what they do. My only complaint was that I was assigned a drop-off time of between 6:30 am and 9:30 am. Seriously, who does business at 6:30 am? I'm pretty sure my new neighbors must hate me because of the noise PodZilla made when my POD arrived at 6:40 am. But the POD was clean, my contents were in good shape when it arrived at my destination.
