PODS® Reviews
PODS are an excellent way to as long as you're in their service area. I'd definitely consider them again in any future move. Good people, on-time, solid service all the way around. Best of all - no surprises. They said, this is what you'll get, and that's what I got. Until our destination was outside their service area (which we knew was a risk). Then we had the burden of unloading the PODs and loading up a rental truck to drive to the destination. Certainly not their fault, but definitely something to keep in mind.
PODS headquarters confirmed multiple times there would be someone at the PODS hub office to inform the movers and I which container was ours to unload into for monthly storage, but no one was there. I walked around in the open warehouse yelling out "anybody here?" My movers and I lost 20 mins. (that I paid for) trying to find someone, then I had to call PODS headquarters to resolve the issue; only THEY have direct contact with PODS hub staff.
We underestimated the size POD we needed. I have a lot of curio cabinets and their contests took up a lot of space. So much so, we had to sell or leave behind some of our furniture. In hindsight, we'll get a 24' POD in the future. However, we had time to fill it over a few weeks and communication and delivery were all great. I'd use them again.
We were pleased with Pods and all the drivers we worked with both in Charleston and in Buffalo. The only thing that I'd make sure people understand with a long-distance move is that they understand how the scheduling process works. I was told it would take about 7 days to get our container from one location to the next. What they didn't tell me is that that's 7 days from the first available date they have to transport them to get them to the local Pods location and then it'll take another day to get them to your house. I was told on the phone to make sure to schedule at least 7 days ahead of when I need them dropped it. It ended up working out fine because our closing got pushed back but it really was about a 12 day process from when we called to the first date they could get them to our house. Like I said, it all turned out perfectly fine but had our closing not been pushed back we'd have waiting about 5-6 extra days for our pods to get to us than what we were originally told when we signed up for the service.
At the origination point, container was delayed by almost 3 days, requiring much rearranging of plans on our part. This was a multi move and when the POD arrived at our new home, the driver pointed damage to the POD, which we documented. We will now have to file a claim for damage to a brand new mattress!
They had confirmed the standard delivery of my Pod and it wasn't until I had not heard and received an email that my delivery had been "updated" and would not be delivered. I spend hours with customer service. The change in delivery was going to cause a change in the delivery type from standard ($200) to City Service )$699), in addition to additional days of storage, and a last minute cancellation of my labor help through HireAHelper ($229). PODS customer service on said that I could file a dispute and never offered any solution.
