{"id":2220,"date":"2008-08-08T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2009-11-10T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T05:33:32","slug":"fix-price-move-cautiously-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/fix-price-move-cautiously-recommended\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Price Move: Cautiously Recommended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I helped a friend ship a house of boxes from San Francisco to Boston. They used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixpricemove.com\/\">Fix Price Move<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what my friend said who was taking delivery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fixed Price arrived today. \u00a0 After several maddening delays and an additional $600.00 (plus the $923 already due) they delivered. \u00a0 They have been a pain in the ass from the get go. \u00a0 Interestingly, the truck broke down in TX and the truck it was transferred to broke down after unloading in front of my house. \u00a0 Every thing seems to have survived the journey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When Fixed Price arrived they had 3 boxes from somebody else&#8217;s load mixed into ours. \u00a0 The boxes were filled with old canned food and ugly flower pots and before I could tell that they were not ours I had some colorful words for you about sending us &#8230; out of date canned food. \u00a0 So far all&#8217;s well though.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$1.30lb delivered coast to coast. A bit of a PITA. At least everything didn&#8217;t disappear and get sold on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>And all things being even, that&#8217;s about as good a moving experience as I&#8217;ve seen at a very good price. Specifically, it was a 2 bedroom house. I had packed up everything in boxes except 4 or 5 large pieces that they wrapped and hauled, 1,100 pounds total.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Be sure to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/fix-price-move-cautiously-recommended\/comment-page-1\/#comment-288698\">comment from Ben of Fix Price Move<\/a> below. Be sure to read for yourself but I&#8217;d say they&#8217;re a reasonably good choice for a moving company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I helped a friend ship a house of boxes from San Francisco to Boston. They used Fix Price Move. Here&#8217;s what my friend said who was taking delivery: Fixed Price arrived today. \u00a0 After several maddening delays and an additional $600.00 (plus the $923 already due) they delivered. \u00a0 They have been a pain in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}