I've been using Computer Transportation Services since the late 70's or
early 80's, and don't remember ever having any problems with them. I used to
ship several 11/70's a month, and other systems and options.
I always call, and didn't even know their web site was
We'll see how well they did tomorrow.
I purchased several lots through dovebid; two could be packed and send
ground with no problem and one needed freight.
So I filled out two shipping quotes.
They ended up i) combining the two quotes into a single shipment
without bothering to mention this to me, ii) didn't pay attention when
merging the orders and used my home address as the freight shipping
address, iii) every time I deal with them, its a different person and
they don't seem to know anything about my order or what state it is
in, iv) when I explicitly asked them on the phone how I was going to
pay for this, I got some sort of mumble "we'll deal with that later"
answer. I asked for a quote based on pessimistic (i.e. overly large
and overly heavy) estimates on the equipment and *presto* the final
order is exactly what their estimate based on my pessimistic
measurements said. Then they send me a bunch of digitized fax
paperwork asking me to apply for a "line of credit" with them without
me asking for any such thing. Each step of the process was from a
different email address/person at this company, making each attempt to
contact me look like spam to spam filters.
So overall it feels like they are incompetent. They mismashed two
separate orders together without telling me and half-assed combined
them together, without paying any attention to what they were doing.
I had the freight carrier call me today saying "so we're delivering to {my
home address}, right?" and me having to correct them *after* I already
told
moveit.com about the error and they informed me they would correct
the problem and update the freight company. This clearlyd id not happen.
Then they email me saying "the freight company has been trying to contact
you, is XXX-XXXX the right phone number?" without bothering to give me the
name of the freight company or any way to contact them until I ask for it.
Now I realize that noone is perfect and everyone has bad days, but
they have made mistakes along every step of the way here, and as near
as I can tell all the mistakes were made by different people. It feels
like they just assume they'll get dovebid business and don't have to
bother doing a good job.
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