`Whites Shipping`
Jul 14th 2004, 1:22 pm
#16
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Joined: Feb 2003
Location: Land down under
Posts: 446
Originally posted by jerzy
We had White & Co around. The guy who turned up was not particularly professional and didn't seem that interested in whether he got our business or not.
They took three weeks to get a quote to us, it came badly prepared with scribbled notes and post its stuck on it.
That was about a month ago, they haven't bothered to contact us since, which is just as well because if they can't be bothered with us at the quote stage they probably couldn't be bothered looking after our belongings.
On the other hand I've been very impressed with both Crown and John Mason.
We had White & Co around. The guy who turned up was not particularly professional and didn't seem that interested in whether he got our business or not.
They took three weeks to get a quote to us, it came badly prepared with scribbled notes and post its stuck on it.
That was about a month ago, they haven't bothered to contact us since, which is just as well because if they can't be bothered with us at the quote stage they probably couldn't be bothered looking after our belongings.
On the other hand I've been very impressed with both Crown and John Mason.
He must have left you then drove down to Essex!!! The guy we had was asking me how many people would it take to lift a large dresser we've got!!!! I just look at him in wonder, the quote was for over £5000, all the others were around the £3000 mark!!!!
Jul 14th 2004, 1:38 pm
#17
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Joined: Jan 2004
Location: Sydney
Posts: 118
Originally posted by leanda
He must have left you then drove down to Essex!!! The guy we had was asking me how many people would it take to lift a large dresser we've got!!!! I just look at him in wonder, the quote was for over £5000, all the others were around the £3000 mark!!!!
He must have left you then drove down to Essex!!! The guy we had was asking me how many people would it take to lift a large dresser we've got!!!! I just look at him in wonder, the quote was for over £5000, all the others were around the £3000 mark!!!!
The quote they gave us was lower than most but if their conduct so far is representative of their removal skills I wouldn't trust them.
Another removal firm told me that White's used to specialise in military moves and so are more used to moving between UK/Germany/Cyprus etc and have only recently started to do long haul removals.
Jul 14th 2004, 8:56 pm
#18
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Location: Angle vale Sth Australia
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Another removal firm told me that White's used to specialise in military moves and so are more used to moving between UK/Germany/Cyprus etc and have only recently started to do long haul removals. [/QUOTE]
I can remember jobs from Whites,[southampton] coming into Adelaide, as far back as 10yrs ago. Don,t judge the skills ,of a removal company by the sales team[guesstimator] most of these people would not know one end of a piece of furniture from the other.....most jobs we have had in from whites, seem to have been prepared and loaded well......... 
MM
Another removal firm told me that White's used to specialise in military moves and so are more used to moving between UK/Germany/Cyprus etc and have only recently started to do long haul removals. [/QUOTE]
I can remember jobs from Whites,[southampton] coming into Adelaide, as far back as 10yrs ago. Don,t judge the skills ,of a removal company by the sales team[guesstimator] most of these people would not know one end of a piece of furniture from the other.....most jobs we have had in from whites, seem to have been prepared and loaded well.........
MM
