lauralollipop

yea, i'd of been stuffed when the little create arrived wouldnt i?!!LOL

Thought i'd got a bargin aswell LOL

natty

Hi Laura

we had Crown round last week and we are also just shipping a computer, a bike and all our personal belongings ( clothes, photo albums, pictures, frames, bed linen) etc etc

the quote came in at £1800 which i think is a lot ( especially as a quote for everything from them - all furniture etc) was £3300. Its seems a lot for just a few boxes.

I know Crown have a good reputation and the bloke that came was great so am not sure what do at present.

I contacted Excess Baggage also but they dont send anyone round so I really didnt know how many boxes I would need. Anyway I roughly estimated it and their quote was only £600 but they dont pack anything- you have to do it all yourself. I am not sure I would be able to pack things well enough and I dont want to find everything smashed when I get there !!

Decisions, Decisions !!!!!

Oh well I have a couple of months yet so have time to decide.

Good luck with getting a new quote and try Excess Baggage.

Nat

lauralollipop

Hi nat

thanks for the info, think i'll give crown a miss now too expensive . did get some other quoutes loads cheaper, you could try seven seas or pickfords, they quoted us £140 for 1st box and £40 thereafter, and £89 1st box and £45 thereafter......so we will prob use one of them.

let me know if you get any other good uns???
good luck
laura
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Elaine M

Hi Kala,

My stuff was picked up on 29 June and arrived in Adelaide about 7 August I think - before I did! I was going to get it all delivered to my sister's but decided 75 cu ft was too much to ask her to keep for me, so it went straight into storage in the end. No problem with any of the arrangements, well packed and delivered safely to my new house with only a few days notice.

For me Crown was the cheapest quote but I guess it depends on where you're going to and from; there's an office quite near where I lived in the UK and they have an office here in Adelaide so it was all straightforward.

Elaine M

1CC

Hi Laura,

We used Crown and found them excellent. They were on the more expensive side but they're packing and after sales support was good. We arrived last november and our container (which was due in Dec.)took longer than expected to clear customs. We eventually got our belongings at begining of Feb. We had no breakages and they returned, when asked, to pick up all the packing materials.

Good luck.

Colin

The Druid

Take some advise and dont do pickfords, had a shokker out of Johannesburg

lauralollipop

cheers,for the advice, i think ill try PSS,as they seem reasonable enough any thing i should know about them before i book??


laura
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MarkandJulie

Hi,

Crown moved our full house from West Yorkshire to Brisbane and they were fantastic at both ends. Everything went exactly as they said it would. Everything aarived in perfect condition. Cannot recommend them highly enough

Geordie George

Hi Laura,

We're going with PSS. It's worth remembering that you can haggle with them about the cost. Hubbie called them after their quote came in and said that we were keen to use them, but that they were too expensive. So they knocked 100 squid off - just like that! Revised quote is now in the post and we expect to be sending the paperwork off to them next week to get ourselves booked in.

GG

lauralollipop

thanks gorgie

i think i will call them out for a qoute for whole lot then and try to haggle, i also have a £50 voucher for them lying around somewhere....
ill call them on monday and ill let you all know how we get on

laura
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Paul and Chloe

We had a quote from Crown for move from UK to Perth for 770Cubic feet of stuff, this came to £3800 door to door, we reduced the volume to 570 cu feet and the quote came in at £1089 door to door.....needles to say we are going with the more recent quote!!

We had 3 firms quote for us and Crown were by far the most professional, called the night before to confirm appointment next day was still ok. The lady from Crown spent 1hr 15mins assessing the stuff we wanted to take compared to 20 minutes by the other two firms.


Cheers

Paul

carlos1340

We used Crown, not the cheapest of quotes, but seemed a lot more professional. We also liked the fact that they are Crown at both ends(going to Brisbane), therefore they don't subcontract out and you only have to deal with one lot if things do go wrong. They came and collected our 20ft containers worth of stuff at the end of November, held it in storage for us for two weeks for free, and hopefully it should arrive and go through customs just as we finish our 5 weeks touring/walkabout/holiday.

Also Crown include the customs inspection charge, so that it gets done right away, without us having to pay out as soon as it arrives.

We'll let you know how we get on in about 7 weeks when in theory we will be reunited!

Carlos

anya4oz

We used Crown. Had loads of problems and it all got very stressful. I'm afraid they are not as good as they would have us all believe. Our goods took several weeks getting here, too, & their UK admin people are a TOTAL NIGHTMARE (Melbourne Admin people a lot better).

Be *very* wary, is what I'd say...

Anya.

YFitz

The government here in WA gives you $150 for buying a front loader instead of a top loader purely because they use so much less water. I cant say oif this is nationwide or not. You can buy a front loader for between $700 (for a good one on special) up to about $1500.

How does this work, Kala?
Does the $150 get taken off the ticket price or do you claim it back?
Cheers
Yv

mr mover

I think you will find, Pickfords uk will do a better job than the jo,burg group, we have had some really bad jobs from, saf,pickfords and Stutterfords, they even employ armed guards to stop the loading crews from running off with the goods ................ mm