Ebay Advice - Pick Up Only

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by 6949:
  {slight threadjack}
 Anyone have advice for a cross-country move? Shipping vs. driving a U-haul? Any recommendations on shipping companies or horror stories?

same thing as smackie.  got a door-to-door pod, filled it up. . they picked it up, moved it across country and stored it for a month or two until we moved into a new place.  we still needed a u-haul though for stuff that we didn't want to put into the pod for various reasons though (and we were returning furniture back to wife's parents in chicago).

[6949]

Thanks everyone. I was just reading the  message board on movingscam.com and someone said the price of one pod from DC to SF was $6500.  I'm going to need some extra cash. Are there any more sports that we can bet on?
 
 I checked budget for a rental truck
 $927.00/ 10 days & Unlimited Miles leaving Bethesda, MD or $2,131.00 if I leave 9 miles north of there in Gaithersburg.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by 6949:
  Thanks everyone. I was just reading the  message board on movingscam.com and someone said the price of one pod from DC to SF was $6500.  I'm going to need some extra cash. Are there any more sports that we can bet on?
 
 I checked budget for a rental truck
 $927.00/ 10 days & Unlimited Miles leaving Bethesda, MD or $2,131.00 if I leave 9 miles north of there in Gaithersburg.

i think we paid $2,500 for the pod, that includes the cost to ship it and 1 month of storage. . .be careful which company people are talking about.  there's a separate company called PODS that offer much bigger pods (lower case p) than Door-To-Door

[vansmack]

Originally posted by 6949:
  Thanks everyone. I was just reading the  message board on movingscam.com and someone said the price of one pod from DC to SF was $6500.

We paid less than $1500 for our move with Door to Door.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by 6949:
  I checked budget for a rental truck
 $927.00/ 10 days & Unlimited Miles leaving Bethesda, MD or $2,131.00 if I leave 9 miles north of there in Gaithersburg.

Don't forget Gas, Food, Hotel, and the sleep lost parked outside a Motel 6 in a city you've never been in with your entire life in the back of a truck protected by a pad lock.

[6949]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by 6949:
  I checked budget for a rental truck
 $927.00/ 10 days & Unlimited Miles leaving Bethesda, MD or $2,131.00 if I leave 9 miles north of there in Gaithersburg.

Don't forget Gas, Food, Hotel, and the sleep lost parked outside a Motel 6 in a city you've never been in with your entire life in the back of a truck protected by a pad lock. [/b]

I accounted for gas/hotel but not food. Since I'm LA bound I'll be restricted to a diet of cocaine and smartwater.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by 6949:
  I accounted for gas/hotel but not food. Since I'm LA bound I'll be restricted to a diet of cocaine and smartwater.

Actually, we put the cocaine in the Vitamin Water now to save time.
 
 Congrats.  Which part of LA?

[tigersscareme]

will you let us know what it is if/when you win?
 
 i'm a furniture nerd.

[thirsty moore]

Will do.  At the moment, my main concern is whether it's legitimate or knock off.

[tigersscareme]

if you want tips, feel free to hit me up for advice. i've bought and seen a lot of furniture for my old job.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by tigers scare me:
  if you want tips, feel free to hit me up for advice. i've bought and seen a lot of furniture for my old job.

Don't trust him econo.  Tigers scare me too.

[thirsty moore]

It's a gal, smackie.  
 
 

Originally posted by vansmack:
 Don't trust him econo.  Tigers scare me too.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by econo:
  It's a gal, smackie.  
 
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
 Don't trust him econo.  Tigers scare me too.

[/b]

Now I know for sure you can't trust her!

[vansmack]

Originally posted by tigers scare me:
  if you want tips, feel free to hit me up for advice. i've bought and seen a lot of furniture for my old job.

Hi, I'm vansmack.

[thirsty moore]

I think she even books Ft. Reno!