I moved from New York City to San Diego for work recently and went with CA-NY Express because they had very good reviews and their price was about $1,000 less than their reputable competitors (there were companies offering less but they had bad reviews and/or gave me a bad feeling). I actually hired them to both do the packing and moving and was generally very satisfied.\r
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PROS:\r
Very friendly, especially on the California end. Very respectful of our property and cautious about not doing any damage to the property or apt. They did a better job packing than we'd have done, both faster and safer, and it only took them a few hours to both pack it all up and take it out.\r
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Good price, generally pretty clear how everything is priced out (except for credit card issue, which I mention below). Packing your own stuff would save a fair bit of money, as it can add up quick if you have a lot of stuff, might not have gone with it if we weren't getting reimbursed for it.\r
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Delivery relatively fast once our stuff arrived on the coast. Stuff made it to California, that Monday and was scheduled that Wednesday. Overall, it took a long time for our stuff to get across the country, (pick-up May 22nd, delivery June 5th, even though our earliest availability date was 5/28). If you're in a rush, I'd recommend scheduling delivery ASAP, even if you have to have a third party on the other end to oversee delivery, as I think that makes it a lot faster.\r
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All of our stuff got here in good condition. They do a very thorough inventory process that makes it easy to make sure everything is there.\r
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CONS:\r
Only really downside, outside of a long delivery time, but I think that's a case-by-case basis, is there is a fee if you want to use credit card instead of cash on delivery. Its about 2.79%, so it ended up costing us about $40 to use credit card, which was worth it to us because we were light on cash, but might be more than you want to spend for convenience and should probably be more clear up-front. \r
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Overall, very good,would strongly recommend.
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