that sound is just me grinding my teeth

[kristamm]

I am running into the Irish web conundrum again, which is where a company has a website and purports to allow you certain actions on it, but doesn't actually follow through. Say, a moving company that allows you to request a quote and so you put in an assload of information and all your contact deets and then you sit and wait and no one calls or

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[cartographer]

How many small boxes and how many big boxes and how many goddamn armoires and at the end they're like "Thanks for spending an hour willing in our 1998 html page. Now we'll ignore all of that and make up an unrelated quote, if we call back at all, which we probably won't."

The good thing about having to use a moving company was that all other aspects of moving to the US were comparatively pleasant.

If you have a recommendation for one that aren't complete bollockses, I'd go with it.

[kristamm]

I have several recs, that's where I STARTED, unfortunately. A week, still nothing from 2 of 3 companies I contacted. I have a double recc'd one I haven't tried yet, though, and I think they will be next.

Who did you guys use? Were you happy?

[cartographer]

I used Bond, who also seem to be called Oman, Beverly Smyth, Natross, AG Doree and McConnells. Every time I got a mail from them, it'd be from a different person and the email would have a different domain name. nice, huh? They ignored most of my emails anyway, so I had to call them all the time, and it was always like "We'll call you back in five minutes" and a day would pass and I'd call them again. They were so slow and disorganised that they ended up arranging to collect my stuff two days before I was due to fly out. They said they'd be there at 2pm. At 4, I called them, all WHAT THE SERIOUS FUCK, and they said "oh right, we're in Wexford, we'll come Saturday instead". I explained how they wouldn't because I'd be in another continent by then, and they eventually made it back to Dublin. Jesus. Three years later, I'm seething now thinking about it.

I spent my last week in Dublin really stressed out because of these people. My stuff did arrive though. That's the only thing you can say for them.

[kristamm]

Oh shit, that's the double-recommended company.

[cartographer]

It would be, really, wouldn't it? This was three years ago anyway. They might not be utter bags of syphilitic cock any more.

[kristamm]

This is reminding me of moving over here in the first place, and how everyone talked about how great Crown was, and Grace especially, while we had an incredibly craptastic experience with Grace especially. (I flew over here at our own expense to try and find a place to live and she didn't manage to turn up to meet us & look at places two days running, after T called and called and just...GAAAAAAAAAAAAH.)