On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:33:55 GMT, shark@tack.com wrote:

>Anyone used NZ VanLines to move house recently?
>If so what is your opinion of them ?
>TIA

Many thanks for such a full reply TEXAN.
Thanks to all others how replied, it sems that Vanlines should be
avoided.
Crown seems VERY expensive, their quote is a little more than double
of the others.
Any thoughts on Allied Pickfords ??
Cheers.

From:	newsreader
Subject:	Re: Moving house
Date:	Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:59:14 +1300

wrote in message
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> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:33:55 GMT, shark@tack.com wrote:
>
> Crown seems VERY expensive, their quote is a little more than double
> of the others.

You get what you pay for.
They are expensive but worth every penny.

They exercise extreme care when packing and shifting stuff with the result
of zero losses, damage or delays.

Very high standards worldwide.

From:	goneill
Subject:	Re: Moving house
Date:	Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:38:32 +1300

They are expensive but worth every penny.
>
> They exercise extreme care when packing and shifting stuff with the result
> of zero losses, damage or delays.
I agree on this comment ,my mother in law shifted intercity with them
without
a single problem, included some fragile antiques.

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>
> wrote in message
> news:41cb16ce.911640@news.paradise.net.nz...
>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:33:55 GMT, shark@tack.com wrote:
>>
>> Crown seems VERY expensive, their quote is a little more than double
>> of the others.
>
> You get what you pay for.
> They are expensive but worth every penny.
>
> They exercise extreme care when packing and shifting stuff with the result
> of zero losses, damage or delays.
>
> Very high standards worldwide.
>
>
>

From:	Ross Dawson
Subject:	Re: Moving house
Date:	Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:38:35 +1300

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:04:57 GMT, shark@tack.com wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:33:55 GMT, shark@tack.com wrote:
>
>>Anyone used NZ VanLines to move house recently?
>>If so what is your opinion of them ?
>>TIA
>
>
>Many thanks for such a full reply TEXAN.
>Thanks to all others how replied, it sems that Vanlines should be
>avoided.
>Crown seems VERY expensive, their quote is a little more than double
>of the others.
>Any thoughts on Allied Pickfords ??
>Cheers.

I have never used Crown, but have heard good things about them even
from their opposition, so I guess they can't be all bad.

Alied Pickford seem OK packing reasonably thorough, my problem with
them was delivery, my stuff turned up over about a 3 week period,
price was very good though. One thing to be wary of is add ons,
insurance isn't usually quoted for unless you ask for it, and it does
vary from company to company by quite a margin.

--
Cheers for now

Ross Dawson.

From:	Dave Taylor
Subject:	Re: Moving house
Date:	27 Dec 2004 20:55:33 +1300

When I moved here from Vancouver "The Moving Company" took care of the
Christchurch, NZ side of things. I had no problems FWIW.

--
Ciao, Dave

From:	Kerry
Subject:	Re: Moving house
Date:	Sun, 26 Dec 2004 00:14:06 +1300

In article <41cb16ce.911640@news.paradise.net.nz>, shark@tack.com
wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:33:55 GMT, shark@tack.com wrote:
>
> >Anyone used NZ VanLines to move house recently?
> >If so what is your opinion of them ?
> >TIA
>
>
> Many thanks for such a full reply TEXAN.
> Thanks to all others how replied, it sems that Vanlines should be
> avoided.
> Crown seems VERY expensive, their quote is a little more than double
> of the others.
> Any thoughts on Allied Pickfords ??
> Cheers.

I used Allied. On the day some raggle taggle chaps casually arrived,
and I thought uh oh. They were fab. Did a good job, worked very hard,
not a single loss or breakage.

They were reasonably expensive, but I cannot fault the service

K

From:	cobs
Subject:	Re: Moving house
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:10:54 +1300

shark@tack.com wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:33:55 GMT, shark@tack.com wrote:
>
>
>>Anyone used NZ VanLines to move house recently?
>>If so what is your opinion of them ?
>>TIA
>
>
>
> Many thanks for such a full reply TEXAN.
> Thanks to all others how replied, it sems that Vanlines should be
> avoided.
> Crown seems VERY expensive, their quote is a little more than double
> of the others.
> Any thoughts on Allied Pickfords ??
> Cheers.

Don't know about AP, but we used Grace earlier this year, and they were
great - careful, easy to talk to, good service, would use them again.
(Initially looked at them on the say-so of a workmate.)
Family used them recently on our recommendation and also found them to
be really good.

Both moves were across town, PBO. I've got no interest in the company
other than being a satisfied customer.

From:	Wally
Subject:	Re: Moving house
Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:17:47 +1300

wrote in message
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> Anyone used NZ VanLines to move house recently?
> If so what is your opinion of them ?
> TIA
Not recently, but in 1998 and I found them hopeless, damaging and losing a
lot of our precious belongings. Their support afterwards was non-existent

From:	Ross Dawson
Subject:	Re: Moving house
Date:	Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:00:40 +1300

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:17:47 +1300, "Wally" wrote:

> wrote in message
>news:41c8eaf1.6521203@news.paradise.net.nz...
>> Anyone used NZ VanLines to move house recently?
>> If so what is your opinion of them ?
>> TIA
>Not recently, but in 1998 and I found them hopeless, damaging and losing a
>lot of our precious belongings. Their support afterwards was non-existent
>
>> Anyone used NZ VanLines to move house recently?
>> If so what is your opinion of them ?
>> TIA
>Not recently, but in 1998 and I found them hopeless, damaging and losing a
>lot of our precious belongings. Their support afterwards was non-existent
>
I used them in 1999 and found their service mediocre, packing though
adequate barely so, transport and delivery reasonable, breakages few,
after sales service very poor, price reasonable. I think I had the
packer from hell, all she wanted to do was get in get out and move on,
and took little care in packing, the other staff however did take care
which I suspect is the only thing which led to the low breakage rate I
had.

--
Cheers for now

Ross Dawson.