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I need to ship my car from Long Island to Sarasota.
Problem is, I only have a 2 day window in NY for pickup. A delivery date is not such a big deal.
In reading reviews, I see complaint after complaint about late pickups. I simply cannot allow for that to happen.
Also, there is a cost matter. Last year, I searched for a transporter, and the place that seemed best gave me a $700 quote. The other day, that same company gave me a $1125 quote! And the price of fuel is down from last year.
WOW - searched for reviews on several sites. They may have the worst set of reviews I've ever seen!
There's the problem - too many of them have reviews like this, and a huge number of reviews are due to not being picked up on time. also many for this company where the driver demanded more money than was contracted for with uship before releasing the vehicle.
WOW - searched for reviews on several sites. They may have the worst set of reviews I've ever seen!
There's the problem - too many of them have reviews like this, and a huge number of reviews are due to not being picked up on time. also many for this company where the driver demanded more money than was contracted for with uship before releasing the vehicle.
uship.com is just essentially an auction site- it's not the company that actually moves your car. Once you get bids on uship you can check the reviews of individual shippers and make your decision. They have other forms of shipment as well, where they link you with people using pre-agreed rates, but the same idea applies.
I've done a car with them and had no problems with the independent carrier that it linked me to, but that carrier also happened to have good reviews (which is why I chose that carrier).
Your post is like saying "I would never use ebay because ebay has bad reviews", even though it's the individual sellers whose reviews you need to read.
If you are willing to pay more to get better service, you might consider one of the collector car moving outfits, ones that take one or two cars at a time and have fully enclosed carriage.
Standard car carriers are problematic if the entire load of cars is not going to the same place.
A lot of retired policemen do auto driveaways. The companies are in the phone books of major US cities, or if you know one- ask. They'll pick your car up at your house, drive it to Florida and drop it wherever you want. You usually have to pay their fare home, unless they can get a return driveaway.
There is a company called "Auto Plane" that runs out of MacArthur Airport. You drop your car off at the airport and they drop it off in Fort Meyers. Not sure about the price or reviews. Just a thought.
Can you leave the car with a trusted friend for pickup? That's what I did a few times, did that for drop off too as deployment schedules can change suddenly.
As for uShip, I think you can find better ways. They're an auction site, like it was previously stated and they charge a fee on your end and the end of the car shipping company. It works out to about 20% for them to basically exchange contact information between the two of you.
Find a driver, not a broker. Why pay a middle man?
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