PODS® Reviews
Horrible customer service. Corporate office does not communicate with local offices efficiently. Local office was so completely unprofessional. I was schedule 6 yes, 6 times and finally I had to hire a truck and empty the POD myself and drive it to my new home. When I initially mentioned this idea to "Tom" the manager of the Hartford, CT office - HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO SAY THATS A GOOD IDEA and proceeded to hang up on me. I'm disgusted by the mistreatment of myself and my family. When it came time to retrieve the empty container, it was scheduled for one day and then ONE WEEK later after repeated phone calls and frustration that the container was finally picked up. I will NEVER EVER recommend PODS to anyone I know and I will continue to bad mouth them for as long as it takes to get some compensation for my aggravation.
Confirmation emails do not parse the POD pickup/drop off times correctly so both confirmation emails did not list ANY times. I had to either call in or wait for the IVR to call me. PODS tried to pickup my POD 4 hours earlier than what was quoted the day before, leading to some frantic last minute packing which resulted in improperly packed items that were damaged.
We have PODS in NJ so we checked on-line. The person we booked with was extremely pleasant and helpful, answering all of our many questions as we had no clue what we needed. The gentlemen who dropped it off was very pleasant. We felt the on- line advertisement was helpful as it also included companies to call for help with the packing and loading of the POD. Of the three companies listed Hired Helpers was the most pleasant and helpful on the phone, that is why we chose them. All and all the experience was made much easier because of POD,HIRED HELPERS & INCREDIBLE GIANTS
All went well until the guy picking up the empty PODS backed over my sprinkler head(despite me have a fairly large rock next to it; his front passenger tire just climbed up the rock and crumpled the head). That would not have been so bad but, the driver may have been at a party the night before that lasted into the night. I would probably recommend PODS because 95% of the move went well.
Pods was a decent 2nd choice with full service unavailable. Rates good, especially for storage. Customer service for out of state move a pain in the butt Billing confusing for multiple containers, each one separated and prices varied btw containers for some reason No contact with local operations that actually touch the customer, had to work through 800 number only.
PODs staff seriously underestimated my storage needs and I had to scramble to make other arrangements for quite a bit of my property as they do not deliver or pick up containers on Sundays (why??? - everyone moves on weekends!). My closing was contingent on my buyer's closing on Friday, so I could not schedule PODs before Saturday & since you don't know when the PODs will be delivered, I had to schedule movers for Sunday & didn't have enough space. They also told me 2 containers would fit on a 2-car garage driveway side-by-side, but they couldn't so 1 container sat partially on the grass.
A cross-country POD move is pricey, but was worth the expense,since we didn't have a permanent residence to move to right away. The unit was clean, the delivery and pickup staff were well-prepared. Delivery occurred during the windows provided, which was a concern since staff said they couldn't even guarantee the window. Overall, a great service. We would recommend it to anyone doing a long-distance move requiring short-term storage.
PODS was terrific to work with - their customer service is EXCELLENT and they helped me with everything I needed, including last-minute schedule changes. Without exception, all of the drivers were professional, courteous, and very accommodating of making sure the PODS was in the place it needed to be. Terrific experience.
They were timely and customer service was a joy to work with. They answered all my questions respectfully. They called to let me know when the PODS were being delivered and actually showed up when they said they would. PODS were bigger containers than UHaul. They were in good shape. I would use them again. They were delivered to my new place of residence in 8 working days - fast service.