allyd75

I too had a really awful experience with a shipping company used to transport our household items to Australia. They turned up with no boxes, so had to take everything in the back of their truck. When I asked company questions e.g. was it their company receiving the shipment in Australia, they had no idea! I asked for it to be shipped as soon as we paid for it, on July 4th 2012, only to find out it was still in the UK when I enquired on our leaving date (July 31st). When I contacted them again in middle of August for the shipping details they advised me that it was going to be shipped on 31st August!!! It was a different company they used at this end (who were actually really good). A few broken items: Mirror smashed - because they didnt pack it properly and no fragile stickers on The leather corner suite was scuffed! The TV standed watch scratched Dining room table was missing a chunk from the corner! My Mobile Beauty case was dented The Subwoofer to our cinema system was broken Basically I should have sold everything in the UK and bought new when we got here! or better still used a recommended company. Company liaiblity only paid us £120 for the damaged items. Though for the delay they did compensate us £300. In that time I couldnt do any of my beauty work as I didnt have my tools, so loss of earnings. Our insurance company wanted us to get repairs done rather than replace items but as the excess was £500 we decided not to persue. What a nightmare! PM me if you want to know the name of the company.

Hi scully81, my husband and i are moving to Toowoomba and im fretting about renting. How hard was it? I have my mortgage statements, some utility bills and 6 moths of bank statement...do you yhink thats enough?

We have used Whites and wished we hadn't. Paid them 3 weeks ago when they came for our things and it was supposed to be shipped on the next boat, which they told us go every day then they changed this to every week, and its still sitting on the dock in London. We told them we didnt want storage for the simple reason we were assured it would be shipped straight away. We have rang them 3 times now only for them to tell us they will ring us back and they still haven't!!!:realmad: Really worried now as this happened to my parents a few years ago where their crate was sitting on the docks and it was opened and some of their things were pinched as well as making the crate non waterproof. All her things were mouldy, wet and broken! Be very careful!