Talk:Moving company

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It is requested that an image of a moving van be included in this article to improve its quality, if possible.

Moving should be kept separate from relocation services as moving can be carried out separately from any other relocation services, and it may not involve expatriate relocation (i.e. office or fine art moving).

I agree - the moving company section should stay! I'm new here and really don't know how, but believe MovingScam.com, RipoffReport.com, Badmovers.org and the US governments site www.protectyourmove.gov should be added to the page to educate users on the dangers of finding moving companies online. There are hundreds of news articles from ABC NEWS, CBS NEWS, 60 minutes, Dateline, etc... that can also be added. Just doing a search for "Moving Scams" in Google will pull up a 1,000,000+ results. If someone with Wiki knowledge could address the dangers of rogue movers on this section, Wiki's fame could help save countless people from becoming victim to moving scammers. Thank you for listening.

"Moving scam" is a myth, there is no such thing as organized scam going on in the industry, there are some rough moving companies, yes, but from that to start talking about some ongoing, industry wide scam is nothing but wild imagination and of course the culture the was developed by large corporation to encourage the consumer to complain about everything and to expect high level of service without actually paying for it – the infamous something for nothing rule. And lets not forget the conspiracy theory, five major Van Lines (United, North American, Mayflower, Bekins and Allied Van Lines) who anyway control the majority of this industry including all GSA and DOD relocation, like the five crime families of N.Y, have decided to share this industry and divided it between themselves only without any outside competitions, came up with this "scam" and very efficiently put so much fear in the American public from all independent moving companies, just another way to keep all the customers for themselves, keep charging prices that are 3 and 5 times higher than any other independent company can dream about. "Moving Scam" is nothing but a tale of imagination, some kind of bogyman that the five major vanlines came up with so they can stay a closed and very powerful monopoly. Gene.n.cave 13:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge of the various DIY/U-Haul style articles

Would whoever is contesting the merge and massive cleanup of these topics please discuss it here rather than performing massive unexplained reverts? MrZaius^talk 03:13, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help required

In the process of cleaning up CFB Calgary, I searched for a link to house moving, ie. taking an already-constructed house and moving it from one plot of land to the other. (This is quite common in Calgary, where land values have skyrocketed on inner-city properties; in fact, the house we're in now (and are selling) is going to be moved.) I found a page called Moving house, which was a badly-written how-to guide on moving apparently existing solely to direct readers to a commercial website. I've stubbified it instead of speedy-deleting it, as I think there could be an attributed article on the actual process of moving residential buildings going into how and why. Is that the right thing to do, and there anything else I need to do before I begin the article? (Question copied to help desk.) --NellieBly (talk) 22:44, 4 April 2008 (UTC)