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Hi! I’m Sophie Masson and this is my moving experience with MoveMate
I booked my move with MoveMate well in advance. I was moving from one apartment in Montreal to another one about a street over. “This move will be simple,” I thought. The only problem was that no morning times were available on May 1st, but I assumed my (old) landlord would be understanding because of COVID-19. “It will be fine.” It was not fine.
A couple of days before I was supposed to move, I got an email from my landlord asking what date and time I was moving out. I responded and explained that the only time I could secure for May 1st was 1:00pm. I got a very passive aggressive email in return asking me to change it to the morning. Now, I started to panic. Racing to the MoveMate website, I went through all the steps to see if an earlier time had opened up. To my surprise, there were quite a few. The question was: how do I rebook my move? Should I just book another move and cancel the old one? What was I going to eat for dinner? Okay, there were many questions.
I sent an email to customer support. To my pleasant surprise, less than two minutes later (yes, the customer service was that good), I got a call from an unknown number. It was MoveMate! The guy on the phone was very helpful and was able to change the time of my move directly. All was settled. I wrote an equally passive aggressive email to my landlord about how I successfully changed the time of my move to 7:30. In. The. Morning (Ugh).
The actual move went smoothly. They packed up my apartment and even figured out how to take apart the nightmare that is an Ikea bed frame; however, the hardest part was yet to come. Did I mention my new apartment has three flights of stairs? With no elevator? No? Well, it does. While the Mates were lugging my stuff up the first two flights of stairs, I was struggling to open the front door. There were two locks and my key ring had four different keys. I knew which one unlocked the top lock, but I had no idea how to open the bottom lock. I tried one key. Didn’t work. I tried another key. Nothing. I tried the fourth key… Did I even have the right key with me??
I could feel the sweat dripping down my face as each key failed. What was I going to do? Before I could freak out, Will (one of the Mates) suggested I flip the key that opened the top lock upside down. Naturally, it worked. My sigh of relief was so great that I ended up swallowing my gum in the process. Luckily they were there to help or I might still be locked out to this day.
If this move taught me anything, it’s that I should really leave things to the professional movers. Thank you for your services MoveMate!
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