UNPROFESSIONAL, UNETHICAL, LYING & DECEPTIVE!!

Andy H Submitted this review about Ship a Car Direct
Review made Live: 1/18/2021 2:42:00 PM
UNPROFESSIONAL, UNETHICAL, LYING & DECEPTIVE!! Don't waste your money and time with them. Do yourself a favor DON'T use SHIP A CAR DIRECT but use MONTWAY instead! Booked a transport from CA to FL in December, was told it might take a few days longer to find a driver since it's holiday season which I was ok with. Big mistake! I define a few days as 2-5 days, however, a few days to them seems to be 16 days and counting that's almost 2.5 weeks which were full of lies and deception...e.g. we have drivers going to FL this week, your car gets booked/picked up within the next 2-3 days...NOTHING! Got the VMs/emails to prove it. Or one of their customer reps told me to not cancel the order with them while simultaneously place an order with another company...very unethical. Or (this is my favorite), we are not making any money on the order...we have added our commision to the driver's fee...right lol Their customer service is non-existent...customer rep named John is the worst...called his direct line with my number showing, all I got was a dead phone line! I called his direct line with my number not showing, it went straight to his VM. Or when I called they the general customer line and asked for him...he was always out or away... The best thing when he did return my calls...my phone rang one time! and then they had the autobot going straight into my VM...he did it on purpose this way so he didn't have to talk to me and left his lies and blablabla on my VM. After waiting for 16 days I had enough and cancelled with them and placed an order with MONTWAY. Five hours later on the same day, my car was booked with a pick up date 3 days later. My car was picked up even before the pick up window and was delivered within the promised time frame 7 days later. MONTWAY was great customer service and communication from start to finish and no bullshit. MONTWAY was CHEAPER than SHIP A CAR DIRECT! Rumor has it SHIP A CAR DIRECT will GO OUT OF BUSINESS pretty soon...I believe.

Company Response
Michael Strickland from Ship a Car Direct Submitted this response.
Response Date: 1/20/2021 4:05:00 PM
Hi Andy, To paraphrase Mark Twain - The rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated. But sorry you had such a bad experience with us, and glad to hear that Montway took good care of you. It seems John really did drop the ball by setting some improper expectations. The Xmas and New Years holiday weeks are the slowest weeks of the year. Always. This year, between COVID and both holidays falling on a Friday, it was even slower than normal. John’s been doing this awhile and he should have told you when you placed your order on December 21st with a first available pickup date of Saturday 12/26 that you should not expect to see ANY interest from carriers on your vehicle until the week of January 4th at the earliest. If he had been clearer about that, I doubt you would have canceled your order in frustration on January 6th, as you did. I see in your file notes that interested carriers were becoming options as of the 5th, but don’t blame you for getting frustrated and jumping ship. There’s a big musical chairs thing that happens right after the new year, where frustrated customers that were expecting a pickup over the holidays cancel with their company and book with a new one. As sorry as I am to lose your trust and your business, Andy, I can say with confidence that we pick up far more of Montway’s rebounds than they pick up of ours. Don’t believe me? Take a quick look at their yelp page in the first two weeks of the New Year as compared to ours. But, we take full ownership of not setting the proper expectations here and fully deserve this one star review for it. We will do better. Michael