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Mooval Removals & Cleaning

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2Mooval Removals & Cleaning
3.6

85 reviews

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Rates and Fees
2.5
Job Satisfaction ?
2.7
Timeliness
2.6
85 reviews
rose Knox
rose KnoxVIC3 posts
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Awful experience – I intentionally booked first time slot at 7:30am, they were 3 hours late. One removalist smelt strongly of alcohol. Damaged a wall and overall a horrible experience

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Unhappy customer
Unhappy customerVIC3 posts
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WARNING!!!! Using Mooval was the biggest mistake of my move – WARNING!!!! Using Mooval was the biggest mistake of my move. What they didn’t loose they damaged or broke. They get you in with a flashy web page and I believe bogus reviews (one review was from someone called Lock Smith…really???). Then sting you and threaten to unload the van unless you pay upfront before delivery. Something they say they don’t… Read more

to. The owner does’t care and I’ve included the last text exchange I had with him in the pictures.

They overcharged me bringing in a second truck when I told them upfront I needed more space. I got charged the for the extra space but the truck they sent was too small. They sent for a 2nd truck (which by coincidence was available with a crew) and charged an additional $3000 for that! I believe this is a scam and I can see from other users that they had the same poor experience with Mooval. They also outsourced the interstate move to a 3rd party operator. This truck was filthy, it broke down on route and over half my furniture and white goods are damaged or broken. My mattress looked like it had been used to clean the truck floor and we have to throw it out. So we arrived my wife 8+ months pregnant and no bed!!! This has cost me thousands (+$8500 for a 2 bed room town house) and they totally ghosted my phone calls.

Mooval have just changed their webpage and removed the boasts of - 100% customer Satisfaction - or your money back!!! - 15 Years experience Neither are true. They don’t care about the customer’s satisfaction and will certainly not give you your money back. I know, I asked! They also have only been registered as a business since 2016 (ASIC). So much BS.. (Bull S*@T and Broken Stuff)

Update: Finally heard back after 2 weeks. Now they say they don’t offer Maritime Insurance on interstate moves and they have washed there hands of all the damage they have caused and items they have lost. These guys are so dodgy.

See you in court!

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Sachin
SachinVIC14 posts
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Terrible. Please avoid them – Booked them months in advance and on the day they sent a subcontractor / another company (Instamove) to do the job. The subcontractor took 10+ hours to move a 4 bedroom home, while it's always ever taken us only 4-5. Two guys came to do the move, one was just hanging out with his mate doing 5 minute trips to move a pillow to the truck. I started… Read more

moving things myself after a while. They didn't even organise everything in their truck, and in the end left some furniture and boxes behind and said it wouldn't fit. I moved a lot of boxes, furniture, pots in my car by doing close to 30 trips in my Honda CRV. Icing on the cake, they damaged the stairs in my brand new home. When we went to Mooval regarding this, they asked us to talk to Instamove since they did the move. Why book them if they only palm it off to someone else and don't even want to take ownership of the issues the other party creates? Terrible job, zero ownership, extremely bad customer service.

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Joshua
JoshuaVIC3 posts
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Terrible service with damages caused to home by movers – Booked with Mooval to shift a small truck loads worth of household furniture. Was advised the night before at 10pm that they’d be arriving 3 hours earlier than originally booked “due to Covid”???? Removalists spent first 25 mins of the job standing around chatting to each other in another language in my driveway (at my cost). Caused significant… Read more

damage to a freshly plastered/painted hall way while moving a fridge recklessly. Queried this with the mover on the day, he provided me with a contact email to send photos through to and that reimbursement would be sorted by the office. I received an initial response within minutes, saying they’d “follow it up”. This was 2 weeks ago. In that time they have stopped answering my calls and have ignored my follow up emails.

AVOID using them if you can, incredibly unprofessional and obviously aren’t phased by ripping people off. Very disappointed!

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lizz72
lizz72VIC3 posts
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Don’t waste your time and money . A ZERO rating is more appropriate! – These have to be the worst Removalists I have used in 20 years .. professional they are not . Day before move they cancelled the job due to sickness and had to change date . Mind you I got the call at 5.30pm for a Saturday 7.30am start . Short time after it was back on with a “new crew “ The crew did turn up on time , I’ll give them that .… Read more

However my household items were damaged , made dirty by their dirty blankets And made a massive deep scratch on the door frame . So deep that the only way to fix it is to replace it .My chest of drawers was shoved into the truck without removing the drawers and it buckled and was so damaged that draws don’t close . I noticed it just after the left , of course they wanted payment so quickly . I didn’t even get a chance to tell them . They also incorrectly calculated the bill as the 3rd persons fee wasn’t calculated correctly . Oh and didn’t take my $30 booking fee of the final bill . They had the audacity to tell me I owed them more money . Getting in touch and getting my 30 dollar refund took 2 weeks .. they are rude when they call you and it’s been 2 months and I am still dealing with it . A measly $250 was offered and still waiting on a response ..mind you the move was 6kms and charged $820 … never again . I wish I had read these reviews before I booked them . I’ll know for next time . I am sharing this so you don’t need to go through what I went through

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Ruby L.
Ruby L.VIC
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Avoid like the plague – I would strongly caution to avoid this company. My washing machine was smashed during the move from house a to house b after falling face first on the truck floor because it wasn’t strapped in properly. They haven’t taken responsibility and keep advising me via email “we’re investigating and will get back to you in due course” I moved on the… Read more

11th of June so it has been more than two weeks and I still have no idea when and if I’ll be compensated for the written off washing machine. I’m taking them to VCAT for this. Absolute fraudsters. I don’t believe they have insurance.

I was told by one of the removalists on the Saturday to let the team know about the washing machine prior to paying, otherwise they may not admit fault. I emailed them on Saturday before paying, they took 10 mins to respond and advised the team would sort it out on the following Tuesday. Funny, after I paid there’s been zero contact or ownership.

I was also charged significantly more than what I was quoted. The removalists seemed to like taking their sweet time with everything. I wouldn’t be surprised if management tell their staff to take their time on purpose.

I urge you to look elsewhere for removalists, if anything gets damaged you will be without a doubt, out of pocket

UPDATE!!! got a call the same day I wrote this review advising they would transfer me $500 (mind you, I asked for $750) only once I took my ‘bad review’ down. I’m literally being blackmailed for the money that they owe me.

Positive reviews

Diane Davenport
Diane DavenportVIC
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Sef and Simon well done – I want to thank Sef and Simon for a fantastic job they did for my move from Scoresby to Ferntree gully, they were very professional and worked extremely hard to move quite a bit of furniture and boxes and removalist bags. They new there job very well how to pack with care from and to location. Well done guys l would recommend you both.

Helenbsm
HelenbsmVIC5 posts
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Fast on time and efficient – Great and fast service. I had ALOT of items to move, booking with Moovals was easy and they were transparent with their pricing. I booked online and paid $30 booking fee, on the day of the move, I had Sergio and Gagan. They were super efficient and fast. They plan the whole process well. I am very happy with their service and would definitely use them again! Show details

Helen
HelenVIC2 posts
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Big move – We had a Big move with the 10t trucked packed to the rafters that any Tetris lover would be impressed with. Sergio, Aman & Sebastian were all amazing! They worked so hard and made every effort to keep the costs as low as possible. Super polite and friendly as well!

Negative reviews

Not Happy
Not HappyVIC
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The worst move I have ever had – They were 11/2 hours late, they left many items at the house we were leaving including drawers, 2 televisions, 10 Boxes. I thought they were going back to pick them up, but when I asked them they said they don’t take televisions. ( really helpful on moving day) At the new house I asked to make sure that they were taking y’all the boxes upstairs.… Read more

They said they were. Then as soon as the boxes were in. The company rang up for payment, which I did. I waited for them to come back in and finish and they had left without saying anything or checking everything was ok. I know have to hire someone to take boxes upstairs. Also have an antique table with a massive gash in the top which they didn’t tell me about. Don’t use them they are rude and absolute frauds.

dollarydoos
dollarydoos10 posts
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Avoid. Don't believe the 5 star reviews. They are dodgy and the worst ppl to deal with – Avoid. These ppl are extremely unprofessional and will steal your money. Booked a move and only one person showed up. They invoiced me for 2 crew members and when I disputed the invoice they told me I was lieing and they confirmed they dispatched two ppl ? Was charged $700 to move partial and bulky items of a one bed appartment for an initial… Read more

quote of $350. Will be persuing the matter with ACCC.

They added random minutes to the start and end times so they can charge me for another block. This is exclusive of 30 min travel time.

The mover took over 30 minutes longer to reach the destination and we had to call and ask if he got lost (all billable to me).

They charged a 30 dollar booking fee. The fee was not adjusted in the invoice. When asked I was told it's the priority booking fee ? But I booked 3 weeks in advance.

Look out for that on the top GST (not included in quote) and 2.5% card surcharge to be added to your payment.

The support team is unresponsive and basically doesn't care once they have your money.

Esha
EshaVIC11 posts
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Terrible service with no customer service – I have booked the removalist to move from North to West. First of all they haven't mentioned earlier that there will be extra charges for the long route, Second the removalist fuelled up their vehicle during clock starts and Third they haven't responding to the mail at all after payment received. Proceed with this compang if ready to loose money with disgraceful customer sevice!

Recent reviews

mike b.
mike b.
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Unprofessional, incompetent and bad customer service – Three-bedroom house to a short distance. Slow, boxes were everywhere and went to the wrong location. Repeated attempts at getting this fixed were met with obfuscation and delay. Don't use these guys. You will be sorry.

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J O.
J O.VIC
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Terrible service – Really disappointed with the service. We used Mooval last time we moved, but this time it was a really different experience. They rescheduled the packers, the movers were students from Columbia with a Budget (hired) truck and very inexperienced. Many things got damaged or broken. The unpackers also got rescheduled and they could not provide a… Read more

cleaner. To top that all off, they are ignoring my emails about compensating me for the damage caused to the broken items. I would not recommend using Mooval.

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Nicole
NicoleVIC2 posts
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Not a good… – I needed help moving my three bedroom unit into a storage unit 15 mins away. I had heard wonderful things about Mooval. Their quote was reasonable. I had arranged them to pack my things also. I was a bit worried when the guys turned up and said they hadn’t packed before. However the packing went well. I was however invoiced for packing equipment… Read more

that I did not receive. On moving day they arrived late, however they had rung to tell me which was good. There were two men. Unfortunately it was one of the guys first day. This was clearly evident. Broken wine bottles, broken lamps and scratches on my freshly painted walls and doors. It took 6 hours for 2 men to move which I thought was a bit steep! I was invoiced for longer than the men worked for and an hour travel time which I was told was standard even though the movers live 5 minutes away.

Unhappy
UnhappyVIC
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Table damaged and not repaired satisfactorily- very unhappy – Our table was damaged and the repair job made more damage. We had screw heads - sharpe - sticking through the table top leaving it unusable. Company refuse to do an insurance claim. The guys that did the move were very nice but the company do not help when there is an issue. They ignore you and won’t replace damaged goods. Would not recommend this company. Dry dissapointed

Frustrated
Frustrated
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Do not use this company's cleaning services - a complete no show – DO NOT go with the cleaning services of this company. Booked in for cleaning services with multiple confirmation days before and scheduled for 730am - 8am start. I waited until 11:30am and no one turned up. I tried calling, emailing, and calling again and again between 8:30am to 11:30am with no one picking up the phone or responding to emails. … Read more

Finally reached someone from 'Operations' and the person said the Operations is only for removals, not cleaning. For cleaning, he can only try for me (like doing me a favour), to reach them via email as they do not have a phone number (I asked for a direct line so I can reach out to them myself).

I got a call back at about 12 noon, saying that the job can be scheduled later in the arvo, but they had assumed that they can treat customers like they don't have anything else to do but to wait and hope with fingers and toes crossed that the cleaners will turn up sometime.

Waited for 5 hours for absolutely nothing, got a text message later in the afternoon saying that they could not find any resource to take on any more cleaning job. Left me completely high and dry now trying to find other companies to clean my house.

DO NOT USE this cleaning service, as they had already said clearly that due to the pandemic, they have no resources to take on my job.

Take the risk using the company and you might be left hanging, wasted time and at the end, a no show and they take no responsibilities for it.

Troy B.
Troy B.
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Worst experience dealing with this company – We sold our house and Mooval turned up a day after the initial booking date which caused issues with handover. This was only after I called asking where they were?? Our furniture then went into storage arranged by them until the new place was built. Two weeks later I received a call by one of their movers, saying he has my furniture and on his… Read more

way. The new place wasn't ready and this date was not booked in. So back they went to put my stuff in storage.. After more phone calls to sort the issues and finally I was moved into the new home at a later date. I now have a broken grandfather clock, broken coffee table, stained leather couch and marked TV unit. Now of course they are not responding to my attempts to contact and email them.

Jeremy R.
Jeremy R.VIC
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Friendly and efficient service! – I had a 1 bedroom apartment move into my new property and Carlos and Camilo provided excellent service that was friendly and efficient, taking great care with my belongings. They arrived on time and did a great job packing my things and transporting them over the short distance to my new place - no fuss!

Sherri W.
Sherri W.VIC
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An excellent moving experience – Big1 bedroom flat plus study. The move was over a short distance. Due to unforeseen circumstances, it started late, James and Coco were excellent and finished within the budgeted time.

Peter
PeterVIC
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Great movers – Sergio and Carlos were on time and communicated well before and during the move. Got a big heavy table up 2 flights of stairs, very impressive. Would recommend for your move

Julie
JulieQLD4 posts
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Ripped off charged extra $5k compared to quote – Quoted $7k for 4bdrm home plus shed. They turned up with a 25m3 truck already half full of someone else's furniture we were charged $4k for 10m3 of space for this trick. Another truck bigger 43m3 arrived next day and packed the rest of the furniture. No mention of extra costs until packed and finished the driver then handed over invoice for… Read more

$11,900. No discussion nothing. The driver said the company regularly does this and he hayrs this part of job because customers never get told about the extra costs. Disgusting. On arrival several items broken. We Will be taking legal action for the extra costs and broken items. To date no reply from company.

Mooval
Mooval    

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J VILLA
J VILLAVIC
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VERY HAPPY – This guys did a great job, efficient and friendly, the guys at the office were great too, answering all my questions so overall a nice and easy experience. I do recommed Mooval.

Karla
Karla
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Great movers – Camilo & Jairo were excellent & very professional. Got the job done in great time, never a complaint and very polite. They made my move a very stress free one. Would happily use again.

Grace
GraceVIC
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Watch out scammers like Frank – The mover was great. sadly, the management and the office were horrific I do not wish to deal with these people again. when quoting they will not explain the additional cost charging on the day of moving / cleaning. And quote x2 more than initial cost. Then suddenly become hostile and yelling on the phone til you give up and pay. I understand some small business have to survive with gimmics, but this was such a low act, I felt sad for it.  Show details

Mooval
Mooval    

Hi Grace, Thank you for your second review. As mentioned… Read more

Lucy
LucyVIC3 posts
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Sergio and Coco were amazing! – These guys were so great. Professional, efficient, personable. Would 100% recommend. Sergio and Coco made moving easy and stress free, and managed to pack up my whole house in such a short amount of time.

Laura G.
Laura G.VIC
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Excellent help, the best team to make your removal – I got a lot of help from the Mooval team. Camilo 2 and Wilson were an excellent help, very professional, they moved all my furniture with care. I recommend this service. They deserve five stars for everything

Aman kang
Aman kang
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Stress free move highly recommend – The guys were really good & experienced they handle our stuff gently & with care they moved me second time & im not disappointed .Garry & eddy was amazing highly recommend & will use Mooval again

Ron Jereemy
Ron Jereemy VIC
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A stressful day that turned out to be easy and hastle free... thanks to Mooval. Excellent service all round – Started the move in the late morning and had multiple pick up and drop off locations all around Melbourne, from Brunswick to Roxburgh Park to Glen Waverley. These guys handled my furniture with care and nothing was too hard!!

Louise A.
Louise A.Victoria2 posts
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Hit and Miss - Look Elsewhere – My first move Mooval was fantastic however my second move 11 months later was awful. It took over an extra 2 hours to move less boxes, no fridge and without the original 40 mins travel time. Additionally the second time a friend and I started helping as it the guys were moving so slowly. It was clear that they didn’t have anywhere to be… Read more

afterwards.

Mooval offered a small goodwill refund however when I noted that it was disproportionate to the amount that I had overpaid they became unpleasant and rescinded their offer.

It seems like it really depends on who they send you. The first time I moved, the guys were efficient and even wrapped up a few furniture items that they thought needed protecting. The second time the guys would be out at the truck for extended periods, using their phones regularly and while nothing was broken, a lot of my furniture now has scuffs and marks.

Overall the second move was stressful and unpleasant. I'll be looking elsewhere next time and encouraging my friends and family to do so as well.

Mooval
Mooval    

Hi Louise, Thank you for your review. Your first move… Read more (+2 replies)

Adam
AdamVIC2 posts
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No care or responsibility! – I have used Mooval previously with no issue and was happy to recommend to others and use again for my recent move. This one was bordering on disaster! Scratches and marks on walls, couch slightly ripped and fridge has damage all over the front. With boxes conveniently put in front of fridge, I signed off the paperwork then noticed the damage to… Read more

all furniture later that day. I called the Sales Rep who gave me an email address to send my report to. I took pictures showing damage on fridge and had to continually follow up to get any response. And when i did get a response, all i received was "Read our T and C" which stipulates once they leave, thats bad luck! Thats it! No other response or empathy at all. Now i wouldnt recommend Mooval at all and see them as just another poor removalist with no care, responsibility or ethics!

Warren PG
Warren PGVIC
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Superstars! – This guys made my moving so stress free I cant thank them enough. Lion and Steven were friendly and helpful, I am more than happy with the service. Denifitely will book with you guys again.

Jannette S.
Jannette S.
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not impressed – Damaged furniture, damaged walls and poor communication. Wish we used a different company. Overall very poor experience. Insisted on payment upfront!!! Would not recommend unless you want slow workers who aren’t careful.

Mooval
Mooval    

Hi Jannette, Sorry to hear about you experience. … Read more

Tamara K.
Tamara K.3 posts
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Not the best – I moved a 2 bedroom apartment. After a quote of 1.5 hour it took 3 hours to get the job done. So I paid 3 times the price . Also they don’t know how to remove TVs off the wall so beware!

Mooval
Mooval    

Hi Tamara, Wow, where do I begin here? We completed your… Read more

beccar
beccarVIC8 posts
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Overall poor experience – We can’t pinpoint a positive from using Mooval; we were under quoted (the final amount came in at $400 over their estimated maximum), the customer service was smarmy and one of the two guys who did the move was lazy - we ended up being passed boxes to unload by one of the guys, while the other folded blankets. The end location was a storage unit… Read more

and as they unpacked the truck, they took one trolley at a time to put in the storage unit, rather than packing the hoist with everything and doing one load. They were late to arrive (traffic excuse) and had no sense of urgency. We wish we went with another company.

Mooval
Mooval    

Hi Bec, Sorry to hear that you were not happy with the… Read more

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