Ecobox

Well, I am moving– moving from Mission (the flood was interesting :(- my VW beetle never survived it) to a condo I have bought — so Woohoo! I am excited for sure.
I was looking for a good option for boxes — in the past Ive done the cardboard liquor store box thing — my sister advised I never do that again! So I did some research and got 2 quotes, one from Frogbox and one from Ecobox. Ecobox was literally more than 50% less. Now you may be thinking, why would I want to rent boxes? Well primarily — it makes the moving day easier, the boxes are uniform, stack and work and add in delivery and pick up and its a very good thing.
Ecobox has free delivery and pick up — Frogbox did not (a 55 dollar savings). I ordered the # 2 combo — 25 regular size (they are the green boxes) and 10 of the large (blue), for 5 weeks of rentals it cost me about 140 bucks. Good thing too, is that renting boxes is a good motivator to unpack all your stuff and set up your new pad. The boxes themselves are solid plastic (not too heavy with locking lids (no tape needed of course) the handles are soft round edged plastic, not sharp. Very easy to move and lift.
Now onto the details of my experience.
First impression — the website was easy to use and the confirmation email back was great — very friendly and easy — everything on the receipt was worded in a way that was very cool. Almost conversational, a little detail, but cool. I followed up with a phone call just to double check — the woman on the phone was sooo nice.
I ended up asking for them a week earlier to make sure I have enough time to pack, and the girl said no worries — they will just bill you when they drop em off.
So today the boxes arrived (my drop off window was between 10am and 12 pm and they were right on time — literally just before 10. The guys were incredibily friendly and «real» — genuine is perhaps a better word. Very nice.
They zipped my credit card through a little card reader on an iphone (cool) and emailed the receipt for the extra week I requested. Even gave me labels for my boxes.
Next time I see these folks will be on pick up day.
All in all, a great experience and I cant recommend them enough. It definitely paid to shop around. Ecobox is great — and great for the environment too. Love it.