Maverick Moving

This company advertises on Craigslist, a rate of $ 75.oo per hour for residential moving services which includes two movers and a truck. When I emailed my information to the owner, Michael, (I have a one bedroom going to storage 4 blocks away) he responded with a quote of $ 1,600.00, as well as an incredibly weird email in response to my email declining his services due to the obvious change in prices… We ultimately went with Soleil Moving which is licensed and insured and gave us an estimate of under $ 400.00. The email from Maverick owner, Michael, is below verbatim (I take no credit for his typos):
My declining email —
Hi Michael:
Thank you for taking the time to estimate a quote for us. Unfortunately, the estimate is nowhere close to the competitive prices you post on Craigslist.
The
calculator feature is helpful, but not in line with the Austin market.
We will be going with another moving company.
Owner’s response —
Your entitled to you to you opinion– but
is updated to the Austin market (so you are wrong on that). What get’s me at times is that people think because we are on craigslist that we are going to do moves for pennies (most our moves come through our referrals-​Amber throws some ads up because it is another SMALL way to get more business). Look at the fake/​garbage ads on craigslist-​most are not real pics/​they are not licensed or bonded/​can not spell or write, so you get what you pay for out there (the inept get’s us business). – I get calls every week from customers that hired movers that don’t show up for jobs or start a job and the customer realizes they hired amateurs.
In every business there has to be a more high end place to shop at so to speak (it’s gets even higher then us-​so I’m surprised at your email but then again I can tell that your not fully educated in the moving business). I can buy a dollar burger at Mcdonalds or go to Roaring Fork and buy a 20 dollar burger. We are the 20 dollar burger, it’s not for every one. We stay busy and been busy since 1999 so I know I’m doing something right. When your dealing with 300,000−1 million dollar homes in the Austin market with $ 30,000-$ 100,000 of personal belongings our prices are with high standards to get the belongings from home A to home B without DAMAGE.
Hopefully your movers do you right. Have a good Sunday, looks to be another nice day…

Rude! Guy on the phone told my daughter she sounded «weird» and he didn’t want the job! He didn’t get it.