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International moving companies can look similar on the surface. Keep these differentiating factors in mind when choosing the company that’s right for your relocation needs.
Understand Your Needs
Understand what’s important to you. As we’ve mentioned earlier, moving to another county can be a daunting and stressful undertaking. Individuals each have unique stressors and tolerable anxiety levels. Beyond knowing what you need to ship, it’s important to have an understanding of what kind of stress is okay for you, and what kind, or how much, isn’t acceptable.
If you have sentimentally valuable assets that you can’t live without, a company’s great insurance policy won’t mean much to you should those items get damaged. Instead, choose a company with a long track record of safe deliveries. On the other hand, if your valuables can be replaced easily by purchasing new ones, or on-time delivery is paramount, a company with great insurance options may be of more importance to you.
Reviews
Although moving to a new country can be complex, international moving companies, for the most part, all provide similar services. Online reviews can be an excellent tool to help sort through all of them and start to zero-in on a few choices. For best results, choose several companies and look at them side-by-side on a few different review sites.
Pay attention to what some of the reviewers say. Often you’ll start to see a pattern with individual companies. They may have many complaints regarding customer service, late deliveries or any number of other common issues. Having an understanding of what’s important to you will help you avoid companies with particular weaknesses.
Get Quotes
As with any major service purchase, you’ll want to obtain at least three detailed price quotes from the companies on your shortlist. Quotes can be tricky to decipher. Determine first, if the quote is an absolute price or an estimated cost. With an absolute price, the moving company shoulders any risk. They won’t charge you more money if things go wrong. Estimated quotes are less expensive at the outset, but the risk is placed on the customer.
Be sure to compare the same type of quotes so you can realistically judge several against each other. Remember that the lowest-priced quote is not always the best option for you.
Ask Questions
International relocation costs real money. Most people only do it once or less in a lifetime. It’s not unusual to have questions. After all, it’s unlikely you’ll know many people in a similar situation. Your moving company should have a profound understanding of this fact. Don’t be afraid to ask for clarification of even the smallest details.
If you perceive any hesitation by a moving company to provide detailed answers, simply move on to the next contender.
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