Complaint Review: Big Sam Moving - Jersey City New Jersey
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- Big Sam Moving 110 1st Street Jersey City Jersey City, New Jersey U.S.A.
- Phone: 646-5299241
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- Category: Moving Companies
Big Sam Moving ripoff! UNSCRUPULUS COMPANY! Jersey City New Jersey
*Consumer Comment: Big Sam Moving - 3 different addresses, Same Company
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Big Sam Moving Rip-off Report #84778
*UPDATE Employee: Alex is a Liar and a Drug Addict
*UPDATE Employee: NO COMPLAINT FILED WITH DOT
*Consumer Comment: Disgruntled Employee
*Consumer Suggestion: Alex, please do your part! Letting them go will obviously hurt a lot of people, both customers and workers.
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Please be advised that BIG SAM MOVING, located at 110 First Street in Jersey City, NJ, is an unscrupulous company that regularly cheats its workers of wages and customers of possessions.
The company is owned by Mr. Basam (last name unknown), who goes under the names of Sam or Mike. He uses aliases when he doesn't have enough workers for a job and goes himself to act as a helper, but does not want the client to know that he is the company's owner.
As a former employee, I witnessed first-hand as he stole items from customers that were meant to be kept safe in storage. He stole tool boxes and hand trucks from customers and used them in his business. He does not have insurance available for his clients and when they request it, he claims that he must call his broker, which would take too long. So, if anything gets broken, the customer is only reimbursed for 60 cents per pound so a $3000, 100 pound television would be reimbursed for just $60! In addition, Mr. Basam holds his workers financially responsible for any damage that occurs in the course of moving, even if the cause for the damage is unclear.
The storage, where customers' furniture is kept, is a dilapidated warehouse filled with rats and mice who regularly feast on the sofas and other stuffed items that are kept there. Once, when I delivered furniture from the storage to a customer's house, mice ran out from the sofa we were carrying. Naturally, the customer was horrified!
Many of his workers are ex-convicts, recent immigrants, or homeless people who have few resources and are therefore easily taken advantage of. These are often desperate people who sometimes steal from the customers, since Mr. Basam is reluctant to pay them their wages on time. If the customer complains about theft, then Mr. Basam opens his own wallet and pays to reimburse the client, so that no complaints will be filed against him or his company.
His wife, who answers the phone, always quotes the cheapest price possible to the customer, pretending that a $1,000 job can be done $300 to $500. She does not speak English well, which further confuses the customers. It is then up to his foremen to inform the client about the realistic cost of the move, which immediately causes conflicts between the clients and the movers. The hostility is so extreme that on occasion the movers have had to call the police in order to settle the contract for an amount that the client did not expect.
Sometimes Mr. Basam's wife negotiates a flat-rate contract again for a ridiculously low amount. Then, when the workers are confronted with a much larger job than they expected, they have to work for less than minimum wage, as they will only be paid a flat rate, no matter how many hours the job actually takes. Often they work for 9 hours but are only paid for 5 the hours of work enumerated in the contract.
On occasion, Mr. Barsam gets two workers to agree to split hours. In other words, instead of one person working for $7 to $9 an hour, two people have to split that and therefore only make $3.50 to $4.50 per hour apiece. These are grown men, often with families to support. And the work is extremely difficult: The men sometimes have to lift heavy furniture up 3 or 4 flights of stairs with no elevator. He picks out these unfortunates by calling more people than he needs, early in the morning, and then latest them wait for hours and hours until a job may become available. If they wait long enough, he knows they're desperate enough to work for almost nothing.
Many of his employees are drug addicts and dealers, because no one else will remain in his employ for long. Mr. Basam sends these troubled, desperate people into the homes of unsuspecting customers. Most people working in his company are illegally employed and have no skills as movers. They tend to work for just a couple of days to make some money, and then disappear.
When I was working for Mr. Basam, I was considered a full-time employee, with taxes withheld from my wages, However, I was never given a W4 form to fill out. Mr. Basam told me that he was withholding Social Security tax and regularly deducted a percentage from my paycheck. However, the checks did not itemize the amount withheld and there were no records of how much he deducted from my salary. At the end of the year, he never sent me a 1099 form. In other words, he pocketed the money he was supposedly withholding for the government.
Alex
jersey city, New Jersey
U.S.A.
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#6 Consumer Comment
Big Sam Moving - 3 different addresses, Same Company
AUTHOR: Spavi - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Please be advised that Big Sam Moving at 234 16 Street Jeresy City is the same company reported on http://www.ripoffreport.com/moving-companies/big-sam-moving/big-sam-moving-ripoff-unscrup-d2755.htm at the OLD address of 110 1st Street Jersey City, NJ
There is also another address on their Web site at www.bigsammovers.com listed as 1966 West 5th St., Brooklyn, NY with the same phone numbers.
The BROOKLYN address is NOT a moving company, or a warehouse but a private residence - you can use Google Earth to verify.
Also, the URLS:
www.bigsamMOVING.com
www.bigsamSTORAGE.com
are both redirected to www.bigsamMOVERS.com
ANYONE UP FOR A SHELL GAME??
#5 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Big Sam Moving Rip-off Report #84778
AUTHOR: Victoria - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, October 30, 2010
Please remove this report off the site. The ex-employee Alex was replace from his position due to theft and other criminal acts by authority.
Thank You,
Big Sam moving
#4 UPDATE Employee
Alex is a Liar and a Drug Addict
AUTHOR: David - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, March 19, 2009
"Alex" the person complaining about Big Sam was fired from the company for reporting to work high. He is a LIAR and a DRUG ADDICT, and he cannot get a job with ANY moving company because of his employment record. Don't believe a word of his complaint. Big Sam is a great company with EXCELLENT customer service. Sam has an on-site woodworking shop and his "hobby" is making customers DELIGHTED when he offers to fix or restore broken antique furniture. I am the I.T. manager here, so I know from whence I speak.
#3 UPDATE Employee
NO COMPLAINT FILED WITH DOT
AUTHOR: David - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
PS TO PRIOR REBUTTAL
Re: suggestion made in "rebuttal" form:
Rebuttal Consumer Suggestion
Submitted: 3/22/2004 7:51:32 AM Modified: 3/22/2004 10:32:16 AM
The person identified as
Sharon - Alexandria, Virginia
made the following suggestion to "Alex":
Alex, please do your part! Letting them go will obviously hurt a lot of people, both customers and workers.
Alex, you hold very important information on this company. Please call the following phone number and let the Department of Transportation know all these things! Letting them go will obviously hurt a lot of people, both customers and workers. Do you really want Mr. Basam to get away with this?
1-800-DOT-SAFT (hotline to the FMCSA)
and call the Queens County DA (history of arresting scam movers)www.queensda.org.
Thank you so much for sharing your story!
Sharon - Alexandria, Virginia
U.S.A.
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The person identified as "Alex" took no such action. He did NOT contact the department of Transportation, and he did not do so because his ludicrous allegations could not be substantiated, and if he were called to testify under oath and under penalty of perjury, he could not - even though he claims to have seen rats run out of customer's furniture, and TAX laws being violated, etc., ad nauseum - he could not provide one iota of proof that his LIES are anything but LIES.... If he identified himself, he could be SUED, and if he swore that anything he wrote was true under oath, he would be in jail for PERJURY.
DOES THAT TELL YOU ANYTHING about the credibility of this person calling himself "Alex"?
#2 Consumer Comment
Disgruntled Employee
AUTHOR: Avi - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, May 04, 2006
The employee ALEX who wrote this scathing and scandalous report about my company was an employee of ANOTHER moving company when he came to OUR company to meet an employee here in order to pick a fight with him. OUR employee defended himself, and poor ol' ALEX got his a** whupped big-time. Big Sam Moving has had nothing to do with this person ALEX for a long time, and we just found his "review" today (5/4/06).
Normally, a thing like this does not even merit a response, because the company has a 20-year reputation, and we are well-known and highly respected in this business. It just twists my knickers that someone who is as jaundiced and twisted as this guy ALEX, would stoop to such tactics as trying to disparage a man's business for something he had nothing to do with. The Internet should not be a forum for pissing contests, but your site seems to thrive on complaints and stories that cannot be substantiated. I've known Sam for YEARS, and I can tell you that the report written by ALEX is a downright LIE, and he should be sued for libel and slander, and this site as an accomplice after the fact.
Big Sam Movers at the phone number cited in the complaint, is one of the most reputable comanies in the business. Sam does everything humany possible to please, but some people just can't be pleased no matter what you do. ALEX, SHAPE UP - Someday you'll catch the vein of someone who will "have something for ya'"... if you get my drift.
#1 Consumer Suggestion
Alex, please do your part! Letting them go will obviously hurt a lot of people, both customers and workers.
AUTHOR: Sharon - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, March 22, 2004
Alex, you hold very important information on this company. Please call the following phone number and let the Department of Transportation know all these things! Letting them go will obviously hurt a lot of people, both customers and workers. Do you really want Mr. Basam to get away with this?
1-800-DOT-SAFT (hotline to the FMCSA)
and call the Queens County DA (history of arresting scam movers)www.queensda.org.
Thank you so much for sharing your story!
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