Shocking experience
I have used Budapack twice to ship consignments from Hungary to the UK. The first experience was fine. The second was TERRIBLE, causing us enormous stress and costing us many hundreds of pounds of losses.
At the start of the pickup day, we told the moving team to speak with us if the truck was getting full, so that we could prioritize what to load, with the intention to give away anything non-essential that wouldn’t fit in the truck, to local friends. The movers did not do this, and by the end of the day we were left with piles of stuff we didn’t need on the truck, piles of stuff we did need still in boxes in our courtyard, and things split between the truck and the courtyard with no coordination at all. We had our wardrobes on the truck, but not the doors of them, half our dining chairs and office chairs on the truck and half off, our son’s bed on, but his mattress and bedding off, and so on and so on. The movers apologized, blaming it on how hot the day had been, and assured us sincerely that everything would be sorted out. They took our remaining stuff to the warehouse to be sent on later.
Unfortunately, once we started dealing with the head office staff, the situation completely changed. Once they had our stuff in their warehouse, it was like their attitude was to charge us as much as they could get away with, despite knowing exactly how the situation had arisen from their colleagues' mistakes. They tried to charge us for an additional half truckload, and even when we demonstrated to them that the remaining stuff filled less than a third of a truck they responded that they would charge us for half a truck anyway because “this is my right“ - a literal quote from their email. When we arranged shipping with another provider for a much lower price, Budapack then refused to release our property to the other company unless we paid them an absurdly inflated invoice for a string of charges that they seem to invent on the spot. They only backed down 12 hours before pick up was scheduled, when our correspondence to them became legal in tone.
An absolutely shocking lack of integrity and basic human decency, from a company that purports to be the most reputable shipper in Hungary.
12 augustus 2024
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