(OT) Consumer Alert Moving Violations

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http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/consumer/Articles/a2003-08-28-moving_vio.html

 

 

 

 

 

Scam Alert…

Moving Violations By Carole Fleck

September 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moments after they arrived at her new home, the movers Jeannine DiPanni hired to get her household furnishings from Florida to New York dropped the bombshell.

If DiPanni didn't pay $3,800 for a job the movers had estimated would cost just $1,400, they'd drive away with virtually all her belongings.

DiPanni's 55-year-old son, Paul Purpura, paid the bill under protest. "My mother was a physical wreck," he told the AARP Bulletin. "The movers held her belongings hostage, and she would've lost everything she ever had."

Purpura complained to state and federal authorities, but to no avail. "No one could help me," he says. "After six months, I gave up."