Dirt Cheap Mover

All Around Dishonesty.

I’m finally ready (after a few months) to write this review.  i’ve been so livid at steve niedziela, the i-won’t-shut-the-heck-up-because-i-just-can’t-get-enough-of-my-own-b.s. owner, that I haven’t been able to write this without an abundance of words I don’t say in everyday conversation.   we met steve-the-non-stop-sh@@-talker when someone else sent him to check out moving something from my house to another person’s house that they were going to purchase.  it was a very large and involved piece of furniture.  he ended up not moving it, though told us about his company (we were moving a couple of months later) so we looked him up and (including the gargantuan piece of furniture) he gave us a price.   we agreed to the price, though ended up selling the piece of furniture (which made up about 1/3 of the total move price) and then agreed with him to pay the entire fee anyway with the understanding that he would use the remaining 1/3 for the tips for his movers. he unequivocally agreed, though, as other reviewer’s will attest, he was bold-faced lying.   he then proceeded to call, email and text us a total of 9 times prior to the move to “make sure” I was going to move.  of course I was! (see? he can’t hear enough of himself)   we agreed on a date and 8 am time.  ANOTHER person (the foreman for our move) called AGAIN the night before to confirm.  yes, and we’re getting irritated with the confirmations. the foreman said he was sorry and that he’d heard that more than a few times before.   the next day (move day) no one showed up.  we finally got a text at 845 from the foreman saying something about the truck they were going to use being stolen.   at 1030 steve texted saying something asinine blaming penske for the mix up.  he then CALLED and asked if i’d gotten the text and demanded that I read it out loud to him, like I was in kindergarten.  the guy has ZERO respect for anyone, but we had no choice at this point.  it was the end of the month and someone else was moving in the next day.   the guys (minus steve, thankfully, as even my super patient husband was getting angry at him) finally showed up after noon and were fabulous, though at the end of the move, I pulled the foreman aside and ask if he knew of the deal with steve that they would be getting 1/3 of the price in tip.  the foreman looked shocked and said no, so I called steve and asked him what was going on.  he said it was an “oops” and he would resend the contract with the “corrected” lower price (original prices minus 1/3) asap via email to the foreman and agreed that the difference I could pay in cash to the workers. we got exact change and paid steve’s portion, then split the remaining 1/3 amongst the workers because we knew something was fishy and they wouldn’t see it if we paid it in full to steve. they left.   steve then called me and demanded that I send ALL of the money directly to HIM for “tax purposes.” I reminded “mister honesty” that it was all in cash, as he wished (specifically i’m sure to AVOID taxes) and that I knew he wasn’t going to claim it.  what was the point of sending it to him? so he could take a picture of it and send that to the irs? I don’t think so.  he even sent his guys back to our house to talk on speakerphone because he told them he didn’t make that agreement with us and said the workers were lying!   HE was the one lying. his objective was to keep all of the cash himself and stiff his workers.  after the phone call, the workers admitted that steve had stiffed several other workers in the company on multiple occasions before!   I would NEVER deal with this guy again and will do whatever I can to make sure everyone knows that he’s an absolute sheister.   bottom line – he lies, he cheats and he steals from the people he hires to make him look good.   they do make him look like a legit business, so I hope they find work elsewhere.  I couldn’t imagine working for or being around this “business man”   btw he’s also a licensed notary, so beware; notaries are supposed to be honest to the core - this guy isn’t.    .