Allied Pickfords

We booked allied to do our interstate move from Sydney to Gold Coast despite the over $6000 price. We did this due to their apparent professionalism, the promise of a move coordinator and the fact that they offered an ‘essentials’ delivery package to our temporary accommodation while we were waiting for the keys to our new house. We also paid an extra $500 in order to schedule a Saturday delivery to give us time over a long weekend to unpack the house before starting work.
They disappointed us in the following ways:
Leaving a full drawer full of pots and pans and ironing board in the apartment we were moving out of which we then had to arrange collection of the following day
Not treating our essentials package in any way different than other items in the move
The ‘move coordinator’ failing to respond to our emails or phone calls and not updating us about the move process
When we proactively checked what time the movers would be arriving with our things for our contractually agreed move in date we were sent a poorly worded three line email saying that they would be unable to move us in until 6 days later and inquiring as to if this was ok - leaving us without accomodation or belongings as we were due to check out of our temporary accomodation the day of the move in
Obviously this was not ok, and the co-ordinator then failed to ever communicate with us again, despite multiple phone calls and emails
Through tracking down the local franchises phone number we were eventually able to move that date forward so it was only 4 days later.
We were transferred to the move co-ordinators supervisor who asked us to wait till they had completed an internal analysis of what went wrong before talking about any compensation.
This time came and went, with multiple emails and phone calls again ignored we set a deadline for filing a ACCC complaint and civil claim. This time went past as well without any communications so both were prepared and filed.
After eventually agreeing to move us in 4 days after the initial date, the movers chipped our brand new stairs (huge chunk taken out) and dented the new walls
Eventually more than 2 weeks later, one of the local affiliates managers escalated our issue to the VP of APAC who apologized and agreed to refund the extra $500 we had paid for a planned Saturday move in day (ended up being the Wednesday) and the price of our additional accommodation.
We did eventually (6 weeks after the move) get this money refunded and the damage to the stairs and wall were repaired 2 weeks after the move in date.
The litany of failures in this process was astounding for a company which prides themselves on being able to deliver intercontinental moves. While of course mistakes will happen its more important how you deal with them. In this case, it seemed the default was to avoid and hope it went away.Overall this was a horrendously dissapointing experience. In no way would we ever recommend allied to anyone else nor would we use them again.

It’s ok to use a coordinator that was provided but the best thing was the driver stayed in contact with us and was sp honest and helpful. Was so smooth, no frustration at all.

Missing items . No updates unless you ring them. Very nice to start but when complaining about missing items they were very rude. My friends shipment had to be taken to storage before she found a permanent address and before they could be unpacked. The boxes had to be signed for at this stage . They claim they should have been unpacked while in storage and checked which is ridiculous as they had to be moved again. Because they weren't unpacked in storage and the boxes were signed for, they say she can't make an insurance claim. Very angry and disappointed. they finally gave her the name of the insurance company they use but didn't know their address. Very unprofessional. She doesn't have email but I have been the email contact .

The people I have interacted with at Allied Pickford were all personable and professional. They answered questions in a timely fashion, helped me through the customs process and on the day of packing and loading of the truck they were super quick but still took care.

They are so bad at their jobs, it makes me angry they are somehow the main shipping coming in Aus. I've had the unfortunate experience of using them four times.
They do not do their basic jobs. They're the worst communicators. Not only do they not provide updates they don't reply to emails. They lose forms you've already sent and filled in. They ignore your shipping until you contact them asking what's going on.
We also used their packing service and they wrapped one bottle of nail varnish into a ft worth of wrapping. Meaning in the end there were THREE times the amount of boxes then there should have been.
Con artists!
They also didn't pack what was asked and left valuable items behind that were not able to be recovered.
How they're still in business is beyond me. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Absolutely so so disappointed, never fulfilled their promise in terms of times, service, actually nothing was done with any professionalism whatsoever. Would not recommend them to anyone who has self respect or standards they wish to be upheld

Excelent communication
Perfect timing
Careful packing

Hassle free, quick, organised, everything you could ask for and more. The team arrived as agreed, were very fast and professional.

The office staff in Brisbane were rude, lazy and in my opinion bitchy. I constantly had to call them about what was happening and her excuse was she was too busy and got a hundred emails a day and didn't have time to check every single email. Considering she was our consultant and we were supposed to be moving in 10 days I would have thought we would be on her radar. Her lack of communication was unprofessional. Of course when I asked to speak to a manager I was in the wrong. She said I made her cry. Get a job where you can cope!

It appeared to us that the sending and receiving ends of the mover did not communicate as well as w would have expected, and we found ourselves being the intermediary

The packing was shocking either items were over wrapped and packed,ie two to three items in a box mainly full of paper and my paintings were just covered in to layers of card board with more than one painting in eash pack with nothing between them,soa few paints got scratched they used to have special boxes for paintings.My antique table either handled or stored roughly as all the legs were almost falling off, cost $300 to get repaired our tv stand was squashed the timber shattered totally broken.look I could go on!!!!! Sadly we could not claim insurance as we had our possessions in storage until we bought our home in NZ and the time frame 90 days had expired.

They were efficient

Very helpful from planning to actual moving.

workable team that everyone seemed to know what was happening

Outstanding service and communication in Sydney, and even better if possible in Thailand. Couldn't have been more cooperative and helpful. Everything arrived on time and in good condition.

excellent service from lovely people

Arrived at specified time. The team were friendly. Professional at their job, and quick.

Most helpful and prompt service

Good service

So far so good. I have not received my shipment so cannot give a true rating. For now, just 8.

Everything ran smoothly on the Sydney end. Great blokes who genuinely cared about our belongings.

No problems. W ent out of their way to fit our move into busy Xmas period

Allied said they would deliver my 12 tea boxes in 6 to 8 weeks. Ended up being 16 weeks.
They said that my boxes waited in storage until they could fill a shipping container.

Still in transit. I cant give a full rating until the belongings arrive

They just made us feel very special and nothing was a problem. The guys that packed our furniture were amazing and treated our furniture with good care. They were wonderful when our house sold very quickly and had organised our pick up in 1 day...amazing.

truley a no1 service

Our shipment is still in progress. Communication was good, packing was fast and professional. We're able to track our shipment.

We are still in the process of moving, but so far so good

Hazzel free.
Kept very informed

Very quick to respond with quote, and all other queries were replied back straight away answer every helpful and professional

From the first quote to the delivery of all my goods everything went very smoothy.
Also because they recommended a company to transfer my money overseas I saved enough by not using the normal banking system to pay for most of the move.

really pleasant to deal with and good work ethic treated furniture as if it was there own

Honesty when speaking to him and knew what he was talking about, great assett to his company
Branch manager of devonport

The move so far has gone off without a problem. Only thing I was disappointed in, is that we weren't notified till after our shipment had left the country. They were supposed to let us know when the ship was leaving Fremantle, but we've been able to work around it.

Very accessible and helpful staff

So far so good. Shipment is currently in Customs pending our documentation but it's been smooth sailing so far.

Very satisfied with the whole process, which was speedy and with no issues.

They packed very effeciently and the guy who gave the estimate was also very efficient

Good service so far

Still waiting on them to send me paper work to fill in currently all our gear is still at the house in Australia unmoved, very slow hopeless service.

I would use them again in a heartbeat. I could contact them at anytime and got my answer very quickly. Price was very good, the people who packet our belongings where great.

Very professional crew. They took really care.
I liked the international wrapping very much indeed.
It's really thick and protecting items very much.

The y were efficatent and cost effective

They were very motivated and very informative and helpful.
The team at Katherine were great.

Please pass my gratification to them.