Soda City Movers

Run. Don't walk. Away from Soda City.

Summer is a time for people to transition from home to home and if you are asked for recommendations about movers in the Midlands area, tell them to steer clear of this outfit. Soda City offered me $700 to not write this review, likely because they knew the amount of damage they caused to my belongings far exceeded what they were offering me to go away. Had I accepted their meager offer, I would have had to agree to not post details about my experience to social media.

I don't need the money, but you need to know that you shouldn't do business with them. Not only did I find them to be unsympathetic and combative. I also learned that they were recording all of our conversations without my consent. They'd tell you that it's legal to do this in SC under "one party consent laws" but just because you can doesn't mean you should. At a minimum they should inform their customers that they are doing this. It just made me all the more mad, highlighting how distrustful and sneaky are. They also had a system where they expected me to tip and pay their workers at the end of every day--like I'm gonna run off with my stuff that they hadn't even finished putting on the truck. I now realize this is because they wanted to get their money and tips before I figured out how horrible they were going to end up being.

You'd think that moving the contents of my 2800 sqft home 150 miles away, wouldn't be so hard, but they did such a poor job packing and loading my furniture on their truck that I ended up with substantial damage to include: they leaned mattresses up against a family heirloom that resulted in breaking the plaster detail of a framed family heirloom. The pedestal of a table had 3 of four legs broken off. They broke a leg of my dining room table, gouged a leaf in the table, and damaged 6 out of dining chairs. The bar stools for my kitchen were also denuded on the back sides--evidence of poor packing, wrapping and securing of our stuff to keep the truck vibration and movement from incurring any damage. I paid for the extra insurance and I'm glad I did, but they have yet to make me whole. They refused to pay for the artwork they damaged. Then they had a repair guy come to my home and he did a good job. But he took the pedestal table base with him back to Columbia. I have yet to get that back and it's been over 3 months. Soda City says they'll get around to returning it to me, but I have yet to receive any indication of when that will be.