Sourdough Transfer — Moving Company in Anchorage

ALL reviews about Sourdough Transfer

• Jocelyn

  Added 2014.12.28

  Wonderful company to work with! Both times we've moved with them, the crew handling our items has been beyond professional, helpful, and gone out of the way to make things easy. All items were well packed and handled - not a single thing lost or damaged, even on a move up from the Lower 48. I even had one of the moving crew stop me at work to ask how our new house was and if we were settling in alright. Overall an amazing company to work with and highly recommended! This was about a $500 moving job, but they broke $6,000 of my stuff. Hardly a great deal. Destroyed my antique barber chair, destroyed my climazon, damaged a chair. The climazon was behind the door and when they got ready to close the doors they discovered it there so the kid they had helping them picked it up and threw it onto the truck over the wall of my furniture utterly destroying it. They did attempt a lame repair job on the nickel plated cast iron sides of the chair which was broken in two places but of course the weld on cast iron didn't hold and it was caveman looking craftsmanship. My family and I relocated from Anchorage to Vancouver, WA in June 2017. Knowing the move was coming up, I went online early, all the way back in August of 2016, to research moving options. Sourdough Transfer was one of the many companies I contacted to get an idea of what the cost would be. I found some companies that looked like they would be less expensive, but honestly the reviews of nightmare experiences some people experienced with the various companies were quite disturbing. As I spent time here and there over the passing months, only ONE company stood out as having consistently positive reviews: Sourdough Transfer. I could not find a single seriously negative experience or review posted anywhere. So when it was time to get serious about making moving arrangements, I contacted only Sourdough Transfer. I first spoke with Karen Conover, and she connected me with Jane Russell who arranged to come out to perform an onsite moving consultation and prepare a moving quote. Every single contact I had with Jane, from that first appointment through eventual follow ups at the end of the experience, was friendly, helpful, supportive, and reassuring. She made commitments on behalf of Sourdough Transfer to meet our moving needs, and she saw to it that these commitments were carried through. The moving crew in Anchorage came by on the assigned days and boxed, loaded, and crated our goods just as promised. These gentlemen were friendly and professionally, and did what it took to get the job done well. When Jane called with the actual cost for our move (based on weight), it was somewhat higher than the quoted estimate, but still reasonably within range, no shocking difference. We were given a 4-6 week window to expect delivery of our goods in Vancouver, and our goods arrived on the final day of week 6. Sure, we would have loved to see our items arrive faster, but again, Sourdough Transfer fulfilled their commitment; our goods were not late. The local crew here in Vancouver was another great group of movers, who swiftly and professionally uncrated and delivered our furniture and MANY boxes to exactly where I asked in the house, without causing any damage to our new home. We were pleased to see very little shipping damage to our furnishings, nothing worth filing any claim over, and far less damage than experienced through any previous move (and I’ve moved many times over the years). We would and will recommend Sourdough Transfer to anyone we know in a heartbeat. Thanks for helping make our move as simple as it possibly could have been! Helped our family move across town -- turned out to be quick, clean, and very professional. No breakage, no delays, no price surprises. They made a stressful day a lot easier for the whole family. 10/10, would hire again. It's where I work at.