Book and Move

Book

While I have yet to see actual sales figure, I am guessing that my book is selling well.
It hangs in the Amazon Top Ten Handheld book sales and also in the Bookpool Top Ten Gadget book sales.

Today I received my complimentary author copies which I will be sending to family members. I am also hanging out at the Wrox P2P forum for my book to see if there are any questions or comments relating to it. So, pop by if you have a minute.

Move

The move to our new house was sort of traumatic because we were ripped off by the moving company. A Professional Movers gave me an email quote for $85 per hour and estimated that it would take about 7 hours to move. This is after I repeatedly asked if they didn't want to come to my house and do a more realistic estimate. Nope, they said, we can figure it all out.

The only other extra charge was for packing materials. Since we packed everything but the TV, we figured that the packing materials charge would be low. They had also bumped up the cost to $105 per hour without my knowledge.

Come the day of the move, I signed the packing materials list (how could I refuse at this point - it was move day) and noticed that the items were pricey, but still I thought, how much packing material could be used to pack my TV.

They loaded the truck and before unloading asked me to pay up. The packing material charge was $1,300.00!!!!!! Can you imagine someone spending $1,300.00 on bubble wrap, tape, and boxes? Well they had managed to. I watched them spend 2 hours wrapping up the TV. One guy just wasted as much tape as he could by unrolling a roll of tape right against the TV.

They also took 12 hours to move and had to make 2 trips, even though I stressed that I had a lot of stuff.

They apparently do this all the time because when I confronted the owner, he just shouted at me over the phone and told me that I couldn't do anything about it. I later came to find out that in New Jersey, moving companies are not regulated and so they can pull this kind of thing off without recourse. So, if you are contemplating a move in New Jersey, DO NOT call A Professional Movers unless you want to get the bait and switch.