A very bad experience

Marjorie Carl Submitted this review about Agape Auto Transport LLC
Review made Live: 8/8/2010 8:35:00 AM
I had a very bad experience with Agape. Agape called me in April to give me a pickup date for my car, which was to be transported from Florida to Massachusetts. On the scheduled pickup date, I waited all day, without hearing from anyone. Finally at 7 p.m. I called the trucker, who sounded surprised that no one from Agape had called me. He then told me that he had no room left on his truck for my car. Agape was by that time closed, so I was unable to call anyone there.

I called the next day and they said there was a mechanical problem with the truck. Who is one to believe? Agape said they would rescheduled the pickup. I called daily for a new date, but they were unable to reschedule, saying only that they "working on it." Because I had a scheduled flight to Boston, I had to leave my car in Florida, not knowing when or even if it would be picked up. Continuing to trust in Agape to come through with a pickup date would have by then required me to inconvenience a friend or neighbor in Florida to handle things on the pickup date, since I would no longer be there. However, I had no reason to believe, given all that had happened, that I could trust Agape to ever follow through with the pickup, so instead my son-in-law volunteered to fly from New Hampshire to Florida to drive my car back for me.

It took me 30 days to receive my check for a refund, because Agape sent it to my Florida address.

Please do not use this carrier unless you have a lot of time and patience. They are not very dependable.

Company Response
Rebekah A from Agape Auto Transport LLC Submitted this response.
Response Date: 8/13/2010 4:18:00 PM
First thing I would like to mention is Marjorie Carls refund delay was do to her not updating her address with us when she cancelled her order and requested the refund. Mrs Carl gave us a very small window to work with in assigning her vehicle for pickup. We were able to assign it very quickly and meet her expectation however the carrier did have a mechanical breakdown. We apologize for this, but unfortunately in our industry this does happen even to brand new car haulers. We were working very hard to get Mrs Carls vehicle reassigned to another carrier when she scheduled a flight to Boston. We told her that was no problem if she wasn't going to be there she could leave the vehicle with her family member and we could pick it up from them. She said no she didn't want to do that then cancelled. I normally would not mention this but Mrs. Carl was very rude to us most of the time we spoke with her. We did try our very best to please her and make her happy but the circumstances happened that were out of our control that upset her. We did send Mrs Carls refund check to her right away but we did send it to the address we had on file and learned later that she had changed her address and did not forward her mail. About 3 weeks later we received her returned refund check in the mail. We immediately sent the check to her new address in the original envelope mailed back to us so that she knew we did send it and were not being dishonest. Her refund delay was not Agapes fault. It took longer to get to her because we were not informed of the new address when she requested her refund. We are surprised this review was just now being posted because Mrs Carls order with us was back in April of this year. We work very hard to please our customers and make them happy and hope that Mrs Carl will understand we did not mean for her to be unhappy.