SNOWBIRDS SWINDLED AND STRANDED!!!

Lola Palmer Submitted this review about AA All Star Discount Auto Transport Inc.
Review made Live: 1/7/2011 3:01:00 PM

BEWARE of this Company - AAA ALL STAR DISCOUNT AUTO TRANSPORTERS- #888-896-2938

December 28, 2010 - Received $399.00 quote to transport my mothers car from Pasadena, MD to The Villages, FL. Carrier was a referral to my mother from a co-worker at the Charity Service where she volunteers. Paul Baldwin is a modern day (Paper Collar Joe) looking for suckers (hard for me to admit but yes, I was one) I'm sharing this with all you so that you might avoid a similar trap.

So, why did I agree to send a "non-refundable" deposit of $199.00? Well, it wasn't because of the "professional" service or outstanding follow-up. They were RUDE, POMPUS- full of themselves- -amazingly over-confident about their ability to deliver the $399.00 deal they're marketing!

They wouldn't commit to a FL delivery date- until I landed in FL. That's when I learned the REAL DEAL. Its simple, if I wanted the car, I'd have to agree to pay the driver another $600.00 CASH in addition to what I'd already paid. Paul explained its SNOWBIRD SEASON was I crazy, they're hundreds of cars ready to go. This was unacceptable, I wanted my money back- his response was NO - and he hung up the phone. I called back several times to no avail.




Company Response
Lisa from AA All Star Discount Auto Transport Inc. Submitted this response.
Response Date: 1/7/2011 5:17:00 PM
THIS REVIEW COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. If any one got swindled and stranded in this deal it was us!! As soon as we took the order to ship her car from Elizabeth Cochran (not Lola Palmer, we have no record of anyone with that name) who placed this order, we received a list of conditions a mile long, telling us exactly when the car needed to be specifically picked up AND delivered down to the hour of the plane coming in as she wanted to get off the plane and hop in her car. We told her if she wanted us to work around her specifications that would be an considered an expedited platinum order, - she told us to proceed with the order. In a few hours, once we had secured a driver, willing to go through all the hoops and conditions she had put forth, she said NO to the carrier, telling us she had made other arrangements!! We were the ones left swindled and stranded from Elizabeth Cochran who expected us to jump through her hoops and once we secured a carrier she told us, to forget it. When customers make shipping difficult and set up ridiculous demands we can only do so much to try to help them. The reason we were referred to Elizabeth Cochran's mother is because her friend was a very satisfied customer and happy to pass our name and number on as are all our customers. We ship a large volume of cars each and every week to many happy customers and none of them set crazy and unreasonable demands on us or our drivers.