Rogue moving companies have taken advantage of people seeking to move from one home to another for years.
But recently the moving industry itself has started coming to the rescue of consumers.
Don Sanders of Symmes Township, lived for a time in Orlando, Florida.
Back in 2005 he wanted to move from Florida to California.
He found a moving company on the internet, and it picked up his belongings.
DON SANDERS: "Got to Missouri and then called me and said I got your furniture, everything went fine but its going to cost you $6100 now. Well the original quote was $3600."
He called the main office of the company '"You Save on Moving" but got nowhere.
SANDERS: "He says well you either have to pay up or we're going to sell your furniture so naturally I went into panic mode."
The U.S. Department of Transportation said what's being done is illegal.
SANDERS: "If they quote you a price and its wrong they have to release your furniture for 110 percent of the quoted price."
The movers refused to do that and kept his goods including his t-v, furniture and boxes of family photos ~ for a year and a half.
Finally, he contacted Move Rescue ~ an organization set up by the moving industry itself, and it got his items back.
So after battling for a year and a half Sanders finally got all his furniture back here -- thanks to the folks at Move Rescue.com and Cincinnati based Planes Moving and Storage which sent a truck all the way out to California, picked it up and delivered it right here to his home in Cincinnati.
SANDERS: "When someone's taken something from you you feel so violated. You've stolen a part of my life and to not lose that. These guys surely came to the rescue. They were like the lone rangers without the masks."
Thanks to Move Rescue, Sanders only had to pay $3900 for his items ~ not the more than $12,000 the rogue company demanded.
Move Rescue says its here to help if you think you've been the victim of a rogue mover. There is a link at the top of this page.
