Let the movers take all my car seats?

monstah · Dec 22, 2010

We likely wont have room for extra car seats in my car and we are moving out of state. I don't have a clue what I do and don't have the original boxes for. We are using a moving company who is going to do all of our packing and deliver everything 4-6 days later. Do I just give them special instructions for packing the car seats? They are going to think I'm crazy.

They will need to pack and move:

Roundabout 50
Frontier 85 (maybe, sale pending)
MyRide
Coccoro
Scenera
LiteRider

Anyone been there, done that? I have never used a moving company before.

wendytthomas · Dec 22, 2010

Are you having a second car shipped? I installed most of our seats in my husband's car.

Otherwise, I'd just have them pack them in boxes with some padding and that'd be fine. Maybe you can prepack them in your clothes?

Wendy

njkj · Dec 22, 2010

I would not pack them yourself and then let them move them b/c if you pack them and something happens than they are not responsible. Just ask them to pad them however they can and even watch them do it. If something happen they will have to replace them.

monstah · Dec 22, 2010

Maybe I should just sell them now and buy new ones there.

lovemybabies924 · Dec 22, 2010

monstah said:
Maybe I should just sell them now and buy new ones there.

well then your loosing money! i would just leave specific instructions and make sure you your get across that these seats hold your childrens LIVES and they better pack them safely or else!!

Mylilboyblue · Dec 23, 2010

I would let them pack them with your instructions. Like others said if you pack them you aren't covered by their insurance. (Pretty sure of this, but you should check for sure with them about what they will be responsible for)

I am so jealous you are moving out of the armpit of the US.

Kat_Momof3 · Dec 23, 2010

I would pack them YOURSELF... and write FRAGILE in big letters (with permanent marker) on them... Maybe warn them ahead of time that you had some items that were personally important to you that you wouldn't be able to sleep without worrying about them breaking that you had to pack yourself (and if you have them in what are clearly carseat boxes, just say... and I used boxes from our carseats)

If they think they are breakables or family heirlooms, they'll be more careful with them... and you'll know they're packed safely.

That said... I would be fine with them packing the backless booster (not much you can do wrong packing that) or even the scenera (easily replaced if something happened)

It's the pricey ones I'd worry about, just because insurance might try to argue that they are fine if we know they aren't.

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