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Where our numbers come from

Each listing’s score and review count were read off that mover’s public Google Maps profile on the day we compiled the directory. We don’t collect reviews ourselves, we don’t host a review form, and we don’t let anyone pay to change a position. There is no ranking algorithm here beyond “most reviews first”.

Of the 64 movers we list, 50 carry Google reviewsand 14 carry none at all. Both appear in the same lists, styled the same way, because hiding the second group would make the first look more thoroughly vetted than it is.

What a rating actually tells you

• Review count beats star score. A 4.6 from 4,637 reviews and a 5.0 from three are not the same claim. We sort by count first for that reason.
• A high score is evidence of consistency, not of a good move. It tells you most jobs went acceptably. It tells you nothing about how they handle the one that doesn’t.
• Read the one- and two-star reviews on Google itself. The pattern in the complaints — late arrivals, damage claims, quotes that grew on the day — is the useful signal. A number can’t carry that.
• Reviews age. A company with a great score built four years ago may have different crews now.

What “no reviews yet” means

It means nobody has left a public Google review. Nothing more. It is common for smaller outfits, for newer registrations, and for companies whose work comes by word of mouth or from property agents rather than search. Treat it as an absence of information, not as a warning — then do the due diligence the reviews would have done for you: ask for a written quote, ask how long they’ve been operating, and ask for a reference from a recent job.

A five-minute comparison that works

1. Open your city page and pick three movers, not one.
2. Call each with the same inventory list. Same words, same items — otherwise you are not comparing prices, you are comparing descriptions.
3. Ask each of them: what is excluded, what happens if it takes longer than expected, and what the cover is if something breaks.
4. Get all three in writing, by WhatsApp or email. A verbal quote is a guess.
5. Then read their Google reviews — particularly the bad ones — with the quotes already in front of you.

The cheapest of three is usually cheap for a reason you can identify in that call. The point of ringing three is to find out what that reason is.