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William (81.182.217.180) -

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Reply #1 Viviane Andermatt (89.132.218.233) -

CESC Office opening - Central European Services Centre-in Budapest with multilanguage services.

CESC (Central European Services Center) has the pleasure of informing you of its office opening in the heart of Budapest with services in english and other european languages.

CESC offers a wide range of services for expatriates. We have a wide range of services from relocation to dayly life assistance. To work with CESC is to count on a company that works with swiss quality which we offer. We also have a multilingual proffesional staff : spanish, english, french, german and hungarian.

Among our services CESC offers the following:

• Company and employee needs analysis

• Legal procedures and paperwork necessary for relocation

• Pre assignment tour

• Accommodation search assistance

• Moving process coordination

• Negotiation of rent contract

• Property management

• Bank account opening

• Supply information

• Search of schools and kinder gardens

• Car rent/buy Advisory

• Help searching for house keepers

• Health insurance and health services

• Day by day: shopping, transport, sports, recreation, religion…

• Private Hungarian language lessons

• Cultural training

• Social clubs for expatriates

• Etc.

Contact us now! We will be pleased to serve you and offer you the best solution.

+36 1 270 9628

+36 30 422 0424

Viviane Andermatt

Reply #2 dougnac (81.253.58.94) -

Hello,

My family and I, have spent 1 year in Budapest hungary from January to september 2008 and I would like to share my very bad and poor experience concerning the mooving that i have done recently. The purpose of this message is to avoid to other peoples to be catch by this kind of problems that occur to me and is not acceptable when we contract a professional.

We have decided to contract the moving company "Move One Relocations" from a selection of 6 international movers. Some of their staff speack perfectly French, and this point was one of the reason to contract them as we do not speak magyar but French. Our contact from Move One was very kind with us and seems to be very professional.

Once we have paid the invoice (we had to pay the full amount as it was a directive to proceed to the moving) we start to collect serial disaster. … 8 hours waiting for the delivery without anyone able to inform us of the situation; we have also discovered that the company has change the truck; instead of doing the delivery in the same truck used at the loading activity, at the arrival, another truck was there, a 40 tn for only 45 m3….. In fact, we have discovered that Move one has decided on his way to make one transport for several customers, reason of the change of truck. The result was that Move one did not check if this kind of huge 40 tn truck would be able to deliver in the small streets in French…. Finally, we had no other choice to unload the furniture and organized another loading in a proper small 45 m3 truck so that the delivery would be possible. This activity had to be organised, managed and paid by myself.

But the worst, is that move one denied to use his insurance when we have discovered and registered damages to some elements. Of course those damages have been notified and confirmed by the driver of the truck before any unloading activity. Nevertheless, Move one maintain his position and do not recognise the damage. We can clearly said that we have been abused by this company, with broken elements, without any possibility to make pressure as we've paid the full amount…. Their reply is now arrogant, and unhonest, nothing to see with the kind professional, that we met in Budapest. We are expatriate since 10 years, this was our fifth moving and we've never been in such unprofessional movers and unfair. I imagine that lots of people that will read this note might be in the same configuration as us, moving regularly and we know how precious it is to find the good service that we paid for.

That is the reason of this mail and please feel free to diffuse and to warn who is moving regularly.

If you want more informations you can write me at adougnac@gmail.com

Regards.

Bonjour,

Ma famille et moi sommes restés à Budapest, en Hongrie, de janvier a septembre 2008 et je souhaite faire partager ma malheureuse expérience concernant mon déménagement à un maximum de personnes et cela dans le but d'éviter quelques déconvenues aux futurs....

Nous avons choisi de déménager avec la société "Move One Relocations" parmis 6 autres déménageurs internationaux. Certains membres de leur staff parlant français cela nous a facilité la tâche car nous sommes Francais. Notre interlocuteur français était d'ailleurs charmant et a tout orchestré en bon professionnel, du moins apparemment...

Une fois le règlement effectué (dans sa totalité selon les exigences de cette entreprise) et le chargement parti nous avons accumulé les catastrophes... retard de 8h pour l'arrivée du camion (passe encore...); A notre grande surprise on nous a envoyé un semi remorque (notre déménagement n'était que de 45m3 mais ils l'avaient "groupé") qui ne rentrait pas dans notre rue, ils n'avaient pas vérifié l'accessibilité (passons encore la dessus même si nous avons du louer un camion sur place à nos frais pour accéder à notre domicile!).

Mais le plus grave: ils refusent de faire marcher leur assurance pour des meubles dont la casse a été constatée dans leur camion, avant déchargement, signalée sur le bordereau de réception et confirmé par le chauffeur. Nous avons réellement été arnaqués, nos meubles cassés et nous sommes sans recours puisque nous avons tout payé....Leur discours est maintenant arrogant et mal honnête, rien à voir avec les professionnels charmants que nous avions rencontrés à Budapest. Nous sommes expatriés depuis 10 ans, c'est notre 5ème déménagement et nous n'avions jamais vu cela. Beaucoup de lecteurs intéressés par cet article doivent vivre au même "rythme" que nous et ne souhaitons pareille chose à personne, c'est pourquoi je voulais partager mon témoignage que vous êtes libre de le diffuser.

Si vous souhaitez de plus amples informations, vous pouvez m'écrire à adougnac@gmail.com.

Cordialement,

Alexandre Dougnac.-

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