Central Ohio mover claims Texas company stiffed him for work
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Some central Ohioans are raising the alarm about a Texas-based moving company, saying they didn't get paid for their work.
Caddy Moving is based in Austin, Texas, but hires people all over the United States for moving jobs, including in Columbus. One man reached out to NBC4 Investigates after, he claims, the company did not pay him; NBC4 found dozens of complaints like his from central Ohio and beyond.
The man who called NBC4 Investigates found a help-wanted ad on Craigslist looking to hire movers. He needed money for his kids.
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A long day of moving is hard enough, but what happened to this man, having to ask for his pay day after day, might be even harder.
'I don't think you should treat people that way,' Bruce Johnson, who did a job with Caddy Moving, said.
Johnson got in touch with Caddy Moving. Texts show an understanding he was to be paid the day of the moving job, May 25, or at least within 24 hours.
'From my understanding that once the job was complete and they speak to the homeowners and then we'll be paid right after,' Johnson said.
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Texts Johnson shared show he worked the job, moving someone into a home in Hilliard, but he did not get paid that day, like he was told.
'They keep saying we're going to pay you, and then I get a text at 1 in the morning saying, 'Hey, we sent you a pay,' then they didn't send the pay,' Johnson said.
Then he got a text saying there was an issue with the payment system.
'Then I find their reviews,' Johnson said.
NBC4 Investigates looked into Caddy Moving and found dozens of complaints just like Johnson's, across Google, the Better Business Bureau and Trust Pilot, a website that hosts reviews of businesses worldwide.
Some read: 'Company is refusing to pay for labor,' 'This company does not pay what they're advertising on their website. After the work is complete and their customer is satisfied, they'll stop responding' and 'Promised that they'd pay me if I removed my Google review, and because I refused to remove it, they're still refusing to pay me.'
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'I just felt bamboozled and just worried I wasn't going to get paid,' Johnson said.
Caddy Moving responded to NBC4 Investigates on June 11.
'We had some issues with Venmo and PayPal recently,' Caddy Moving CEO Zach Richards said. 'We did have a couple of our systems actually get locked up on us and we worked through those with our guys. We actually launched a hotline for guys to reach out to.'
Caddy Moving said that as a startup, it does not have everything figured out yet, but takes accountability for the payment issues. We asked about the reviews across the websites as well.
'As far as the Trustpilot, Yelp, we were not signed up on any of those platforms we don't monitor them so as you could imagine, those that have negative feedback to share they are going to go to those platforms, but we did not sign up on those platform,' Richards said. 'We don't have everything figured out. Of course. But no, we fully take accountability for having delays on payments.'
Richards said those with complaints can reach out to him at zach@caddymoving.com or by calling the help line at 888-788-8542.
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Caddy Moving is based out of Texas and NBC4 Investigates found the attorney general there has also received complaints. Johnson reached out to them and to NBC4 Investigates and finally, two and a half weeks after the job, he was paid the money he was owed, but said he knows others are still waiting.
'I just want to be done with them,' Johnson said. 'I hope they get it together and stop treating people like that.'
Other reviews and those we have heard from are customers saying the company canceled last minute or movers stretched the time of the move and they had to pay more.
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