Hi, Steven.
I am sorry that you interpreted our responses to you as gaslighting. I assure you that our communications were sincere.
Regarding our “contradictory stories”, they are not wild or contradictory at all and I can assure you that the three people who communicated with you from our company are not all lying while we can’t get our story straight. There is no way we could have built our business and our reputation if we lied to people and we couldn’t keep the same staff with zero turnover for year after year if we did that.
Everyone did our best to communicate what we knew when we knew it. Why? Because we believe our clients have a right to know what is happening with their shipment. Your shipment getting inspected on the road is extremely unusual, but it does happen in Mexico, and there is nothing anybody can do about it. Everyone (the driver, the customs broker, our staff) gets a bit nervous when it happens because we don’t want there to be any problems, for everyone’s sake, including yours.
What we know is that your shipment was stopped on the road and your shipment was gone through in a rough way. As far as who did it, no one had ever heard of them, so at first, your personal assistant just stated that they were some entity that would be the most likely. “No issues” meant that the truck was allowed to continue. Could your assistant have been more specific? Yes, she could have, but the driver was a bit rattled and didn’t have the details; he just wanted to leave. Did it mean that the driver inspected your shipment after the inspection on the road? No, it did not, because for all sorts of reasons, when the inspection is done, the driver continues on immediately.
Were the ones doing the inspection “hoodied”? Yes, they were. I offered to show you what I believe is a time stamped video of them breaking the seal on your truck, but you did not take me up on my offer to send it to you. We still have that video. I don’t know why you didn’t want to see it. Just like I offered before, I can send it to you now, if you like.
We offered in every way we know how to help you. I am sorry that you interpreted what you call our “empathy” as fake. I assure you, it was not. Not from any of us. When something happens to our clients’ shipment, for any reason, within our control or not, we feel it. Do I mean that what we feel is the same as what you feel? Of course not, but we are very upset when something like this happens, because we are all on the same team and we all want our clients to know how we feel and to be happy.
I am sorry but neither we, nor anybody, can control if a truck is stopped and gone through in Mexico. In our almost 1,000 moves, this has happened about five times. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. And when it happens, because the driver leaves immediately afterward and your shipment was to be delivered only hours later, we were trying to tell you what we knew or suspected at the time with what we knew at the time.
This was all done in good faith, but you weren’t interested in knowing this.
We are even at this point, willing to help you, to go above and beyond what is required in any even remotely reasonable way, just like we stated before, several times. Nothing has changed. You never even allowed us to start the process by filing an insurance claim. I don’t know why not. You have 45 days from the date of delivery to file it, so I believe you still have time. After you’ve filed your claim, we’ll look at the rest. That’s what we offered before but you rejected it at the time.
I will direct Andy to accept your call and to help, just like before. That is our obligation and we will do it, even after you wrote what you did. Please let him or me know if you are willing at this time to accept our help and at a minimum, just to get started, to start the claim. You’re entitled to do so, and we are still willing to help, just like before.