Don't hire Pete's Ultimate Movers unless you want to spend hundreds of dollars on learning how to get scammed or scam other people.
The worst part is that the owner Petersonn Suffrena Sr. (Pete Suffrena) concocts his ploy from the beginning of the sales cycle. He lies about their services and pricing to get you to commit, and then he upcharges you on the day of the move with random stuff and changes the terms.
He even lies in person and says he is not Pete and has a different name. C'mon bro... this is the 21st century. Try something new. I've got all your pictures and records pulled up on the Internet.
Pete Suffrena is a smart man though. Scammers tend to be highly intelligent. Why else would I fall for such a trick? He tries to document everything via text and email, and sends all customers a contract to sign up front.
I don't even know where to begin with this fraudulent company that operates as "movers."
First, the company changed the scheduled moving day on me. They were not flexible at all. I had to scramble like crazy to accommodate them. They were extremely pushy via text and on the phone. See attached photo. A friend of mine whom hired Pete's Ultimate Moving told me owner Pete Suffrena really hopes that you can't make the new day so they can charge you the deposit without doing any work.
I paid these guys for six hours. They slacked off in their truck while my mother-in-law and I did the packing and heavy work.
On top of that, one of the workers took a nasty sh*t in our bathroom, and it stunk up our entire apartment. He didn't bother to flush the toilet. My mother-in-law almost passed out because of the putrid smell. I tried to take a picture of his crap, but I couldn't open my eyes because the smell was so bad. I had to flush the toilet immediately. The worst part is that, since we were moving, all the cleaning supplies and air fresheners were packed up and gone. This was truly a s**+**y moving experience!
Then, Pete's Ultimate Movers and their head honcho Peter Suffrena showed up 15 minutes late to the destination because they took the wrong route.
They promised me they'd unpack, assemble and reassemble everything we had in boxes (including new ones that had never been opened), and pretty much do anything moving or unpacking related during the six hours I retained them.
Instead, they refused to work, did a horrible job reassembling one of our beds, joked around in their language (I think Haitian Creole - I know French and could understand some sentences of them making fun of my mother-in-law and wife), opened up our new furniture and spread it all around our living room without assembling it, and the worst part: they quietly got into their big truck, and drove off 1 1/2 hours early with no notice or anything. They didn't say they were done. They didn't thank us. They snuck out of our home and scrammed - or should I say scammed? They took around $200 in extra CASH from us.
Had Pete Suffrena been a man, he would've made me sign something or asked for some feedback before leaving. He would been fair and said he wanted to leave early, so he would've given me back some cash. I'm looking forward to reporting him and his company to my buddies in City Hall and Hillsborough County.
I applaud Pete Suffrena for his business savvy. He's good... very good.
I recommend any clients of Pete's Ultimate Movers take pictures and videos of this crew while they're "working." Record your phone conversations with them, and screen capture their texts.
Buyer beware! There are so many better and cheaper moving companies out there. Pete's Ultimate Movers is not one of them.
My hard earned money is lost forever!