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This page explains how professional moving companies can sign up to get customers and appointment booking-help from AGMC.
A Great Moving Crew (AGMC) does not hire employees or moving-help contractors. But if you are an individual interested in looking for work with other moving service companies, then you should check out the MOVING HELPERS POSTING link below. Or, here's also link back to the HOME PAGE.
Before deciding to sign up for AGMC's booking help service for independent moving companies, you should check out AGMC's website page EUGENE MOVING COMPANIES (link below) to see what these advertisements look like.
GETTING SIGNED UP
If you would like to sign up your self-owed moving company for receiving appointment booking-help from AGMC, fill out and turn into AGMC the following three documents.
1) Booking-help Contract For Moving Companies
2) Application Form for Moving Companies,
3) W9.
This contract and application form are shown below. You have the option to text to AGMC your email address along with your request for AGMC to email you a Docusign link to these documents. Or, you have the option to pick up a physical copy of these documents from a meeting with AGMC, or you can copy and paste these documents from this web-page and print your own copy of these papers. You'd then need to fill them out and either hand them back to AGMC in person or mail them back to AGMC at:
P.O. Box 147
Walterville OR.
97401
BOOKING HELP CONTRACT FOR MOVING COMPANIES Date: ______________
Name of person considering this contract: ________________________________
1) Open Market Listing And Booking-Help Service
If you (the undersigned, you, your,) sign this contract this will result in you and your (self owned) independent moving company agreeing to receive booking help from A Great Moving Crew (AGMC, we, our, us) according to the terms and conditions in this contract. This booking help would be through AGMC's open market listing and booking help service, which helps shopping customers connect and book appointments with independent moving companies. This listing and booking-help service operates very much like Home Advisor, Angie's List, Priceline, and Movinghelp.com. You define and update your company's services offered, rates, fees, policies, availability schedule and any special instructions you are directing AGMC to follow when helping book appointments for your company.
Initials: ____________
2) Job Descriptions Texted From AGMC Are Job Offers From Customers
If and when your moving company's services are chosen for a job appointment, AGMC will pass along to you the customer's requested job offer information in the form of a text message sent to you through AGMC's phone number describing the customer's desired instructions for the job, job start time, appointment details, and contact information. You could then either accept the customer's offered appointment details as written, you could call the customer to negotiate other appointment details, or you could decline the customer's appointment offer by text. But if you accept a customer's job appointment offer as originally requested, you are confirming that the texted job date, start time, crew size and other details of the offered job fall within the parameters of what you have directed AGMC to try to help arrange for you according to your instructions, or else you agree to decline the job offer or make your own counter offer. These texted job descriptions are what the customer is asking for, an offer, not instructions telling you what to do. This booking service arrangement is for AGMC to be working for you to set up appointments according to your instructions, not vice versa. If you have requested AGMC's help to find some extra helpers for the job, AGMC could also include names of some optional freelancers you could choose to hire as well. You and your company would be responsible for providing the customer your own job estimate. If you have given AGMC sufficient instructions, AGMC could provide the customer some generalities, but it is you and your company that is responsible for providing the customer an actual job estimate. Sooner is better, but this should be done no later than when upon first arriving at an appointment before beginning actual work.
Initials: _________
3) Your Company Would Be Working Directly For The Customer, Not For AGMC
If in a job offer description text from AGMC, your company's name is used, or if your name is used in conjunction with the term "Lead moving company" or "Lead" (for short), and if you reply by text with your indication of acceptance, that would constitute you (and your company) contracting to be "The" moving company that is being hired by the moving customer named in that text (the last name stated in the text), with you and your company taking sole responsibility and liability for all aspects of that moving job, including for damages; choosing, hiring and paying your crew; injuries: collecting the service bill; tickets; thefts; losses, fines, penalties; worker's comp, taxes, and for everything else about that job. You would take sole responsibility for having any needed licensing, certifications and insurance that may be required for any work types you undertake or offer.
Initials: __________
4) AGMC Is An Advertiser & Service Working For You, Not Vice Versa.
For any of these jobs that AGMC helps book for you, AGMC would be acting only as an open market listing and booking help service, and you (and your company) would not be working for AGMC, nor be operating as a partner, subcontractor, agent or employee of AGMC. You agree that this applies regardless of other agency definitions, classifications or anything else, and that you will never represent otherwise. Upon your first contact with your customers you are responsible for double checking with the customer to make sure they understand they are hiring your company and not AGMC, and so if you fail to clarify this with the customer before beginning work, you take full responsibility for a customer misunderstanding this distinction. You declare that your company name is registered with the state, or you take sole responsibility for it not being registered with the state. You are responsible for doing your own withholding and reporting directly to tax authorities, as your own separate business entity. You agree to count AGMC's booking fees as an "advertising expense" for your company, not a 1099 contractor fee.
Initials: __________
5) Movers Working On Your Job sites Would be Working For You, Not For AGMC
You agree that any movers that work on any of your AGMC referred job appointments will be either yourself, your legal employees or freelance independent contractors working for you, with you being solely responsible for their conduct, pay, injuries, worker's comp and unemployment claims. This applies regardless of other agency definitions, classifications or anything else. You agree to make it clear to any movers working on your jobs that they are working for you and your company, not AGMC. To make sure your workers know they are working for you and not AGMC, you agree to have your workers sign and turn into AGMC AGMC's Moving Helper Agreement that is posted on AGMC's website page HELPER POSTING. If AGMC is ever charged for worker's comp, unemployment claims, damages, taxes or ODOT fines for any jobs you have done in the past (without exception), you agree to reimburse AGMC for those charges immediately (and any attorney fees needed to collect them), regardless of any related agency definitions, classifications, findings or anything else.
Initials: ___________
6) AGMC Does Not Cover You If Something Goes Wrong.
We are a neutral venue for the connection between You and the Customer. You do not work for Us or represent Us. You agree that We are not your employer, and you are not being subcontracted to do work for AGMC. You agree that We only operate a website and phone answering service that works for you. We do not provide any endorsement for You or Your Services. You acknowledge and agree that We do not provide the Services and We are not in any way responsible for assisting You in any manner with Your provision of the Services. We cannot and will not guarantee the ability of a Customer to complete payment for any of the provided Services. You acknowledge and agree that any and all communications, correspondence, verbal or written, or any warranties or representations made with regard to the Services you provide are not provided by Us and are specifically and solely between You and the Customer. You agree to release Us from any and all liability associated your jobs. You agree that if the customer does not pay you for your job, it's the customer that owes you, not AGMC, and you will not hold AGMC responsible for job payment or for compensation for the customer cancelling their job appointment, even at the last minute.
Initials: _________
7) Booking Fees
If you sign up for AGMC's "booking service" (which includes AGMC's phone answering and message forwarding service), the booking fee you agree to pay AGMC for this service is $20 per man hour of labor you charge your customer on a job, or $65 total for 2 man 2hr minimum jobs, to be calculated based on a picture of your customer's job invoice you are required to text to AGMC by the end of the day of the job, and is required to be paid by you to AGMC by Venmo no later than by the end of the day of the customer's payment form clearing. If you have no other late payments, any one payment can be postponed by a day without penalty. However, while any invoice pictures or payments are late past this deadline, your company is in breach of contract, in "Bad Standing", and so the booking fee raises to $22 per man hour (including for 2 hr min jobs), and any further booking help from AGMC is agreed may be restricted or ended entirely at AGMC's discretion. If your company has sent your last 10 invoices & booking service fees on time and you don't owe any past booking fees, the booking fee for two man two hr. minimum jobs drops to $55 total. If your company has sent your last 50 invoices & booking service fees on time and you don't owe any past booking fees, the booking fee drops to $17/mhr, or $45 total for a two man two hr. minimum job. All past booking fees (& referral fees) that become over one month late past its due date, incur a $35 late penalty (each), and begin to accrue an interest penalty of 30% APR. If any of your booking fees ever reach being overdue by more than six months, you agree to pay all court and arbitration costs needed to collect all your past due booking fees, plus you agree to pay AGMC $35/hr for AGMC's time spent on the collections process.
Initials: __________
8) Listing Order Determination and Job Offer Frequency
You agree AGMC has the right to use its merit based point scoring system (more thoroughly described on AGMC's website page LISTING ORDER DETERMINATION), to determine the listing order that moving companies are listed and presented to customers, which is a prime factor in the frequency of job offers you might get through AGMC's service. However, this is an advertising and "shopping platform" for your independent business, like Craig's List, Angie's List, Movinghelp.com and ads in a magazine for your business, NOT a job working for AGMC. There are no guaranteed result from advertising and getting booking help with AGMC, and in fact, AGMC is telling you specifically that only the top few ranked companies are likely to get any kind of semi regular customer job offers thru AGMC, with lower listed companies likely to get few, rare, or sporadic job offers, if even that. There is no "job security" because this platform is NOT a job, AGMC is not hiring you, and this is not remotely any kind of guaranteed work source. The greatest frequency and regularity of job offers you might achieve is by you making your service so good and reliable (in other people's opinions) that most shoppers want to select your services. There are so many other moving companies for shoppers to choose from that if you do poorly or mess up on too many of your jobs you can pretty much expect that any job offer regularity you might have experienced temporarily will likely dry up rapidly. This could result in a job offer frequency for you that could range from lots of job offers to no job offers at all, or it could vary quickly or end abruptly, so you agree that you would never be "owed" any job offers beyond whatever job offers you get, and you will not ask for jobs beyond what you get.
Also, if you violate any of these contractual agreements (are in breach of contract), or if you are repeatedly delinquent in paying your booking fees, any further booking help from AGMC can be (and should be expected to be) restricted or cease entirely at AGMC's discretion, regardless of your company's listing order. That means, if you do these things, AGMC may (and likely will) ignore the listing order for your company. Also, AGMC reserves the right to restrict or decline to provide booking-help services to you based on only AGMC's perception or suspicion of wrongdoings on your part, if those wrongdoings are significant enough, and if witnesses are believable enough, in AGMC's opinion. This is to say that, for safety reasons, AGMC may err on the side of caution to decline you booking-help services based on AGMC's opinion alone. For these and other reasons, you agree to not rely on AGMC's platform as your company's sole source of customers. AGMC will never "owe" you jobs or customer referrals.
Initials: ________
9) Modification of Agreement, and your express consent by continuing to accept job offers 30 days after receipt of the modified-agreement email.
We may modify this Agreement by emailing a copy of the modified Agreement to you at your provided email address. The previous Agreement version remains in effect for 30 days after the modified Agreement was emailed to you, and booking help will continue for those next 30 days according to the previous Agreement. However, You agree that Your continued participation in accepting new job offers sent to you after the 30th day beyond receipt of a modified-agreement email constitutes Your express consent and agreement to the new Modified Agreement and all of its terms and conditions. This Agreement shall not be modified, amended, and/or changed in any manner by You outside of these documented Agreements.
Initials: __________
10) Severability.
If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court or Arbiter, such provision shall be severed from this Agreement and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. The parties agree that any such invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid, legal, and enforceable while preserving as much as possible of the original intent of the words. Also, section contents are not limited to the general meaning of section titles.
Initials: _________
11) Confidentiality and Non-slander Agreement
In order to protect the confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information of the parties, AGMC and You agree to enter into a confidentiality (NDA) agreement. You agree that whatever disagreements, issues or claims that might arise between you and AGMC, you agree to try to resolve those issues only directly with each other or through the Arbitration process described below, and specifically not use any public media or public agency to air grievances or try to threaten or harm each other financially or via reputation. This includes you agreeing to not write bad online or public media reviews about AGMC, you contacting governmental agencies to try to get AGMC in trouble with those agencies (other than the Arbitration or court related agencies), or you prompting other people to do either of these. An exception is that AGMC is allowed to review and give an opinion of your company on AGMC's website. You agree that if a judge or Arbiter deems you or AGMC to have violated this agreement, the penalty would be a $1,000 fine per instance, plus full compensation for any losses experienced from those violation contacts, plus court costs in collecting this penalty.
Initials: ___________
12) Arbitration Agreement
You agree that any and all Claims between You and AGMC shall be submitted only to binding arbitration, to be resolved by one (1) arbitrator (the “Arbitrator”) through final and binding arbitration on an individual basis only and not by court or jury trial, or by class collective, or representative action. An exception is that AGMC may follow any court actions in a collections process if you ever become more than six months behind in paying booking fees. The arbitration shall be administered by Judicial Arbitration & Mediation Services (“JAMS”) in accordance with this Arbitration Agreement and the JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures (https://www.jamsadr.com). Any other arbitration particulars that the parties can not agree upon shall be determined by the arbitration agreement explained on the website for Movinghelp.com. The arbitration proceedings must be filed and held in Eugene Oregon.
Initials: __________
Your self-owned moving company name: ____________________________________
Your printed name: __________________________________________
Signature: ______________________________________
Date: _______________________________
Address: _____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Phone: ______________________________
E-mail:___________________________________________________
APPLICATION FOR MOVING COMPANIES .
It is your option to provide the following information about your company so AGMC can more accurately answer customer questions about your company, and better try to sell your services. You can pick and choose what you want to answer. But if AGMC isn't sure about your answer to a question about a service type that the customer asks about, AGMC will simply tell the customer AGMC doesn't know the answer, and/or possibly skip offering your company's services to that customer. You can add to or change this information at any time down the road by turning in an updated application, or by calling AGMC to verbally make updates.
1) Your company name: ________________________________________________
2) What forms of payment do you accept from customers?: ___________________________
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Do you accept Credit Cards: _________ (card fee: ______ %),
3) Aside from exceptions, what usual days of the week are you directing AGMC to try to help set up appoints for you?
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4) What first job of the day start time are you directing AGMC to try to help arrange for you as your most preferred start time?
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5) What's the earliest start time for your jobs you are directing AGMC to arrange for you, without checking with you first?
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6) What is your regular hourly rate you are directing AGMC to tell customers that you charge customers per mover for labor-only services, not including mini deliveries, & promotion discounts?:
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7) Do you want to sign up to offer AGMC's sales promotion discount of you offering your customers an exclusive $5 per labor hour discount (off your regular rates) for jobs booked thru AGMC's services (not including mini jobs & bids)?
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8) If you sign up for offering this promotional deal, you would need to agree to not give this discount to customers who don't book your company thru AGMC's services. Do you agree to this?
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9) If you are offering the discounted rate for customers booking thru AGMC, what's that discounted rate you'd charge customers per mhr:
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10) What are the Minimum hours length of a job you charge for at your regular hourly rates on a job, not counting "mini deliveries" (1hr, 2hrs, 3hrs,etc.?) :
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11) Does your company accept one man jobs?: __________
and if so, what are your hourly rates for a one man job?: ________________
12) Do you accept only 2 man or larger jobs?: ___________
13) Are you are a "Pack & Load" (labor only) service where the customer would need to rent and drive their own U-Haul, or are you a Full Service moving company that does Pack & Load and also is offering to provide and drive a moving truck for your jobs?:
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14) If you offer to provide and drive a truck (Full Service) for your customers, do you charge the standard Eugene area Tariff rates* ($157.70 per hour for two men and a truck, + over time hours, etc.)?:
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15) If you go by the standard Eugene Tariff rates, do you also go by the standard Tariff policy of adding a half hour of drive time to the whole crew's labor bill for picking up and dropping off the truck, past onsite hours (for local jobs)?:
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16) If you do offer to provide and drive a truck for your customers (Full Service) and you DON'T charge the standard Eugene area Tariff rates, what rates do you charge?:
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17) For a truck charge, do you charge your labor-only rates plus a truck & gas fee?: _________
if so what truck fee do you add to the labor fee? : ______________________________________
18) If you don't charge the Eugene Tariff rates, what do you charge for picking up, gassing up, cleaning up, and dropping off your own truck that you provide (or that YOU rent), beyond the hours spent onsite and between customer sites?:
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19) Just to be clear, if you are providing a truck, and if you do charge for drive time to get to a customer's starting location from your warehouse (or U-Haul rental location), and for time to return to your warehouse (or U-Haul rental location) after you've moved the customer's last item, if the job starts and stops within the Eugene and Springfield city limits, what do you charge for this truck pick up and drop off time?
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20) If a job either starts or ends outside of the Eugene and Springfield city limits, how do your charges alter for these "out of town" jobs, or is your dividing line farther out than the city limits?
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21) Do you offer the service of picking up, driving, gassing up, and dropping off a customer's rented U-Haul, and if so, what do you charge for picking up, gassing up, cleaning up, and dropping off a customer's rented U-Haul, beyond onsite hours (& reimbursement for gas)?
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22) Do you have a preference or special instructions for the way in which you are directing AGMC to set up job appointments for you, and if so, please explain:
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23) Do you offer any discount for a two man, one or two item "mini delivery", within the Eugene Springfield area, and if so, how do you define your "mini delivery" parameters and how much do you charge?
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24) Do you offer a satisfaction guarantee with your services, and if so how would you like AGMC to quote the wording of your satisfaction guarantee?:
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25) How close to a requested appointment time can a customer book your services without AGMC checking with you first?: (same day, x hrs in advance, only following day, only two days notice?)
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IF YOU HAVE ASKED AGMC TO HELP YOU FIND ADDITIONAL MOVING HELPERS
1) Might there be occasions where you would ask AGMC to help you find additional movers for you to hire?
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2) If you have not pre-negotiated some other pay rates with a moving-helper you are going to hire, what are the default pay rates you offer to pay new moving helpers who have never worked for you before, prior to you negotiating otherwise with them?:
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3) What form of payment do you offer to pay your crew?: __________
4) What is the default amount you offer to pay a helper for a two
hour minimum job, prior to you negotiating otherwise with them?: ___________
5) What is the default amount you offer to pay a helper for an under 1 hr.
job ("mini delivery"), prior to you negotiating otherwise with them? : ______________
SPECIALTY EXTRA SERVICE TYPES YOU OFFER
1) Do you offer to install washers, dryers & refrigerators? _____________
2) Do you offer to change dryer cords? __________
3) Do you offer to mount TV's on walls (have stud finder, level, drill & such)?: _______
4) Do you offer to prep & move of a Grandfather clock? _________
5) Do you provide Furniture scratch & ding repair? ________
6) Do you offer to move & reinstall Sleep-number beds? __________
7) Do you move Grand pianos?: ________
8) If so do you have Extra charges for Grand pianos, & what are they?: ____________
9) Do you move XL gun safes? up to ? lbs.: ___________
10) Do you move hot tubs?: __________.
If so, explain your rates:______________________________________
11) Do you move pool tables?: ___________________________________________________
12) Do you do professional packing of household items into boxes?: __________
13) For packing jobs, beyond hourly rates at the job site, how do you calculate the packing material expense (at cost?), & charge for getting & bringing packing supplies?
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14) Do you build specialty wooden crates for fragile large items, and if so how do you charge for off job-site work of getting the crating materials (beyond construction times)?:
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15) Do you offer a cleaning service, and if so what are your charges?:
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WHAT EQUIPMENT DO YOU OFFER TO PROVIDE?
1) How many hand-trucks?: ______ Padded? ________
2) Black straps?: _________ Orange straps?: ________
3) Moving blanket type?: ________ How many?: _________
4) Door cover?: _______ Door jam cover?: _________
5) Neoprene floor runner?: ________ How many?: ________
6) How many rugs do you provide?: ______ 7) Carpet protection film?: _______
8) Booties for crew?: ______ 9) Moving crew shirts?: ________
10) Ratchet tie-downs?: ________ 11) Door holder wedges?:Text
12) Plastic wrap big?: ________ , 13) plastic wrap small?:_________
14) Floor dolly type?: ______ How many?: ______ Wheel type? ______
15) Leaf blower?: _______ 16) Mattress bags all sizes?: _________
17) Mattress carrier?: _____ Type?: __________ 18) Drill & tools selection?: ________
19) Reusable TV box?: ________ How many? ________ Any extra large?: ______
19) Aluminum tape?: _______ 20) Rubber washers (for hoses)?: _________
21) Pig ties?: _______ 22) Dryer cords?: _______ 23) Vent crimper?: ________
24) Level?: ______ 25) felt pads?: ______ 26) Wall spackling & paint kit?: _______
27) Scratch & damage repair kit?: ______ 28) Step ramp?: ______ 29) 6' ramp?: _______
30) Tire raiser boards?: _______ 31) Extra cardboard boxes?: _______________________
32) Other?: ___________________________________________________________________
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Signature: _______________________________________ Date: ________________________
link to printable W9
LISTING ORDER DETERMINATION
If you want to know how the listing order of moving companies is determined on AGMC's Eugene Moving Company listing website page (the order in which moving companies are presented to shopping customers), and how to improve your company's listing order, this is all well explained on this website's page titled "LISTING ORDER DETERMINATION". Just click the link below.
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