{"id":6060,"date":"2014-10-14T17:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T01:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2014-10-14T17:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T01:49:52","slug":"news-report-1-888-junk-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/news-report-1-888-junk-van\/","title":{"rendered":"News Report On 1-888-JUNK-VAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was surprised to read on my twitter feed recently that there was apparently an undercover investigation done on a local Vancouver junk removal company called 1-888-junk-van. Why did this company name ring a bell? It happened to be the exact junk removal company<\/a> I blogged about awhile back where my experience with them wasn\u2019t exactly ideal.<\/p>\n

The investigation was done by a local consumer reporter named Lynda Steele and you can read an article overview of the report at http:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/junk-removal-company-accused-of-overcharging-customers-1.2047776<\/a><\/p>\n

Based on the report and some other research it seems like the company is owned by a Mohammad Sharif Begg. After watching the report on TV the main thing I was thinking was how I should have documented my experience better as it sounds like there are a ton of people who had similar negative experiences. Without the tangible proof of course it becomes a he said she said case. It can\u2019t be a coincident on how so many points in this investigation was similar to my experience.<\/p>\n

While I haven\u2019t had much experience with junk and waste removal companies, there are sure a lot of sketchy operations I noticed. Example, one\u2019s that have questionable billing practices like in this report or one\u2019s that internally have questionable human resource practices. I am wondering if the reason for it is because the business itself seems fairly straight forward to setup.<\/p>\n

I am really curious what is going to happen next to this company. For example, one possibility is that they can simply re-brand if they feel the current attention is too much where they can continue what they do. Sometimes having a ton of negative reviews isn\u2019t good enough to change things for the better. Only time will tell. I do love it when everyone comes together and shares stories though to fill in pieces of a puzzle like for some of my other posts where the Internet essentially did the exposing together. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was surprised to read on my twitter feed recently that there was apparently an undercover investigation done on a local Vancouver junk removal company called 1-888-junk-van. Why did this company name ring a bell? It happened to be the exact junk removal company I blogged about awhile back where my experience with them wasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5219,45,5953,5220,2860,4435,5221,5223,5224,5222],"class_list":["post-6060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-1-888-junk-van","tag-bills","tag-business","tag-ctv-news","tag-invoicing","tag-junk-removal-experience","tag-lynda-steele","tag-mohammad-sharif-beg","tag-sharif-begg","tag-vancouver-junk-removal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/timemoney.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1zK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6063,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions\/6063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}