# Fucking Bekins (moving company)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-bekins-moving-company/970172>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-bekins-moving-company/970172 "2022-08-23T16:59:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-bekins-moving-company/970172/21 "2022-08-26T18:34:13Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> a $2500 bowl made by a famous glassblower

If a moving company is doing the packing for you, I’m surprised that they don’t have language that requires such a high value item to be identified for special packing/handling. Did you identify the bowl for careful treatment to the packers? If not, maybe you bear some responsibility for this? Of course, they should not pack anything in a manner that may lead to its breakage. But you can’t expect packers who handle ordinary household goods to know that a bowl is this valuable unless you tell them.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-bekins-moving-company/970172/22 "2022-08-26T18:49:17Z")

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> [@Riemann](#):
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> Did you identify the bowl for careful treatment to the packers? -

It’s a glass bowl. Anyone who doesn’t know glass is fragile shouldn’t be packing for a moving company.

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-bekins-moving-company/970172/23 "2022-08-26T19:04:19Z")

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> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Anyone who doesn’t know glass is fragile shouldn’t be packing for a moving company.

Anyone who doesn’t know checked bags should not be lost should not be operating as an airline. But if you secretly fill your checked luggage with a million dollars in cash and the airline loses it, is it reasonable to expect them to reimburse you?

The packers/movers were negligent. But the issue is _quantifying_ that negligence. Their liability must surely be conditioned on what degree of care is appropriate, which is a function of what they knew (if @Chefguy told them) or otherwise what they would reasonably expect about the value of a bowl included with ordinary household goods. To some degree I think that’s a function of how opulent the household goods are overall, and the total declared value and total cost of the whole contract. If a $2,500 bowl is the kind of thing you’d reasonably expect in context, I think that’s different than if it were not specifically identified and mixed in with furniture from IKEA.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-bekins-moving-company/970172/24 "2022-08-26T21:01:32Z")

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They do have such language. The bowl was on a table with other higher value items, and the packers were told about them.

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