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CONDITIONS UPON WHICH PROPERTY IS REMOVED, PACKED OR WAREHOUSED BY MARIO'S MICRO MOVERS CC TRADING AS MARIO'S MOVERS.

THE CONDITIONS ARE APPLICABLE TO MARIO'S MOVERS (hereinafter referred to as the Contractor).

CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO TENDER

  • The contractor’s ESTIMATE COVERS removal of goods by normal means only and extra amounts will be charged where conditions are in the opinion of the Contractor’s abnormal or where the Contractor’s vehicle are kept waiting, or where access within 25 metres of residence is inaccessible.

  • The Tender is submitted subject to the condition that the vehicle is still available at the acceptance of this quotation valid for fourteen (14) days.

  • Every endeavour will be made to complete the removal by the time declared but the contractor cannot accept liability should delay arise through stress of weather or work, labour troubles, mechanical breakdown or from any causes beyond its control.

  • Where goods are delivered to warehouse at destination, all charges for storage and delivery must be borne by customer unless otherwise arranged in writing in advance. All removals are to be prepaid unless acceptable written arrangements are made and accepted by the Contractor on behalf of the client.

POWER RESERVED BY THE CONTRACTOR

  • The Contractor SHALL IN ITS OWN DISCRETION BE ENTITLED to remove goods either in its own vehicles or those of a subcontractor and the customer hereby absolves the Contractor from all claims whatsoever after delivery by it of goods to a subcontractor.

  • The Contractor may at any time during the removal transfer goods from vehicle pending transfer into its own or other storing place, when goods are in store they remove them from one store to another.

  • The Contractor shall be entitled to pay all charges claimed for previous storage or packaging or by the other contractors, carriers or forwarding agents and for other charges whatsoever and shall have a general lien, pending refund thereof by clients, and the powers to exercise the lien as herein before provided.

  • The Contractor reserves the right to store with subcontractors should his storage space not be available for any reason.

INSURANCE – READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON REVERSE SIDE OF VALUATION FORM.

  • THE CONTRACTOR DOES NOT OFFER INSURANCE. GOODS NOT INSURED IN OWN CAPACITY ARE REMOVED AND STORED AT OWNERS RISK. The Contractor advises their clients to contract their own brokers and or Insurance Company to arrange Insurance.

CUSTOMER’S RESPONSIBILITY

  • The customer warrants that the property handed to the Contractor is either his own property or that he had full and absolute authority of all persons owning or interested in the property to enter into the contract and agrees to indemnify the Contractor against all claims, costs charges and demands made against the Contractor in respect thereof.

  • It is incumbent on the customer to see that nothing required to be removed is left behind and that no goods or fixtures are taken away in error. Liability of any such omissions or mistake will rest solely on the Customer.

  • The Contractor does not handle goods which are combustible, explosive or in any other way dangerous, and the Customer will be liable for any and all damages caused by such goods and will indemnify the contractor for any claim which third parties may have.

  • In appending his/her signature on the contract, the Customer is aware that the Contractor has to allocate a vehicle for the specific purpose of undertaking a removal for the Customer. The Customer will be responsible for any cost the Contractor may suffer from loss of earnings or deviation of routing if the Customer cancels the removal and the Contractor is thereby denied revenue resulting from the cancellation.

CONTRACTOR’S LIABILITY

  • The Contractor shall not be responsible for the loss of or failure to produce or for damages to any article contained in drawers, wardrobes, cabinets or other article of furniture or in any package or case not packed and unpacked by his employees, nor for plated jewellery or other valuables, unless the same shall be specifically given to his foreman under seal, and written notice of the value thereof shall have been received by the Contractor prior to the date of removal or storage or the commencement of the packaging, nor in respect of any property not set forth and described in the Warehouse inventory. The Contractor will not in any circumstance be responsible for any loss of keys, which should be retained by the Customer.

  • Every care will be taken by the Contractor to prevent injury or damage to statuary, glass, mirrors, barometers, musical instruments, electrical and mechanical appliances, wireless sets, refrigerators and goods inherently defective but as these articles may be injured without negligence the Contractor does not accept any liability in respect of such injury or damage or deterioration or non-adjustment of such articles which are handles solely at owner’s risk.

  • Should any claims for damages or loss arise under contract, the nature of the damages or the goods lost shall be noted by the Customer on the driver’s delivery slip, failing which no claim shall lie and the amount of the claim for damages shall be given to the Contractor in writing within three days after completion after removal or delivery of the goods, or if for alleged loss, in writing within seven days after the goods alleged to have been lost should in the ordinary case have been delivered, time to be the essence of the contract, in all cases. When there is more than one load each load shall be signed for individually.

  • The Contractor shall in no way be liable for any damage to or loss of goods incurred after delivery to the customer or to a warehouse or any other place of storage and onus shall rest on the Customer to prove that the damage or loss was not incurred after delivery.

  • The Contractor does not accept any liability whatsoever for linoleum or similar floor coverings, whether old or new unless they are packed in the original containers. Lampshades of any description are also moved at owners’ risk unless they are properly packed.

  • The Contractor will be responsible for the exercise of ordinary diligence and care but accepts no responsibility in respect of loss or damage to goods caused by moths, fire, theft, mildew or deterioration, act of God, or other causes beyond the control of the Contractor.

  • The Contractor does not accept any liability for loss or damage caused by the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of its staff.

  • Storage charges will be paid monthly and removal charges will be paid when goods are tendered for delivery outside the premises at which they are to be delivered unless otherwise arranged in writing by the parties notwithstanding any claim in favour of the Customer against the Contractor, the Customer shall be obliged to settle the amount charged by the Contractor prior to release from store.

  • Storage taken in during the first 15 Days of a month will be charged as a full month, but thereafter as half a month. Storage going out the first 15 days of a month will be charged as half a month, but thereafter as a full month.

  • If the rent or other charges due to the Contractor in respect of any goods deposited with or held by it should be three months in arrears, the Contractor shall, after sending by post to the Customer or his agent, at the last address known to him, one calendar month’s notice of its intention to sell such goods, then have full power to open and examine the whole of the property and to sell such goods or any part thereof by public auction or private treaty as it may deem fit, both to obtain its charges and also to clear the warehouse, and retain and apply the proceeds of the sale of the goods so sold in payment towards charges payable to the Contractor in respect of such goods, or by the depositors of such goods, including the costs of sale.

STORAGE

  • Storage fees are exclusive of costs of removing, packing or stacking away and un-stacking. A charge for receiving and handling will be made to Customers who convey their goods to the Contractor’s store. Access to goods in storage must be arranged in advance and when convenient for which the Contractor will charge the Customer.

  • The Contractor will at its discretion, pack goods considered unsuitable for storage in the unpacked state and charge the cost of such packing to the owner.

  • The Contractor requires 21 days written notice from Customer of his intention to have goods delivered which are stored in the Contractor’s warehouse.

  • The Contractor shall have the power to terminate the contract to store by sending post one month’s notice to the address furnished to them by the Customer.

  • The Customer shall pay storage and re-delivery costs to the contractor prior to delivery or collection of these goods from the Contractor’s store.

PACKING AND PLACING ON RAIL/SHIP/AIR

  • If instructions are given for goods to be railed or shipped, the liability of the Contractor ceases when the railway authorities, shipper or freight company accept the Goods.

  • All packing materials must be returned to the Contractor at ‘empty return’ rate, carriage forward with one week of unpacking.

GENERAL

  • The contractor accepts no responsibility for damage by the Contractor’s trucks to drives, pathways, gates or fences, underground water or sewage mains or overhead electric wires unless the Contractor’s drivers are warned by the Customer that they may not enter the premises with the Contractor’s trucks. In such an event an extra charge may be made for the extra carrying distance involved.

  • The parties hereto agree that any proceedings to be instituted arising out of this agreement shall, at Contractor’s opinion be instituted in the Magistrates Court for the area having jurisdiction, and the parties agree to the jurisdiction of the Magistrates Court in terms of Section 45 of Act 32 of 1944 as amended.

  • Unless varied in writing by the parties the above-mentioned conditions will apply to packing, removals and warehousing by the Contractor. Verbal modification of the conditions will not be binding on either the Customer or contractor.

  • The Customer is aware that the carrier is a holder of a Motor Carrier Transport Certificate issued in terms of the Motor Carrier Transportation Act in terms of which the carrier is permitted to carry certain goods that the Customer is aware of the actual commodities which the carrier can carry the Customer warrants that he will not hand to the driver of any vehicle goods which the carrier is not permitted to carry with notice. Inflammable or like effects will not be carried by the Carrier.

  • The Contractor may alter without notice the price of quotation if for any reason beyond its control increases in costs of fuel, tyres, labour, packing materials etc. including shipping and destination fees are levied between point of collection and final delivery, whether such removal is by sea, air or road.

  • Owner packed cartons are removed, packed, stored entirely at owner’s risk and Contractor will not accept any responsibility for loss or damage thereof.

  • No variations of these conditions are accepted unless Contractor’s signed endorsement confirms such action, and is signed in acknowledgement by both parties.

  • Pot plant, plant and their containers are carried entirely at owner’s risk. The Customer indemnifies the carrier if for any reason the carrier or its employees convey such without the consent of the owner and these are lost or damaged in storage or transit. Customer warrants that they will ensure that no plants are conveyed in contravention to any territory’s byelaws.

  • Notwithstanding that the owner may be acting in a representative capacity in concluding this agreement; the owner by his/her signature confirming acceptance of our quotation hereby binds himself/herself as surety and co-principal debtor in solidum for the due payment to the Contractor for amounts payable in terms of this agreement.

  • The Customer/Owner of his/her employer may not withhold payment in respect of a claim arising during removal/storage. Failure to pay invalidates insurance cover and renders the responsible party liable by his/her signature appended hereon to legal action or recourse.

  • Payment is due before removal date, unless prior arrangement has been made. Proof of electronic payment must be faxed to our offices prior to the removal date. Interest on overdue accounts will be charged at a rate of 15% per month.

NOTES

  • The Rates quoted exclude VAT and Insurance.

  • The quotation is based on the information provided by yourself, and any added items will be charged for accordingly.

  • A surcharge will be levied for work undertaken over weekends and public holidays.

  • All work undertaken assuming reasonable access – refer clause paragraph (1) of conditions. Shuttle, long carry and hoisting will be charged accordingly if required.

  • Long distance rates based on ‘Shared Loads’ unless indicated differently.

  • Owner packed cartons, pot plants and holders are carried entirely at owner’s risk.

  • A minimum of 25 cartons will be charged for on any pre-pack requested. We do not offer insurance and goods are carried entirely at the owner’s risk.

  • Goods stored at origin or destination will be subject to a redelivery charge. Storage escalation at 12% per year. A handling charge will be levied for part collection/delivery of goods in to/out of store.

  • All charges are payable before the collection of goods, by CASH DEPOSIT, BANK GUARANTEED CHEQUE or ELECTRONIC TRANSFER. Regrettably, no credit cards will be accepted. Please fax proof of payment to 021 933 5997.

  • All work undertaken will be subject to our standard conditions of contract, a copy of which is enclosed for your attention.

  • A booking cannot be confirmed until a signed acceptance is received.

  • Cancellation of the relocation contract will incur a cancellation fee.