Get Van review

Going from renting a one-bed flat to a 3-bed house is somewhat of an adventure. After the initial euphoria of having stairs, spare rooms and a garden to get excited about, it suddenly occurred to me that if we're not careful we'll be watching Christmas movies on patio chairs and storing our clothes in suitcases. The some total of our furniture currently amounts to three bookcases, a coffee table and a rug - not the most homely collection! We have some serious shopping to do.

A colleague of mine was recently trying to find a new home for her beloved leather sofa, which she was having to offload in a house move. I'd been pawing over sofas on the internet for some time, lamenting at the hundreds of pounds I'd soon have to part with. The prospect of adopting a beautiful, squidgy, soft leather sofa for free was tempting, although I needed to transport it from her house to a friend's garage. Luckily, it gave me the perfect opportunity to try a delivery price comparison site that my sister has been raving about constantly, after she developed a mild Gumtree addiction for secondhand furniture.

The idea of Get Van is that you load up your delivery job and companies pitch for it. Having hired many a man and van in the past, I'd always thought it would be too pricey for one-off pieces of furniture, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to upload the job and see what came through.

I popped the details of the job - including details of the item to be collected, the date and location of the job - I sat back and waited for the quotes to come through. A few minutes later an email popped into my inbox. £134. Hmmm. Not exactly the bargain I'd been hoping for. A few minutes later, in popped another. £50. Brilliant! And then a few minutes later, £25. Perfect! I accepted the job and paid a deposit via Paypal. On the day, my driver, Kevin, was prompt, kind, helpful and quick. The sofa was loaded carefully and deposited safely on the other side in about 30 minutes. Perfect!

The beauty of Get Van is that drivers pitch against one another, which means it drives down the cost without you having to contact lots of different companies for quotes. You can review the drivers and see their feedback online too, so if you're looking to move something precious, you might go with a highly rated driver, rather than the cheapest. It really is that simple.

Now I can't wait to sink into that soft leather sofa with a cat on my lap.

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