SAM containers with their silver finish and polished lines are more attractive than PODS, although I suspect PODS containers work better for visual marketing. Container Sizes, Shapes, Weight Capacity and Quality Most people don’t want to store their goods outside for any period of time.
SAM also offers non-climate controlled facilities. Climate-controlled facilities are essential to the self-storage business.
Even if it did, you could always use Guerilla Mail (or in my case, Container Storage Facilitiesīoth PODS and SAM offer climate controlled, secure facilities. The system doesn’t do an e-mail confirmation, so any fake address will work. The only issue I have is that PODS requires your e-mail address to process the request. I understand the motivation for this: no need to give your competition easy access to the data. PODS requires you to query their system with a start and end destination in order to find out whether they serve that area. SAM provides a map and list of serviced cities on their site. What I found was that SAM was more up front with the locations they service. But, for the sake of completeness, I took a look. After all, if either company doesn’t do business in your departure or destination location, you’ll rule them out without further examination. I’ll say up front that it is a bit unfair to compare these services based on their local availability. If you’ve got experience with either, weigh in below and make this comparison even better.
The information on SAM is from their own advertising material.Īs always, experience speaks louder than advertising. What follows is a comparison of a few facets of their business that should help someone make a decision between them. If you need to understand it, back up two paragraphs, replace PODS with SAM, and you’ve pretty much got it. I could explain their business model, but that would make this post repetitive. Not surprisingly, they do just that: store and move your stuff (although I suppose they actually move, then store, but MAS was found a worse acronym than SAM). For what its worth, SAM is a not-as-clever acronym for Store and Move. The lack of barriers to entry was sure to attract some new players to this market, and it already has.Ībout a month ago I was watching my favorite cable news network and up popped an ad for SAM, the latest entry into the residential container self-moving market. They’ve taken containerized shipping–an innovation that has given us the myriad of goods at our favorite big box stores–and brought it to residential moves. But there’s no huge technological advancement in this business.
#Pods vs packrat vs upack drivers
Buy a few hundred containers, paint them, hire some drivers to move the containers around, and collect payment. Of course, the PODS business model isn’t rocket science. PODS sells simplicity and convenience in the self-moving business, and they’ve really nailed it. After you finish unloading it at the new place, a call to the PODS hotline will summon them back to pick up the container and be on their way. At your request, they pick up the loaded container and will either move it directly to your destination, or store it in a secure warehouse until you’re ready to have it delivered. You can take as long as you want to load it (subject to local regulations and the depth of your pockets). PODS drops off a container at your starting point.
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