{"id":330,"date":"2014-01-03T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/?p=330"},"modified":"2014-01-03T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:31:38","slug":"moving-company-fined-for-breaching-consumer-protection-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/moving-company-fined-for-breaching-consumer-protection-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Company Fined for Breaching Consumer Protection Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Having received growing number of grievances in opposition to moving companies, the office of consumer protection director \u201cEric Friedman\u201d has stated that &#8220;Holding someone&#8217;s personal goods and memories hostage in exchange for payment of exorbitant fees is inexcusable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">With that said, a Gaithersburg moving company has also been fined for breaching Montgomery County\u2019s consumer protection law, sources say that the company is operated by Adam Shaikh.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Shaikh has been fined an amount of    $3,000 covering six civil citations, stemming from three consumer complaints.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Shaikh, who did business as Big Brothers Moving in Gaithersburg has  found breaching some of the laws; the violations included holding goods hostage, failing to say whether a moving estimate was binding or non-binding, perverting services including in estimates and charging extra and misrepresenting online that the company was licensed and insured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having received growing number of grievances in opposition to moving companies, the office of consumer protection director \u201cEric Friedman\u201d has stated that &#8220;Holding someone&#8217;s personal goods and memories hostage in exchange for payment of exorbitant fees is inexcusable.&#8221; With that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/moving-company-fined-for-breaching-consumer-protection-laws\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,11],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-moving-company-news","category-moving-companies","category-moving-services","tag-big-brothers-moving","tag-consumer-protection-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moverrankings.com\/moving-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}