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...right. As far as the oft-maligned Collegeboxes is concerned, last year’s disaster, during which many stored boxes were lost, was not repeated. In fact, Collegeboxes told The Crimson that it serviced 628 customers at Harvard this year and that only four claims are still pending. Collegeboxes?? national record, however, is far from sterling. At New York University and Columbia, Collegeboxes appears to have performed as poorly this year as it did at Harvard last year. Students are understandably squeamish about Collegeboxes and will likely remain so until the horror stories abate. The issue...
Like a mysterious and frustratingly persistent rash (see Mather Lather 2006) or an annoying kid sibling, Collegeboxes, the company that turned summertime storage into a boondoggle of epic proportions last year, is back. Collegeboxes??proclaimed the largest national storage and rental business geared towards college clients (whatever that means) by The Wall Street Journal—has re-inked a contract with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) to provide summer storage on campus. Their slick website promises three Justin Timberlake and Andy Sandberg-like simple steps—step one: put your junk in a box; step...
...year’s choice, Collegeboxes, Associate Director of Residential Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98 wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday.Gingo said administrators elected to use the company again—despite last year’s difficulties—because of major changes in Collegeboxes?? operations over the past year and the company’s ability to handle the College’s substantial storage needs.More than 500 Harvard students used Collegeboxes?? services last year, according to Scott Neuberger, the company’s president and chief financial officer.An...
...responded rudely to inquiries. Due to renovations in Kirkland last summer, residents who wanted free storage had to stow their boxes and furniture with Collegeboxes. Harvard fronted the cost to students of storing up to six boxes with the company. HSA’s contract with Watertown-based Collegeboxes??dubbed by The Wall Street Journal as the largest national storage service company oriented towards college students—expired this fall, and HSA has yet to decide whether to renew it. “We’re going to take our own route of evaluation and look...
...their doors in September. Three months later, students have had to complain repeatedly to Collegeboxes and threaten legal action against the company, and only now have they begun to recover—or at least be compensated for—the personal effects mishandled by the company. Though Collegeboxes?? Web site boasts that their “efficient system” began as “a solution to the inadequate storage options available to students,” it is abundantly clear that the service has instead created massive problems, the resolution of which needs...
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