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Moving Company Estimate Decoder
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-decoders
Decode a moving company estimate — binding vs non-binding, the weight and cubic-feet games, valuation vs insurance, and the red flags that precede hostage-load stories. Use when someone asks 'is this moving quote legit', 'decode my moving estimate', 'binding vs non-binding estimate', or 'how do I avoid moving scams'. Produces an estimate-type decode with what-you'll-actually-pay scenarios, ranked red flags, the valuation decode, and the questions that separate real movers from brokers.
What to give it
▸The estimate / contract text — including the fine print pages; the type of estimate is sometimes only in the fine print.
▸The move shape — local vs. long-distance/interstate (very different regulatory pictures — flag interstate specifics as verify-with-regulator), inventory scale, dates.
▸How the estimate was made — in-home/video survey vs. phone/online guess: a non-surveyed estimate is structurally a lowball.
▸What's known about the company — name as quoted; the mover-vs-broker question gets a verification step regardless.
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The estimate type is identified and its bill-at-delivery consequence stated first
✓Scenarios include the mechanism, not just the number
✓Released-value valuation is computed on the user's actual items
✓Interstate-specific rules are flagged verify-with-regulator, not asserted
✓The broker-vs-mover question gets a verification step even when nothing looks wrong
✓The disclaimer line appears verbatim in the artifact
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not treat all movers as scammers — the industry's honest majority is exactly why the pattern-matching works; decode, don't panic
Do not accept "binding" verbally — the word must be on the document with a total
Do not let cubic-feet pricing pass on a long-distance move without its flag
Do not confuse valuation with insurance — the document does that on purpose; undo it
Do not skip the name-match check — the quote, contract, and truck naming three companies is the whole story in one detail
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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