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Dorm & College Moves

Moving into the dorm,

— or out for the summer.

Move-in day chaos, a fourth-floor walk-up with no elevator, a summer storage run, the end-of-year scramble to be out by noon. A vetted local mover — or a neighbor with a truck — brings the muscle (and the truck, if you need one) to haul the boxes, the mini-fridge and the futon up the stairs or into storage, for an offer you set. No big-van minimum for a dorm-sized load, nothing marked up. You pick your help by name, rating, and reviews — perfect for a student budget.

Find your mover now Why it’s better

📦 boxes, mini-fridge & futon 💵 100% of your offer to your help 🛗 up the walk-up or into storage

Why dorm moves are better here

Three things a moving company won’t do

Gopher isn’t a moving company with a full-van minimum built for a house, not a dorm room. It’s a local marketplace built on three simple rules.

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Hassle free & haggle free

Make an offer up front or ask for instant bids. Either way you’ll experience the easiest way to find great workers ever — one carload to the dorm or a whole apartment cleared by checkout.

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Paid directly

Your mover is paid directly and keeps 100% of your offer — 0% commission. No big-van minimum and nothing marked up; use your car or their truck, agreed up front, with any gear at cost. Built for a student budget.

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Booked to done

A helper you pick by name and rating handles it start to finish — boxes, the mini-fridge and the futon hauled up the walk-up and into the room, or out, into storage, and you’re checked out by noon. Nothing scratched.

What changes for you

Dorm moves with Gopher vs. a moving company

Same dorm-sized load, very different deal. Here’s what shifts when a neighbor with a truck handles it instead of a company pricing a whole-house move.

What changes

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The Gopher Way

💵What you pay

×A full-van minimum with weight-and-distance pricing built for a house — not a dorm room.

✓You name the offer and your helper keeps 100% of it — scaled to a dorm load, no minimum. Built for a student budget.

💪Who does the lifting

×A crew you’ll never meet — or you and tired parents wrestling it up on move-in day.

✓A vetted local mover — or a neighbor with a truck — you pick by name, rating & reviews.

📦What gets done

×A whole-house package — overkill for boxes, a mini-fridge and a futon.

✓Exactly the dorm load: boxes, mini-fridge, futon and storage tubs — hauled up to the room or out for the summer.

🛗Stairs & move-in crowds

×A per-flight stair fee and a long wait while every other family unloads at once.

✓Stairs and the fourth-floor walk-up are part of the agreed job — no per-flight fee, no waiting on a crew.

🗄️Summer storage

×A separate booking and a second bill to stash it all for the summer.

✓Haul it straight to a storage unit (or back in the fall) in the same job — for the offer you set.

🔁When it happens

×A fixed window booked weeks out that ignores your dorm’s assigned move-in slot.

✓The day and time you need, booked now — your move-in window or your checkout deadline.

No surprises

What you actually pay

Everything’s on the table before you confirm. No big-van minimum, no per-flight fee, nothing padded:

🧰Dollies, straps & padding, at costThe real price for any gear the job needs — only if it’s used, never padded

at cost

👷Your offer to your helpYou set this. They keep 100% of it.

you decide

📱A small Gopher feeThe only thing Gopher keeps to run the app

a few $

New to your area? We recommend securing your Gopher first, then booking the work. Gopher isn’t a fulfillment service, so if there aren’t many workers near you just yet, we won’t leave you hanging — and rest assured, we’ll be there soon.

How it works

From packed car to moved in

Say what’s moving and where

The dorm load, the pickup, and the room (or storage unit) it’s going to.

Name your offer

Set what you’ll pay, on a student budget. They keep 100% of it.

A local mover takes it

Nearby help with a truck is alerted. Pick yours by rating, or take first available.

Hauled up & moved in

Boxes, mini-fridge and furniture carried up the stairs and into place — or out and into storage.

Dorm move coming up? Gopher it.

Get the boxes, the mini-fridge and the futon hauled up the walk-up or out to storage — for an offer you set, by a neighbor with a truck you picked, with no big-van minimum and nothing marked up.

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