Match the moving scope before comparing prices
Compare two or three actual written quotations for one domestic move in Korea.
A low base price may exclude a ladder at the origin, unpacking at the destination, appliance disconnection or installation, parking and carrying work, waiting time or extra workers.
Define the work your household requires, then check each mover against the same list before comparing cash amounts.
This is a Korea-based, KRW quotation tool with a 2026 reference year; it does not generate market prices or rank movers by quality.
An early budget and a contract comparison serve different decisions
Before obtaining quotations, start with the moving cost calculator for preliminary budgeting.
Return here to compare actual scope, confirmed charges and unresolved extras.
The example amounts are fictional teaching inputs, not current regional averages or recommended prices.
Prepare the written information
- Move date, origin and destination, floors, lift access, parking conditions and the final goods inventory
- Each mover’s base amount, VAT inclusion and the actual separate VAT amount if applicable
- Offered truck tonnage, vehicle count, workers and hours included in the price
- Inclusions and extra charges for ladders, appliances, carrying, waiting and extra workers
- Conditions, charging units, lower and upper amounts, and written caps for conditional extras
- Deposit receipts and confirmation that the paid amount belongs to this quotation’s total price
If a telephone explanation differs from the document, keep the discrepancy in your notes and ask for a corrected written quotation.
Different inventories can produce quotations for different jobs even when the home address is the same.
Do not replace a missing price with another mover’s rate: an unknown item should remain visible as a question for the mover who will charge it.
Define the common home and minimum service quantities
Date, addresses and goods
Describe floor access, lift bookings, parking restrictions, long carries, furniture disassembly and large appliances.
Check the same move date and final inventory with each mover.
Written confirmation is your input; the calculator does not survey the property or determine the volume of your belongings.
Tonnage, vehicles, workers and time
Common minimums are requirements you choose for this comparison.
Each offered truck tonnage, vehicle count, worker count and included duration must meet its respective minimum.
Equal aggregate tonnage alone does not make different vehicle and staffing arrangements identical, and a larger number does not establish better service quality.
Changing the common description or required quantities invalidates earlier scope confirmation for every quote.
Editing one mover’s offered conditions requires fresh confirmation for that mover.
Obtain confirmation against the current version of the work rather than carrying an old agreement into a new inventory or date.
Review eight service items consistently
Packing and unpacking
Check packing at the origin separately from placement and unpacking at the destination.
Note any goods you must pack yourself and the materials the mover supplies, so the same label does not conceal different tasks.
Origin and destination ladders
Review both ends separately.
An unnecessary ladder can be switched off in the common list, but an included origin ladder does not establish that a destination ladder is also included.
Appliances, parking and carrying
Confirm whether specialist appliance work is supplied by the mover or requires a separate provider.
Record parking charges, long carries and stair work as included services or additional cash charges according to the actual quotation.
Waiting, excess hours and extra workers
Record when charges begin and whether they are billed per hour, worker or another unit.
A rate without a duration limit or a confirmed total cap cannot establish a finite maximum bill.
Do not mark an expected conditional fee as free simply to complete the comparison.
Switch off work that is unnecessary for every quotation; those rows are excluded from the calculation.
If a mover cannot supply a required task, mark it unavailable and withhold the same-scope comparison.
Resolve the difference by obtaining a revised quote that covers the work or redefining the common scope consistently for all movers.
Choose the right confirmation status
- Included: the task is covered by the base quote and adds zero to the calculation.
- Fixed extra: a confirmed additional cash amount needed to provide the same required work.
- Conditional range: lower and upper extra amounts for stated conditions, with separate written-cap confirmation.
- Unknown: inclusion, pricing or another required fact has not been confirmed.
- Unavailable: the mover does not provide required work, so equivalent-scope comparison is not established.
A confirmed zero is different from an empty field.
Do not replace an absent or unconfirmed upper amount with an invented finite allowance.
For uncapped waiting charges, ask about the actual charging conditions and maximum amount before treating a budget reserve as a complete contract cost.
Keep VAT and deposits from being counted twice
Enter actual VAT rather than assuming a rate
An inclusive base price receives no additional VAT.
For a separate-VAT quote, enter the actual VAT amount confirmed by the mover; leave the basis unknown if it has not been verified.
The tool does not determine tax treatment or apply a statutory tax rate.
All additional fixed charges and conditional bounds must already be tax-inclusive cash amounts in KRW.
Subtract paid amounts only from remaining cash
A deposit is an earlier payment of the same total price, not an extra cost.
Subtract it to find the cash still needed without adding it to total cost.
A paid amount greater than the confirmed subtotal triggers an input reconciliation error: check the receipt, its allocation and your cost classification.
Confirmed subtotal and conditional total formulas
Confirmed subtotal = base amount + actual separate VAT + fixed extras
Conditional lower total = confirmed subtotal + conditional lower extras
Conditional upper total = confirmed subtotal + conditional upper extras
Remaining cash = each total − paid amount allocated to that price
Do not enter an included service again as a fixed extra.
The confirmed subtotal is the sum of known items, not a final price when unresolved work remains.
Unknown VAT, unknown or unavailable required work, an absent conditional upper amount or an unconfirmed written cap withholds both the upper total and upper remaining cash.
A known lower amount is not assurance that this amount alone will fund the move.
Worked example: two fictional quotations
Assume the same date, home and inventory, with one 5-ton truck, 4 workers and 8 included hours confirmed for both movers.
A has a VAT-inclusive base of KRW 1,000,000, a fixed ladder charge of KRW 200,000, and waiting extras of KRW 0–100,000 with a confirmed written cap.
B includes all common required work in KRW 1,350,000 including VAT.
For this comparison example, assume KRW 100,000 has been allocated as paid against each quote.
Fictional moving quotations A and B: confirmed subtotal, conditional totals and remaining cash in KRW| Item, KRW | Quote A | Quote B |
|---|
| Confirmed subtotal | 1,200,000 | 1,350,000 |
| Conditional lower–upper total | 1,200,000–1,300,000 | 1,350,000 |
| Already paid | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Remaining lower–upper cash | 1,100,000–1,200,000 | 1,250,000 |
A’s upper total of KRW 1,300,000 is below B’s lower total of KRW 1,350,000, so A is lower within these entered ranges.
That conclusion depends on the same scope and the stated caps; it does not guarantee future charges.
If A’s waiting cap were unconfirmed, the upper total and single-price conclusion would be withheld even if a numerical upper amount had been typed.
Read the interval result and extra-cost reversal threshold
Every participating quote must satisfy the common conditions and required tasks, with confirmed upper amounts, before the tool identifies one lower-cost option.
Its upper total must be strictly below every other quote’s lower total.
Overlapping intervals and equal amounts withhold a single conclusion.
With three quotes, an unresolved third quote prevents a claim that either of the other two is the lowest of all three.
The example’s subtotal tie threshold is KRW 150,000
The difference between A’s confirmed subtotal of KRW 1,200,000 and B’s KRW 1,350,000 is KRW 150,000.
Holding the other quote’s extras fixed, an additional KRW 150,000 on A ties the subtotals; KRW 150,001 reverses their order.
This is neither a newly established cap for A nor a statutory discount entitlement.
The threshold is withheld when scope is not comparable, rather than making different contracts appear equivalent.
Step-by-step comparison and written clarification
- Fix the final date and goods list, then define common minimum quantities and required work.
- Enter mover names, actual base prices, VAT treatment and already-paid amounts separately.
- Copy offered vehicle, worker and time conditions and obtain written confirmation against the common home scope.
- Choose each required task’s status and enter fixed or conditional cash amounts, caps and charging notes.
- Read the confirmed subtotal separately from conditional totals, withheld results and remaining cash.
- Save the TXT question sheet and request missing inclusions, caps and a revised written total from each mover.
Ask which condition and billing unit creates a charge, how much it costs and whether a written cap exists.
After receiving answers, update the affected statuses and amounts and recalculate.
The file is not sent automatically; review any address or personal information before sharing it.
Practical situations for the comparison sheet
Find omitted work behind a low base price
If one mover charges separately for unpacking or appliance work, add the confirmed cost needed to supply the same scope.
A service the mover cannot provide is a scope difference, not simply a cheaper quotation.
Prepare the balance and waiting budget
After paying a deposit, cash still needed matters separately from total-cost order.
Check waiting conditions when access times and lift reservations may not align, and resolve an unconfirmed cap before treating the cash plan as complete.
New furniture deliveries, waste disposal or specialist installation under separate contracts are not automatically included.
Align the required scope first and budget other contracts separately.
Cancellation, changes, damage compensation and dispute procedures require a separate review of the contract documents.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use this before a home survey?
Yes, but a headline telephone price rarely confirms the full scope or a cap.
Use actual written quotations for the same date, home and inventory.
For an early budget before receiving quotes, use the moving cost calculator.
How do I enter a ladder charge included in the base price?
Mark the relevant origin or destination ladder task as included.
Do not enter the same charge again as a fixed extra.
Confirmation at one end does not automatically cover the other end.
Can I enter zero when no extra charge was mentioned?
Use zero only when the same task and conditions have been confirmed as having no additional charge.
Leave unanswered items unknown.
An empty field or an unknown status does not mean free service.
Does the calculator automatically add VAT?
No tax rate is applied automatically.
If base VAT is separate, enter the actual VAT amount confirmed by the mover.
Every additional fixed or conditional amount must already include any applicable taxes, so VAT is not added to it again.
Why does paying a deposit not lower the total cost?
A deposit is an earlier payment of the same total price.
It is subtracted only from remaining cash, without being added again to total cost.
A paid amount above the confirmed subtotal triggers a reconciliation error.
Should I invent a maximum for uncapped waiting fees?
No.
Leave the cap unconfirmed when no written cap exists.
An hourly rate alone does not establish a finite maximum without a bounded duration or a confirmed total cap.
Ask the mover to clarify the charging conditions.
Does a larger crew mean a better mover?
The calculator does not assess quality or the appropriate crew size.
It checks whether offered truck tonnage, vehicle count, workers and included hours meet your common minimum.
Skills, actual deployment, working methods and damage handling need separate review.
Why is the quotation with the lowest lower bound not selected?
A lower bound describes a lower-cost scenario.
A single lower-cost quote is identified only when every participating quote is comparable and capped, and its upper bound is strictly below every other lower bound.
Overlaps and ties withhold that conclusion.
What happens when the date or inventory changes?
Reconfirm all quotations after changing common conditions or required quantities.
Editing one mover’s offered conditions also requires fresh confirmation for that quote.
Recalculate after editing rather than relying on an earlier result.
Is the saved question sheet sent to movers?
No.
TXT export downloads a file at your request.
It does not send anything to a mover or enter a contract.
Review addresses and personal details before sharing the file, and request a revised written quote for each unresolved item.
Sources, review date and limits
Guidance checked on 2026-11-12; calculation reference year: 2026.
The Korea Consumer Agency guidance on small-scale moves, published 2026-04-21 supports reviewing vehicles, workers, work scope and additional-charge conditions before contracting.
Amounts in consumer complaint examples are not used as market rates or recommended prices.
Calculated amounts come from your confirmed quotations or the explicitly fictional example.
The tool does not determine statutory charges, automatic tax amounts, standard fares, mover reliability, appropriate staffing, legal refunds or damages.
Recheck the actual site conditions, scope, caps, deposit allocation and VAT basis whenever a quotation changes.
Decide after obtaining revised quotations for the same work
Resolve unknown work and uncapped charges before focusing on the price difference.
Enter your written quotations above, save the question sheet and ask each mover to confirm the same inclusions and cash total.
That creates a clearer basis for the decision immediately before signing.