Assuming that you are going to spend a significant amount of time on packing before, during, and after a move, personally I find it worth paying a reasonable amount of money for movers. Let me get one thing straight - there are not many people that work for a moving company that are all that great. Even the good companies are very busy and have less-than-great workers most of the time. You want the packers and movers in the bigger companies because they have a lot of resources and people on hand. And with the people they work with, they just need to get something done in order to release them to do more work.