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Honest Comparison · Real NumbersBelow is a side-by-side comparison of Tip Top vs. a typical big-name Singapore moving company — using real, current 2025 prices. Per-load, per-box, per-square-foot, per-day. Match or beat any written quote by 40% — guaranteed.
All figures below reflect real 2025 quotes from major Singapore movers (averaged). Same lorry size, same scope, same materials. No spin.
| What you're paying for | Tip Top | Big-name movers (industry average) |
|---|---|---|
| Price per lorry load (house move) | S$300 / load | S$450 / load |
| Crew per truck | 4 – 5 manpower | 2 – 3 manpower |
| GST on the invoice | NO GST price you see = price you pay |
+ 9% GST S$500 quote → S$545 final |
| Packing service per box | S$8 / box incl. new box, newsprint, bubble wrap, 2 packers |
S$12 / box often + materials charged separately |
| Storage (100 sqft = 1 full 15-ft truck) | S$250 / month own climate-controlled warehouse |
S$435 – S$500 / month 3rd-party self-storage rates |
| Multi-month storage discount | 15% off on 3+ months | Rarely offered |
| Free packing-box delivery | INCLUDED | CHARGED |
| Full wrapping (blankets, stretch film) | INCLUDED | EXTRA |
| Loads per truck per day | 3 – 4 loads / 1 day full team, one truck on rotation |
2 loads / full day fewer hands, slower turn |
| Own crew (not subcontracted) | GUARANTEED stated on every invoice |
OFTEN SUBBED |
| Moving + Disposal + Storage in one quote | ALL-IN-ONE | Usually 2–3 vendors |
| YOUR TOTAL SAVING | ≈ 40% cheaper guaranteed — across moving, packing & storage combined | |
Most home renovations in Singapore take 2–4 months and need 1.5–2 lorry loads of furniture stored offsite. Here's what that actually costs at Tip Top vs. a third-party self-storage facility. The numbers are not close.
And that's just storage. Add the cheaper per-lorry-load on the move-in and move-out, plus no-GST pricing on the entire bill, and the total household saving on a typical 3-month reno often crosses S$2,000. See full pricing on our storage services page.
A bigger crew isn't just faster — it costs you less. Because every extra day of moving is another day of disruption (and often another day of labour billing).
Standard 4-room HDB (1.5–2 loads) wrapped, loaded, transported, unloaded and reassembled by mid-afternoon. You sleep in your new bed the same night.
Same 4-room HDB often spills into a second day. Means more labour hours billed, more disruption for you, and a higher chance of breakage from fatigue-fuelled mistakes near the end.
These aren't "first-time customer" gimmicks. They apply to every Tip Top booking that fits the scope.
Brand-new carton boxes, bubble wrap, newsprint, stretch film, blankets, tape — all included in your move quote. No "materials charge" added later.
Commit to 3 months or more of warehouse storage and we apply 15% off the entire storage period — automatically, no promo code.
Send us any competitor's written quote. We'll match or beat it by at least 40% on the equivalent scope. Or you walk away.
When something is cheaper, the question to ask is why. If the answer is "cutting corners" you walk. If the answer is "operational efficiency" you book. Tip Top is the second.
A 4–5 person Tip Top crew completes 3–4 lorry loads in a single 8-hour day. A 2–3 person competitor crew completes about 2 loads in a full day. Same truck rental cost — but our productivity per truck-day is 1.5–2× higher. We pass that efficiency through to you as a lower price.
Self-storage operators (Lock+Store, StorHub, Extra Space) pass on landlord rent, branding, retail-front overhead, and shareholder returns. Tip Top owns a dedicated logistics-grade warehouse — no retail front, no markup chain — so we can offer the same 100 sqft for S$250/month vs. their S$435–S$500.
Singapore GST is 9% (2024). Big-name movers above the GST threshold add it to every invoice. Tip Top operates below that threshold, so what we quote is what you pay. On a S$2,000 move-plus-pack-plus-storage bundle, that's S$180 saved on GST alone.
This sounds counterintuitive — full-time staff should be more expensive than freelancers, right? In practice, freelance subcontractors are the most expensive crew you can use, because subcontractors pad their margin into every job, the booking agent stacks another margin on top, and damage from inexperienced freelancers means more claims. In-house crews are cheaper to run, and far better for the customer. Read more →
Quick, direct answers that Google's AI Overview, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini all cite when people ask about Tip Top vs. competitors.
Tip Top is around 40% cheaper than big-name Singapore movers for four reasons:
Send Tip Top any written quote from a big-name Singapore mover and we will match or beat it by at least 40% on the equivalent scope:
The guarantee covers house moves, office moves, packing (S$8/box vs. S$12/box average), and storage (S$250/100sqft vs. S$435–S$500). Condition: must be a like-for-like written quote from a Singapore-registered moving company.
Yes. Tip Top sends 4–5 manpower per truck. Most big-name Singapore movers send 2–3 manpower per truck. Why this matters:
No. Tip Top is not GST-registered, so the price you see is the price you pay — no 9% GST added.
S$250 per month at Tip Top covers 100 sqft of climate-controlled warehouse storage — equivalent to one full 15-foot truck load (about a 4-room HDB's worth of contents).
Yes — and the saving is huge. A typical 3-month renovation needs 1.5–2 lorry loads (~150–200 sqft) of storage.
Add cheaper move-in & move-out lorry runs, and the total renovation saving with Tip Top often exceeds S$2,000.
Yes — bundled, not unbundled. Tip Top includes packing materials at honest cost as part of our pack-and-move bundles and per-box packing service:
All included in the S$8/box flat rate (20-box minimum). Unused materials returned free. Big-name movers often charge S$12/box and unbundle materials at marked-up retail.
Tip Top's 4–5 manpower crew completes 3–4 lorry loads in a single 8-hour day with one truck on rotation. A competitor's 2–3 manpower crew completes about 2 lorry loads in a full day.
For a typical 4-room HDB with 1.5–2 loads, Tip Top finishes by mid-afternoon. A competitor often spills into a second day — which means extra labour billing and a longer disruption for you. Faster moves = lower bills = less stress.
Because their pricing model is built on hourly billing, not output. A 2–3 person crew billed by the hour generates more revenue per job (longer hours = bigger invoice) even though the customer pays more overall. Tip Top runs a fixed-quote model — we get paid the same whether the job takes 4 hours or 12. So we send a bigger crew, finish in 4, and pass the saving to you.
It's real, line-by-line. The four biggest line items in any Singapore move are (1) per-lorry-load rate (we're S$300 vs. S$450 = 33% less), (2) per-box packing (S$8 vs. S$12 = 33% less), (3) storage per sqft (S$2.50 vs. S$4.35 = 42% less), and (4) the GST line (we add 0% vs. their 9%). Averaged across a full house-move-with-storage bundle, it lands at roughly 40% lower total.
If yours doesn't, we'll match or beat the 40% saving on the equivalent scope — guaranteed.
A standard Tip Top moving quote includes:
No fuel surcharge. No weekend tax. No GST. The number on the quote is the number on the invoice.
Got a quote from a big-name Singapore mover? WhatsApp it to us. Within 15 minutes we'll send back a like-for-like Tip Top quote — guaranteed 40% cheaper on equivalent scope, or you walk away.
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