How prices on this site are verified

The listing rules

• Official website required. A company is listed only if it has its own website. Companies found only on social media or directories are excluded.
• Published prices only. Per-item prices are listed exactly as published. A company with no per-item price is listed at its own published truckload, range or flat price — and a company with no published price at all is listed as “No published price”. No price is ever invented, averaged, or borrowed from another company or city.
• Market estimates are not company prices. Where a company’s page publishes general market figures, that is stated and the figures stay out of the price tables. Los Angeles example: a $79 “starting price for junk removal companies in Los Angeles” on one company’s guide page is a market figure, not that company’s price, and is not published as one.
• Different services are never mixed. Dumpster-rental prices, moving-customer add-on prices and self-drop-off prices are labelled as what they are, or excluded — never presented as standalone junk removal prices.
• No phone numbers, no booking. This is a price guide. The only way out is a link to the company’s own website, and those clicks are recorded with bot and human clicks separated (see the click log).
• Prices change. Each price carries its own verification date, shown next to the price — the first city checks date from 2026-11-07, and every company in the November 2026 expansion was verified on 2026-11-14 by directly opening its official website. Anything that could not be re-opened (rate-limited pages, an unresolvable domain) was left out entirely rather than published from search snippets. A company that changes or removes its prices will be updated or removed at the next check.

Corrections already made by this method

• Los Angeles: one company’s dumpster-rental prices were removed when they could not be found on its live pricing page; a transfer station initially researched was removed entirely because it is not a junk removal company. In the November 2026 re-check, Legacy Junk Removal’s dumpster prices ($479/$579) were likewise removed — they are not on its live pricing page.
• New York City: prices attributed to one company by search snippets were deleted after its opened page showed no dollar price anywhere; a moving company’s market-estimate table is labelled as estimates, not its prices.
• Chicago: a “$99” figure from search snippets was rejected after the opened pricing pages listed every job as “Free quote”; a mattress company’s price was corrected from a third-party $80 to its own published $50. Lugg was removed entirely — it is an on-demand moving platform, not a junk-removal company — and 21 Chicago companies whose entries rested only on search-index text were held back until they can be re-opened.
• Austin: one company’s per-item prices turned out to be moving-customer add-ons; only its standalone truckload prices ($380 minimum) are listed. Smiley’s mattress price is withheld: its own page states both $40 and $30 for the same item.
• Dallas: a 12-yard dumpster price ($300) attributed to JunkGuys was removed after a full read of its live page showed the figure is not there; two Junk North DFW starting prices (TV, hot tub) were dropped because their pages could not be opened for verification.
• Atlanta: a ⅓-truck tier ($249) and a same-day rush fee attributed to Two & Through were removed — neither appears on its live page.
• Houston: both of Texas Junk Management’s price tables are withheld — its own pricing page publishes two conflicting tables for the same load sizes, and neither can be shown as settled fact.