Does It Work? The EZ Moves

Don't want to break your back, or the bank moving furniture?  The EZ Moves claims to do most of the heavy lifting for you.

The commercial says it can even lift and move a car! Too good to be true?

We look to the professionals to put it to the test in this seven on your side consumer watch.

The commercial says all you have to do is "just lift place and slide.  The EZ moves furniture lifter gives you up to  10 times your regular strength. Then the EZ moves slide right into place so that your furniture simply glides across any surface." 

Veteran mover John Rebish with Smith Dray Lines in Greenville puts a little sweat equity into helping us test it out.

After his first push on a hard surface he says, "It still takes a good, you've got to give it some effort to push it around."

That's odd.  The older ladies in this commercial don't seem to have any trouble.

"It's so easy," they say.

The dresser is almost 250 pounds.  Could it really work on something heavier?

The commercial claimed it can move a "2623 pound car without any assistance."

Our tester couldn't even get the pads under the car.

"You can see it's not getting up there far enough and it's just going to want to come out or pinch the tire."

When we drive this 24-hundred pound car on top of the gliders It doesn't budget. 

So the device couldn't get a good grip on the car, but we wondered, can it lift something of comparable weight?  So we found a 2000 pound safe.  The question is, will this buckle under pressure.

Rebish tests it out and says "the bar is not bending, but you can see it's not working, it's not lifting."

So we bring in a former wrestler to put a little more weight into it... but the lever bends!

Still the EZ move did pass the carpet test.  Both this dresser and the chair moved fluidly on the plastic carpet pads, just like in the commercial.

With that in mind, the Smith Dray Line crew who witnessed the testing gave it a fair grade.

"For everyday use I gotta say, this isn't bad, I could see some use out of it," said Scott Singletary, an executive with Smith Dray Lines.

But the EZ Moves buckled under the weight of the more bold claims in this ad.  So if you decide to fork over 20 dollars for the product, just beware.