Starr H.
Yelp
Wow. First time I rented from them, for a week's rental, they were professional, expensive, but I suppose not worse than any other car rental. Jumping through the hoop of having to provide a current pay stub and utility bill, if you want to pay with a debit card was a pain in the... but oh well.
So, when I needed a car for just a couple of days, that's where I went back. First off, going DIRECTLY to their website does NOT get you the $9.99/day weekend rental rate they so lavishly advertise on television; to get THAT price, you have to actually find the AD for that, online, then back-door into their rental site through the ad. Going DIRECTLY to their site got me a quote of $29.99 per day for the exact same period.
Okay, I've found your "deal" price, great! Sign me up. Clicked the link that says, "We'll pick you up" I mean, that IS their motto and stock-in-trade - the only rental place that will actually give you a ride in to get the car!
Booked the rental on Friday for an early Saturday morning pick-up and a Monday morning return.
AN HOUR AFTER I BOOKED, they left a message on my HOME answering machine asking if I was STILL GOING TO NEED THE CAR?????? Seriously? Why no, my plans have changed in the last 67 minutes and I will no longer need to pay you roughly half of what I was going to earn at where I needed the car to get to! But I didn't get that answering machine message until after their business hours that day so couldn't call them back until the morning, the morning in which they were supposed to come pick me up for said rental.
When I did call, they repeated that, since it WAS a very busy weekend, would I still need the car? Yes. Yes, I do need the car - the car that I requested to be picked up for, THIS MORNING; in less than an hour, as a matter of fact. .... "OH, well... I'll have to check if we still have a courier out"... After 3 rounds through their hold music/advertisement bombardment, she comes back and says, "We actually don't do pick ups on the weekend. Will you STILL want the car?" Um, I guess not, since I have NO WAY TO COME GET IT! "Have a nice day!", she says. To which I replied, "Kind of hard to, now! Thanks."
If they truly do not do pick ups on the weekend, would she not have known that from the get-go and not had to put me on hold to confirm? If I had paid full price, instead of finding their weekend deal price, would their answer have been the same?
I was already sick, and feeling like crap; thanks so much for leaving me to walk the 7 and a half miles to get where I needed to get that weekend. Thanks ever so much.