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- Path: sparky!uunet!netxcom!jwc
- From: jwc@netxcom.netx.com (Jeff Comer)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Rental Cars & Additional Drivers
- Message-ID: <1255@netxcom.netx.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:45:17 GMT
- Organization: The Chaos Bobs
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- staggers@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ken Staggers) writes:
- >In upstate NY, a few rental companies will not let you take the car into
- >NY city because their insurance doesnt cover it. Now in NYState you are
- >only responsible for $100.00 of damage to a car. But if you knowingly
- >violate a contract you signed which stated you would not take the car
- >into the city, you *might* be liable for the whole amount (I have never
- >read the entire NY State consumer law on this, so there could be holes
- >in it) and your insurance company might balk at paying anything over
- >$100.00.
-
- Reminds me of the time we rented a car in Atlanta for a drive down the
- West Coast of Florida. The first thing the rental agent tells us, "You
- can't take the car into Florida." Great; we're already a 5-mile ride from
- the airport. So we took the car anyway ("Florida? Where's that...?").
- Curiously, the car (and all others in the lot) has Florida tags. It's
- like some sort of scam going on here.... But there was no Florida provi-
- sion on the contract, just a verbal statement, so I felt we were safe.
- And no, we didn't buy the CDW that day either.
-
- -jc
-