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- From: kasvand@ccrs.emr.ca (Tony Kasvand)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: AVIS screws us big time
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.152918.17224@emr1.emr.ca>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:29:18 GMT
- References: <1992Aug5.143222.1539@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil> <1992Aug11.223422.10989@Princeton.EDU> <1992Aug12.212629.4595@sco.COM>
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- In article <1992Aug12.212629.4595@sco.COM> rogerv@sco.COM (Roger Vortman) writes:
- >We had a similar experience happen when we had to make an emergency trip
- >to Detroit over Christmas...we reserved a car at an unnamed car rental
- >agency. Called again the night before we left to confirm our reservation.
- >Since we had a "confirmed reservation", we didn't know that we needed to
- >call when the plane arrived. Anyway, due to a hangup in getting the
- >baggage off the plane, we (me, my wife, and my two young daughters,
- >1 and 4 years old, and too much luggage which included a stroller) arrived
- >at the car rental place about 1 hour and 15 minutes after the plane came
- >in. We were told that we were considered "no-shows" since we got there
- >more than one hour after the plane arrived, and that our car had been
- >rented to someone else.
- >
- >That's the car rental business, I guess. They can't care about individual
- >people as much as their bottom line. Pretty short-sighted, it seems.
-
- Not at all. Any business which worked like that (on a holiday
- especially ) would be bankrupt.
-
- After all, a grace period of an hour of your scheduled "pickup" is more
- than enough.
-
- Next time, take into consideration that the plane might be late. Thus,
- make your reservation later. I'm not trying to flame you (and please don't
- flame me), but the rental acency lived up to their end of the deal.
-
- My Loonies worth (0.70 cents american).
-
- --
- Tonis Kasvand | "..and then I realized , without a shadow of a doubt,
- Ottawa, Canada | I was doubtful."
- kasvand@ccrs.emr.ca| - Tonis Kasvand
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