"SMS" <scharf.steven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> badgolferman wrote:
>
> When the return person at the rental company asked me how the vehicle
was,
> I told her the list of problems and she knocked one day off the rental,
so
> a 10 day rental of the Caravan was only $254. My sister-in-law got one
day
> off, plus a fuel credit for 1/2 a tank of gas, and her 10 day rental for
> an Explorer was $235. The G6 10 day rental was $370 (from a different
> rental car company).
>
You make an interesting point about car rental companies knocking off part
of the rental fee
if the renter is dissatisfied. In 2000 I rented a Buick Le Sabre,
having
been talked into being
upgraded from a smaller car that I'd laid on. The Buick was nice, except
that it had a dent in
a front fender, a full ashtray, some photos in a folder left by the prior
renter, and the day after
I rented it, the engine was two quarts of oil low, which I replaced at my
cost.
I mentioned these facts to the manager on my return, and he quickly
offered
to knock off
$50, but I countered with "How about knocking off the cost of the upgrade,
and charge me
for the smaller car that I originally ordered?" This meant about $108.
He immediately said "Done!" I never made $108 so fast in my life.
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