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Mission accomplished: Wife is safely in Jacksonville. Btw, f-you Alamo

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Jan 6 '16, 08:57

Reserved car for 7 days. Flights changed and we needed it for 8.

Alamo had NO means to fix this for me short of cancelling the reservation and rebooking at the exorbitant current price (nearly 3x). Not adding 1 day on the end, not extending the reservation. Expedia was useless in helping

Rented from Dollar for original price + 50 which was basically Alamo's "one day" rental cost. I would have paid Alamo that if they had offered but no.

Now they are on the list. Budget and Alamo are dead to me.

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In case you're interested. There's an Airbnb for car rentals called Turo (was RelayRides) - budice Jan 6, 09:02 1
- interesting. I could never do this with my car - oblique Jan 6, 09:03
Just as an FYI, Alamo is owned by Enterprise (as is National) so they might all need to go on the list. - iSpam Jan 6, 09:01 5
- I pretty much stick with Avis, and Hertz as a backup. - JaxSean Jan 6, 09:04
- *extends list* - oblique Jan 6, 09:02 3
  - Went behind the scenes of an Enterprise shop one time... - budice Jan 6, 09:05
  - um..... - spamlet si Jan 6, 09:04 1
    - SLTLL -- nm - JaxSean Jan 6, 09:05
"dead to me I say!" - Epiphany Jan 6, 08:59 4
- best part is, if I had tried to do something like return the car late (technically 5 hours because she'd be returning it super early the next morning) - oblique Jan 6, 09:01 3
  - You should have burned the rental place down. Or at least torched one of their cars. - sycor Jan 6, 09:03 2
    - I felt like Steve Martin in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles while on the phone with them. I really wanted - oblique Jan 6, 09:04 1
      - Make sure you don't get charged a no-show fee. I don't know if car rental places do that. -- nm - sycor Jan 6, 09:07
Let me know if she needs anything! -- nm - JaxSean Jan 6, 08:58 1
- ...anything?? -- nm - Ms. Kilbo SI Jan 6, 08:59

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Mission accomplished: Wife is safely in Jacksonville. Btw, f-you Alamo

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