“Budget took advantage of the 1-day addition to the planned rent period to overcharge - paid 3x !”
About Budget:9.3/10
i got mixed up in the dates and gave the car back with a delay of a day (1 additional day on a 12 day rental). They charged me 300% of the price planned. I called and asked them to give me a break - they logged a request in the computer ... and i never heard back from them. i would have done better to book a luxury car and a longer holiday.
I mentioned many times at the counter that I had already purchased comprehensive insurance from my home country, but they kept trying to sell me their glass and commercial insurance. They wouldn't give me the keys, saying we needed that insurance to cross into Belgium. We had no choice but to buy it. Initially, they said it would be 65 euros, but with taxes, it ended up being over 80 euros.
I rent cars in Europe for 200 days a year, and this car rental company is terrible. The counter clearly stated it was a deposit, but after returning the car and leaving Paris, they charged my credit card. When I asked the car rental company, they said it was for insurance. If I wanted insurance, wouldn't I have bought it at the counter? And they didn't even have my signature.
When renting cars from other places, they always give confirmation receipts. Here, there's none. Is it to force us into buying additional insurance? I clearly stated when picking up the car that I didn't need extra insurance, but still got charged for it after returning the car!
A terrible car rental experience. Because we had a lot of luggage, we specifically rented a Volvo V90 Station Wagon (810 per day). When we arrived, they said they didn't have it, and the only automatic car available was a BMW 3 Series. They told us to take it or leave it. I was instantly frustrated! Later, they said they had a manual SEAT SUV (other rental websites offer it for 300 per day). You can imagine the disappointment of swapping a luxury brand flagship like Volvo for a budget brand manual SEAT. The staff insisted they were of the same level, OMG! Finally, they said they would refund 88 euros, not because of the downgrade, but out of sympathy for me. Since my other credit cards were out of money, I used an old credit card at this shop. After a 6-hour self-drive, we arrived at our destination only to find that my card had been fraudulently charged 110,000 pesos in Argentina. I quickly called the bank to freeze the card and had to go to an ATM late at night to prove I wasn't in Argentina. It was definitely the staff who did it because he was the only one who had used my card. The next day, I had to report it to the local police. It was the most troublesome trip in my six years of driving abroad. I wonder if the car rental company can handle it well. If not, I'll post about this on forums like Tianya and ShuiMu Community!
We booked a car that said it held 7 passengers. We made the decision so that the 5 of us would be more comfortable and have room for luggage. What a shock to find the seats that were considered seats 6 and 7 were not real seats - I'm not sure a two year old child could have sat in those seats. And, had we actually need the seats there would have been NO ROOM for a single bag. The advertising of a 7 passenger mini van is VERY misleading. I urge caution when booking - do not take the specs at face value.
Very long time to pickup the car. The first car they gave me had a problem with the touch screen so I changed it immediately but the second one they gave me was not automatic so I had to change again and in the end they gave me a big Renault Scenic which was really not the model I was expecting, really too big for the need I had, not convenient on small road and small parking etc. The process took more than 1 hour
Only electronic signatures, no paper records. I bought full insurance from the rental car company through Zuzuche. However, the rental car company still asked me to purchase additional insurance, which I didn't quite understand and ended up signing for. Consequently, I was charged an extra one thousand dollars for insurance. Zuzuche later translated the insurance names for me. I don't understand Chinese terms very well, let alone French.
The process of picking up and returning the car was quite smart. The biggest issue is the lack of transparency in charges and non-standard procedures, which harm consumer rights. We initially completed and paid for our order on the app, where the terms were clearly readable. However, at the store, being unfamiliar with the area, we wanted three drivers to be able to drive the car. The staff registered the documents of the additional two drivers and charged our credit card a pre-authorization fee, claiming it was to cover potential damages or violations. After returning to our home country, we discovered that Rent-a-Car charged us an additional fee of about 200 euros (approximately 1500 RMB) for the extra drivers. (1) At the time of pickup, the staff did not inform us that adding drivers would incur a fee, nor the standard rates. (2) The rental contract was sent to our email simultaneously as we picked up the car, leaving no time to read or consider it beforehand. By the time we had questions, it was too late. (3) The entire process fails to protect consumer rights properly; the correct sequence should be informing consumers of the charges, providing the contract, and allowing time to review and agree before any charges. Instead, information is not proactively provided, and consumers only learn about the charges afterward.
I was forced to buy additional insurance without my knowledge, and over 200 euros were charged to my credit card without reason. Awful service! I didn't even get the Volvo I booked.
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