Here's some tips for travelers. When renting a car for $38 a day and for $42 a day you can get 'extra protection', ask what the TOTAL cost will be and see if you can get a straight answer. You ask them, "Is that 4 extra dollars a day? Or is that 42 extra dollars a day?" Listen to the bullshit gobbledegook that will come flowing your direction then. We didn't bite on that one.
One I did bite on and kicked myself for falling for it was as follows. The easy way to handle returning the car with a full tank of gas is to just buy the gas from the rental company at the return time. Right? I mean, they're charging $.20 a gallon less than street prices. What could go wrong? Ohhhhhh, did we forget to mention that we charge you for a full tank of gas no matter how much gas is in the tank. Well the solution is easy. Just return the car with the tank empty. What?! How am I going to time that one? Pull into every gas station I see and put in $.50 of gas and hope I make it back to the rental car place? Live and learn.
(editing note - gobbledegook is in dictionary.com but not Googles' spell checker)
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I got stuck with the refueling charge a year or two ago for the first time - they didn't make it clear that you would pay for the entire tank of gas, no matter how much you used. Now, I always ask up front what I'm paying for, and unless I know I'm going to be pressed for time, I always tank up myself before I return the car. Even though I'm getting reimbursed, it still galls me to get ripped off like that.
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