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After I bought an electric car, I kept my other car around just in case. I figured I'd rent it out on Turo since I wasn't concerned about maintaining the condi
by sixQuarks 7y ago
After I bought an electric car, I kept my other car around just in case. I figured I'd rent it out on Turo since I wasn't concerned about maintaining the condition of the vehicle (it's a 6 year old Nissan).
Even though I wasn't concerned about my car being mishandled by renters, I couldn't believe the condition some renters would return it. After this experience, I would NEVER rent out a nice car through these services. If people treat your car like shit, imagine what they do to big rental car company's vehicles.
- erdos4d 7y agoBig rental car companies can keep coming after you for the damages though. A lot of people don't have the same fear of some startup making the same effort for a vehicle that isn't theirs in the first place.
- _bxg1 7y agoIt's a common theme with many of these "sharing economy"/"gig economy" companies: "We're like X but without all the stodgy process and procedure!" [a few years pass] "Turns out all that extra stuff was there for a reason and now we're going to either punt on it and screw over our customers and/or contractors, or monkey-patch it onto our business that wasn't built with it in mind."