> Are you booking your cars at a rate negotiated by your employer? Yes. But I believe I get the same prices on my personal account. > I don't see anything abo

> Are you booking your cars at a rate negotiated by your employer? Yes. But I believe I get the same prices on my personal account. > I don't see anything about discounts in the Emerald Club benefits section. This may be why. I'm Emerald Executive -- my employer has negotiated Executive tier for every employee. I also have the same tier on my personal account through my credit card. I don't rent cars in NYC (that's one place where rentals are inadvisable -- NYC is hostile to driving). But just priced out DSM for you 7/11 - 7/17. For Economy and Compact = $152/week base, $219 total with fess included. Midsize = $157/week base, $226 total with fees included. (Someone else with Executive membership but without a company negotiated rate, please verify.) With Executive level membership, I can get a midsize and pick any vehicle from the Executive aisle. This can be anything from an SUV to a lower-end luxury car. This is why National is amazing. > How can someone be loyal to any company whose pricing model is "the absolute most we think we can get out of you, personally"? It's differential pricing as a result of yield management [1]. You can hate on it but it's part of the reason the economics even works for certain classes of goods and services. Without it, large swaths of services in the hospitality industry (hotels, airlines, etc.) would not be accessible to the masses or be profitable. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management