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Just not my experience I guess. No upsells, never a 30 minutes wait. I haven't owned a car in 15 years so renting is pretty normal for me and almost always effo

• switch007 3y ago
  I've rented cars on and off for ~15 years, my experience: there are certainly regional differences but renting has certainly got shittier and shitter over the years, perhaps skewed by my experience in Europe: - Car class inflation (cheaper models, models being bumped up a category i.e. "Luxury" not actually being Luxury) - Instead of raising prices sufficiently, they use 'damage' as a revenue stream more and more - Reticence to give you a printed paper contracts, making it harder to inspect them. - Far less thorough damage recording. It's like they just delete existing damage in the records at the beginning of the rental. I always get a blank damage sheet when I rent. - Higher and higher mileage vehicles - Bigger and bigger deposits and damage excess ("co-pay") - Dynamic Currency Conversion scam - Fuel recharge scam This isn't just a post-pandemic cost-recovery thing. Renting was getting shittier in the years prior