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Sure you can. I have rented cars a bunch of times without a credit card. Enterprise makes it pretty friendly, but most companies will rent you the car. Lost sal
by jonknee 14y ago
Sure you can. I have rented cars a bunch of times without a credit card. Enterprise makes it pretty friendly, but most companies will rent you the car. Lost sales are lost sales, if you show up with money in hand they will try and get you into the car. Enterprise takes a deposit of some sort which is reasonable and the same thing that most hotel chains do.
A credit card isn't a ton of protection for the rental car company anyways, regardless of authorization it's not likely you have a credit line to cover the entire car.
- baddox 14y agoJust showing up with money and hoping to get a car isn't a very good solution, when you're arriving in an airport where you don't know anyone and you truly need a car. I tried calling ahead and reserving a rental car without a credit card (my CC had just been approved, but not mailed yet) in this situation, and the answer from every rental place in the airport was a firm "No." I tried offering to give a huge deposit (after all, my checking account had $10k in it, and my new credit card would only have a $1k limit), but that didn't matter. It was clear that this was their policy, period. My friend who worked at another Enterprise confirmed this. Perhaps I could have ignored them and "just shown up with cash," but there is no way I was going to risk that.