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Re: Rental Cars
« Reply #25 on: April 11, 2013, 10:08:52 AM »
let me just say that Avis Preferred / Budget RapidRez is the absolute BITB. You just show up and bypass the counter and get straight into your car and drive away. I mean every time it happens it makes me smile.

hertz #1 gold and national executive club also do this.  national is the best because you just pick whatever car you want and drive it away.
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« Reply #26 on: April 11, 2013, 10:42:42 AM »
i worked at enterprise rent a car for six months ten years ago.

SO DID MY WIFE. :sdeek:

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« Reply #27 on: April 11, 2013, 10:48:45 AM »
let me just say that Avis Preferred / Budget RapidRez is the absolute BITB. You just show up and bypass the counter and get straight into your car and drive away. I mean every time it happens it makes me smile.

hertz #1 gold and national executive club also do this.  national is the best because you just pick whatever car you want and drive it away.
Budget is great if you are under 25.  Can still get the rapid rez perks and everything without paying the under 25 fee if you sign up for USAA.  Has savd me money and time on multiple occasions and they are generally good about giving you a better car if you ask.
https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/rental_cars_main_public?akredirect=true
BITB discount and is actually a better deal about 75% of the time than my company discount with Budget.

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« Reply #28 on: April 11, 2013, 10:49:04 AM »
i worked at enterprise rent a car for six months ten years ago. the reservation is taken as a courtesy and means absolutely nothing. that, i can guarantee you. it's exactly like that seinfeld episode if you've seen that seinfeld episode. also, lol at them giving you an upgrade just for the heck of it if they actually happen to have the car that you reserved on their lot.

that's funny because exactly 10 years ago, a young version of pissclams was employed by hertz and we gave free upgrades all of the time.  it was our policy.  we would actually offer them to people without waiting for them to ask.  oh well, i guess that ends the old enterprise versus hertz debate once and for all.


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« Reply #29 on: April 11, 2013, 12:19:44 PM »
let me just say that Avis Preferred / Budget RapidRez is the absolute BITB. You just show up and bypass the counter and get straight into your car and drive away. I mean every time it happens it makes me smile.

Avis is pretty good, but National pimp slaps all other rental cars straight in the face. 

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« Reply #30 on: April 11, 2013, 01:31:30 PM »
let me just say that Avis Preferred / Budget RapidRez is the absolute BITB. You just show up and bypass the counter and get straight into your car and drive away. I mean every time it happens it makes me smile.

Avis is pretty good, but National pimp slaps all other rental cars straight in the face.

yep  :thumbs:
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« Reply #31 on: April 11, 2013, 01:34:58 PM »
The Enterprise people are super rough ridin' nice.  I like that.   :thumbs:

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« Reply #32 on: April 11, 2013, 01:38:14 PM »
Another great thing about Avis is, unlike every other car rental company, their advertisements do not make me want to throw my TV out the window.

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I think what my friend Mitch is trying to say is that true love is blind.

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« Reply #34 on: April 11, 2013, 02:27:02 PM »
i worked at enterprise rent a car for six months ten years ago.

SO DID MY WIFE. :sdeek:


where? six months seems to be about the avg length of time that most can last. i realized that i would be quitting about a week in, but needed the "work" experience to get another job since my previous job as an aggieville bartender coupled with my non business related degree weren't exactly going to lead to fortune 500s knocking down my door. worst job i've ever had in my life. just the worst jerry.

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« Reply #35 on: April 11, 2013, 02:33:27 PM »
i worked at enterprise rent a car for six months ten years ago.

SO DID MY WIFE. :sdeek:


where? six months seems to be about the avg length of time that most can last. i realized that i would be quitting about a week in, but needed the "work" experience to get another job since my previous job as an aggieville bartender coupled with my non business related degree weren't exactly going to lead to fortune 500s knocking down my door. worst job i've ever had in my life. just the worst jerry.

Tell me more! I always saw enterprise at college job fairs and wondered how bad it could be.

Heard from a friend of a friend that worked there for a couple months that they basically make you manager of a location in a real shitty neighborhood and you work 60 hours a week.

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« Reply #36 on: April 11, 2013, 02:38:12 PM »
I met Rick Daris one time and he would not shut up about his stupid rental car job he had. Do not want to hear about it again

i used to work at a rental car place and now i have a good paying job and im so much better for it  :blah: :blah: :blah:

So annoying

I think what my friend Mitch is trying to say is that true love is blind.

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« Reply #37 on: April 11, 2013, 02:42:46 PM »
no. you don't manage an enterprise immediately. you are just one of the several workers there wearing a suit and tie walking around trying to sell damage waiver to people while simultaneously taking reservations for cars that you don't currently have on your lot. they tell you how much you can make but it's based on the fact that you'll be working overtime. so your workday is from like 6-6. most of enterprise rentals are insurance related. your car is in the shop and your insurance company has a contract with enterprise. so you pick the person up at the collision repair place and drive them to enterprise and then try to sell them insurance while you're at it. they already aren't happy and then now you're trying to sell them stuff. when you get to enterprise and find out that there actually is a car there for them then you are pretty happy. sometimes there isn't. then the person is even madder. then you try calling around to all of the other enterprises to see if they have any. sometimes they do but sometimes they don't. if they do then you tell the guy that his car is at a different enterprise and then you drive him over to that one. he's really, really happy by now. if no other enterprises have cars that they are willing to give you then you basically just have to wait and hope that someone returns one really soon. you also start calling the auto body shops close by to see if maybe someone just returned the car there when they were picking up their car. all the while you have to continue taking reservations for cars. someone wants a car in in two hours and you don't have any? oh yea sure no problem. a mid-size at 3pm sir. yes sir, no problem. just horrible.
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« Reply #38 on: April 11, 2013, 02:44:49 PM »
I met Rick Daris one time and he would not shut up about his stupid rental car job he had. Do not want to hear about it again

i used to work at a rental car place and now i have a good paying job and im so much better for it  :blah: :blah: :blah:

So annoying

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« Reply #39 on: April 11, 2013, 02:50:10 PM »
let me just say that Avis Preferred / Budget RapidRez is the absolute BITB. You just show up and bypass the counter and get straight into your car and drive away. I mean every time it happens it makes me smile.

hertz #1 gold and national executive club also do this.  national is the best because you just pick whatever car you want and drive it away.

I have status with Hertz and National. I prefer Hertz. They text me a the car I'm given before I arrive at the airport and I can then request a different one if I don't like it. I'm on a pretty good run of getting a small SUV when booking an intermediate. when will the ride end? man, don't know. hold onto your hats folks.

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« Reply #40 on: April 11, 2013, 02:50:55 PM »
Hertz and Enterprise usually have lower rates than National for the same cars in my experience. My company may just have lower negotiated rates with them though.

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« Reply #41 on: April 11, 2013, 02:59:12 PM »
the first and only time i rented a car was when i was waiting on my car to be repaired. it was a 5 day rental and on day 4 or so MHK had a mild hail storm and the car had a little hail damage plus i ramped that puppy on a curb pretty good.

when i returned it enterprise told me i owed them $450 for the damage and i told them no way because all the other cars on the lot had a little hail damage and asked to speak to a manager. after waiting 15 minutes the same guy came back out and told me not to worry about the hail damage and i was good to go. pretty great rental car story if you ask me.
I think what my friend Mitch is trying to say is that true love is blind.

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« Reply #42 on: April 11, 2013, 03:12:55 PM »
airport car rental places are different beasts then non airport car rental places. def not potatoh/potato. more like potato/car rental place.

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« Reply #43 on: April 11, 2013, 03:14:55 PM »
no. you don't manage an enterprise immediately. you are just one of the several workers there wearing a suit and tie walking around trying to sell damage waiver to people while simultaneously taking reservations for cars that you don't currently have on your lot. they tell you how much you can make but it's based on the fact that you'll be working overtime. so your workday is from like 6-6. most of enterprise rentals are insurance related. your car is in the shop and your insurance company has a contract with enterprise. so you pick the person up at the collision repair place and drive them to enterprise and then try to sell them insurance while you're at it. they already aren't happy and then now you're trying to sell them stuff. when you get to enterprise and find out that there actually is a car there for them then you are pretty happy. sometimes there isn't. then the person is ever madder. then you try calling around to all of the other enterprises to see if they have any. sometimes they do but sometimes they don't. if they do then you tell the guy that his car is at a different enterprise and then you drive him over to that one. he's really, really happy by now. if no other enterprises have cars that they are willing to give you then you basically just have to wait and hope that someone returns one really soon. you also start calling the auto body shops close by to see if maybe someone just returned the car there when they were picking up their car. all the while you have to continue taking reservations for cars. someone wants a car in in two hours and you don't have any? oh yea sure no problem. a mid-size at 3pm sir. yes sir, no problem. just horrible.

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« Reply #44 on: April 11, 2013, 03:16:00 PM »
let me just say that Avis Preferred / Budget RapidRez is the absolute BITB. You just show up and bypass the counter and get straight into your car and drive away. I mean every time it happens it makes me smile.

hertz #1 gold and national executive club also do this.  national is the best because you just pick whatever car you want and drive it away.

I have status with Hertz and National. I prefer Hertz. They text me a the car I'm given before I arrive at the airport and I can then request a different one if I don't like it. I'm on a pretty good run of getting a small SUV when booking an intermediate. when will the ride end? man, don't know. hold onto your hats folks.

yup, very much like when i worked there 10 years ago. hertz = no problems + best cars - hassle.


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« Reply #45 on: April 11, 2013, 03:21:51 PM »
you turkey whackers wouldn't know a good car rental place if it sold you damage waiver and then punched you in the face and ran over you with a chevy cobalt. what a stupid message board.  :flush:
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« Reply #46 on: April 11, 2013, 03:23:49 PM »
The folks at the Avis place in Tel Aviv totally tried to scam me but I busted them.  They dealt with me quite fairly after that.

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« Reply #47 on: April 11, 2013, 03:41:15 PM »
airport car rental places are different beasts then non airport car rental places. def not potatoh/potato. more like potato/car rental place.

quick Q: who would ever need to rent a car from a non-airport?

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« Reply #48 on: April 11, 2013, 03:42:46 PM »
airport car rental places are different beasts then non airport car rental places. def not potatoh/potato. more like potato/car rental place.

quick Q: who would ever need to rent a car from a non-airport?

people who need car repairs

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« Reply #49 on: April 11, 2013, 03:51:57 PM »
Doesn't your insurance just handle that for you?