Maybe someone can explain why a car rental company set rates the way they do?
I was visiting an outlet center on Long Island and my travel plans changed as an opportunity to open a new store in Westbrook, CT came about. So my travel plans changed and my flight out changed from Islip to Boston. So I needed to change the drop off location of my rental car.
To change the rental agreement to return the car to Boston a couple of days later, the rental company wanted $350. (Which matched the cost of the week long rental.) However, being one who likes to SAVE money, I looked into a new rental at competing rental companies.
A two day, one way rental was going to be $88.
88 dollars versus 350???
Curiosity got the better of me, I even got this $88 quote from the same Car Rental company.
Now I want an explanation of how this makes sense. When I returned the car to the airport location the Lead Sales agent at the counter explained me that it was because of the bad economy! I'm not kidding.
To me it looks like an opportunity to take advantage of a customer, whose travel plans changed abruptly, trying collect more money than they would charge for a new rental agreement.
By the way, the store in Kittery, Maine looks fantastic.
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