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Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
Dear dear no paper with Alamo, do you rent in Kirghiztan, ?
"W" a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion : ... Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental car company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away with minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental cars is the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated time. How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut down on that? -- W |
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Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
wrote in message ... On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:01:12 -0400, "- Bobb -" wrote: "We do check the car for damage ourselves " ME too . I have never had an attendant make note of 'the scratch on the trunk' or 'the scrape on the rear passenger tire', etc. Well worth a few minutes. I always pull into the light and check the entire surface - just to make sure that I'm not spending money for "damage", before I even leave the garage. We always click off some shots with a digital camera before driving off. The permanent record could be valuable. -- Larry But those pictures could have been taken 3 minutes before you returned it. To make sure, it HAS to be ON the paperwork and OK by them BEFORE you leave the lot, otherwise it's 'your fault', right ? " It wasn't there BEFORE , sir. It says right here "no damage" and you agreed. and now there is damage. " Tough to argue that point. Happens frequently in Orlando. They're good at it. As always - ' get it in writing' . But I think getting off topic from original " how to rent easily ?" |
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:30:20 -0400, "- Bobb -"
wrote: But those pictures could have been taken 3 minutes before you returned it. True but it could still help. To make sure, it HAS to be ON the paperwork and OK by them BEFORE you leave the lot, otherwise it's 'your fault', right ? " It wasn't there BEFORE , sir. It says right here "no damage" and you agreed. and now there is damage. " Tough to argue that point. Happens frequently in Orlando. They're good at it. As always - ' get it in writing' . But I think getting off topic from original " how to rent easily ?" And no thread on usenet ever wanders? G |
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Rental Pass Card That Bypasses Paperwork?
"DevilsPGD" wrote in message
... In message Brian was claimed to have wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:13 -0700, "W" wrote: Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental car company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away with minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental cars is the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated time. How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut down on that? An American Express Platinum card gives higher level membership with several car rental companies including Avis and Hertz. You still have to fill out your name, address, blah blah blah, right? I'm guessing the goal here is to skip all of that, do it once in advance and have a card/account/whatever that allows the rental car company to pull all of your information, print a pre-completed form that you sign and leave the rental car place in under 5 minutes. An added bonus would be if the rental car company handed you a damage inspection form with the known damage to that car already printed on the form based on the last time the card was returned instead of going out to the car every time to see what the current droid happens to notice might be wrong. If you notice anything that was missed you'd add it to the form and take it back in to update the record, but for reputable places that properly document damage on cars, this would be unnecessary in 99% of cases. Unfortunately until one rental car company discovers that speeding things up for frequent renters will save them time (and that time is money) or will encourage renters to choose them, the whole industry will be content redoing the same paperwork over and over and over and over. You understand what I was requesting. Amazing that this does not exist. -- W |
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"DevilsPGD" wrote in message
... In message Brian was claimed to have wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:13 -0700, "W" wrote: Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental car company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away with minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental cars is the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated time. How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut down on that? An American Express Platinum card gives higher level membership with several car rental companies including Avis and Hertz. You still have to fill out your name, address, blah blah blah, right? I'm guessing the goal here is to skip all of that, do it once in advance and have a card/account/whatever that allows the rental car company to pull all of your information, print a pre-completed form that you sign and leave the rental car place in under 5 minutes. An added bonus would be if the rental car company handed you a damage inspection form with the known damage to that car already printed on the form based on the last time the card was returned instead of going out to the car every time to see what the current droid happens to notice might be wrong. If you notice anything that was missed you'd add it to the form and take it back in to update the record, but for reputable places that properly document damage on cars, this would be unnecessary in 99% of cases. Unfortunately until one rental car company discovers that speeding things up for frequent renters will save them time (and that time is money) or will encourage renters to choose them, the whole industry will be content redoing the same paperwork over and over and over and over. This appears to be what we are looking for: https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/pro...ividualAccount Look at "Fastbreak" option. -- W |
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:50:44 -0700, DevilsPGD
wrote: You still have to fill out your name, address, blah blah blah, right? Where, at the airport? No. I'm guessing the goal here is to skip all of that, do it once in advance and have a card/account/whatever that allows the rental car company to pull all of your information, print a pre-completed form that you sign and leave the rental car place in under 5 minutes. We have once we got to where the cars are located. Some places we have to walk to the garage. Other places require a shuttle trip. An added bonus would be if the rental car company handed you a damage inspection form with the known damage to that car already printed on the form based on the last time the card was returned instead of going out to the car every time to see what the current droid happens to notice might be wrong. If you notice anything that was missed you'd add it to the form and take it back in to update the record, but for reputable places that properly document damage on cars, this would be unnecessary in 99% of cases. That would be helpful. Unfortunately until one rental car company discovers that speeding things up for frequent renters will save them time (and that time is money) or will encourage renters to choose them, the whole industry will be content redoing the same paperwork over and over and over and over. Or maybe things have changed in the last couple months, we don't rent much in the summer. |
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On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 18:46:46 -0700, "W"
wrote: This appears to be what we are looking for: https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/pro...ividualAccount Look at "Fastbreak" option. Unfortunately it means renting from Budget. |
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In message Brian
was claimed to have wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 18:46:46 -0700, "W" wrote: This appears to be what we are looking for: https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/pro...ividualAccount Look at "Fastbreak" option. Unfortunately it means renting from Budget. That's a nicer way then I was capable of writing to express the same sentiment. |
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"W" wrote in message ... "DevilsPGD" wrote in message ... In message Brian was claimed to have wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:13 -0700, "W" wrote: Is there any kind of membership or club card you can buy for any rental car company that lets you just show up, present the card, and drive away with minimal hassle? The most objectionable thing to me about rental cars is the amount of paperwork they make you fill out and the associated time. How can you get some arrangement with the rental car company to cut down on that? An American Express Platinum card gives higher level membership with several car rental companies including Avis and Hertz. You still have to fill out your name, address, blah blah blah, right? I'm guessing the goal here is to skip all of that, do it once in advance and have a card/account/whatever that allows the rental car company to pull all of your information, print a pre-completed form that you sign and leave the rental car place in under 5 minutes. An added bonus would be if the rental car company handed you a damage inspection form with the known damage to that car already printed on the form based on the last time the card was returned instead of going out to the car every time to see what the current droid happens to notice might be wrong. If you notice anything that was missed you'd add it to the form and take it back in to update the record, but for reputable places that properly document damage on cars, this would be unnecessary in 99% of cases. Unfortunately until one rental car company discovers that speeding things up for frequent renters will save them time (and that time is money) or will encourage renters to choose them, the whole industry will be content redoing the same paperwork over and over and over and over. You understand what I was requesting. Amazing that this does not exist. -- W IIRC, the Hertz gold card does what you're looking for. I know that the last time I rented from Hertz the shuttle dropped the gold card renters off right at their cars and then took the rest of us to the office to fill out our paperwork. I used to belong to that Hertz club but let my membership expire when I stopped renting so often. I believe that my Alamo membership had the same type of setup but I'm not sure. Been a long time ago. -- Gary Visit our website and do the jigsaw puzzle at www.under-1-roof.com/PuzzlePage.html |
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