1 reviews | Active since Jan 2018
Overcharge and ********* practice
I have been a long term car renter with Hertz. As of today, my balance was +R10'000 in my favor.
I always renewed my rental for a month, at each month end For a reason I don't know, the rental was until the 29 of Jan, 2018 and not the 31th of Jan as I expected.
I received a call today from Hertz asking if I wanted to extend my rental. I said yes. They contacted me 30min later to say the payment didn't went thru. I answered to wait after work so I can load my credit card (I can't do a wire transfer).
They asked me to pay immediately or the risk department will tow the car. I asked them to take the amount from the overpaid, and said they can't.
15 min later, the risk department was at my car. I went to them and gave them the vehicle keys.
I then contacted Hertz to ask them if I could get a new contract starting from tomorrow. There answer was as follow:
"Unfortunately not, because our risk department had to collect the vehicle you will not be able to rent from us again.| Also note there is R3274.52 outstanding on the rental, this amount is for recovery fee, overdue fee, valet and fuel."
I found this practice disrespectful and unfair, as I asked to wait for 3-4h for me to load the credit card being at work. But also for the fact that Im now in more black listed (while I have never pay late) and the fees are astronomical.
During the rental period, there was also a lot of over payment taken from my credit card, explaining the balance in my favor of +R10'000
In more, when I asked them to refund me this amount, they told me once the contract will be closed.
They also changed the rental price unilaterally, without informing me, until I realized checking my bank account.
Finally, the time to get a response from them regarding the over payment was 3 months. They barely assisted me until I escalated to the regional manager, who was not very involved.
For all these reasons, I wouldn't recommend to anyone to rent with Hertz. To my experience they have bad commercial practices, don't have a problem to over charge you, decide when they will refund you and rush (same day in a 2h window) to tow your car unable to wait 3-4h for the payment to go through.
If you want take the risk, its your decision.
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