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Ocelot II
(115,744 posts)Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)Ocelot II
(115,744 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Usually I only watch things that I think will be funny (SNL, Seth, Colbert, etc), or I because need to actually view the devastation somewhere.
Ocelot II
(115,744 posts)that I can find in print and read faster than I can watch.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Now that i think about it, I do love me some John Oliver though ... I'll watch that dude talk about just about anything
Jon Stewart too.
But if you aren't that level of talent, I'd rather just read, thanks!
stopdiggin
(11,318 posts)by some local news hack - before getting to any substance at all ...
But give me a chance to decide.
Wingus Dingus
(8,055 posts)and don't put their stories in text.
vanlassie
(5,676 posts)I just dont want to deal with them most of the time.
Raine
(30,540 posts)DBoon
(22,370 posts)a short summary is always helpful
Celerity
(43,419 posts)when a car shows 'missing' they simply report it as stolen, as it is cheaper to farm it out to the cops than to track it themselves.
Madness.
PatSeg
(47,511 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,652 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,132 posts)My sister worked for them. Crooks!
CurtEastPoint
(18,652 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,415 posts)I rent them all the time through my job and havent had any issues with them.
AwakeAtLast
(14,132 posts)Basically never paying her for the things they said they would. Never promoting as promised. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Goonch
(3,608 posts)BComplex
(8,054 posts)corporations above all else.
GoodRaisin
(8,924 posts)they tried to charge me for a car I didnt rent in Fort Wayne (during a week I was in another city). Said I returned the car late and left without paying.
They pestered me with repeated calls for over a year and wouldnt listen when I tried to explain each time they had the wrong renter. Once they turned it over to a collection agency the agency listened to me and resolved it on the first call.
Never got an apology from National, not that one was expected. They were idiots.
Mad_Machine76
(24,415 posts)I'm off to Fort Wayne tomorrow BTW
GoodRaisin
(8,924 posts)as a business traveler. So I rented from National there, just not the week they claimed I had their car - when I was actually renting from National in Louisville - lol.
DFW
(54,410 posts)Imagine you have rented a car and suddenly you see cops pointing guns at you, and you havent the slightest idea whyand then it turns out to be because of deficient software of your car rental agency!!
I rent a car exactly once a year in the USA (next year will be a big exception for our 70-70-40 event). We just take whatever the travel agency gives us if it meets our needs. But after this story, even if the chances of it happening to my family are one in ten thousand, the very fact that it CAN happen is enough to issue instructions to exclude Hertz from the pool of choices. A one-off event is bad, but repeated happenings around the country, spread out over time, are far too scary to risk even those small odds.