The outrageous story I am about to tell you is ABSOLUTELY true, and I hope it makes you seriously re-think renting from this embarrassing company!
I reserved a car back in January, 2017 for my trip to State College. I arrived today, ready to pick up my car, and I was told they had NO CARS available in their fleet! Seriously?! As a consolation, I was told that the branch manager of this location, Merritt A. Sosnoskie worked out some kind of deal with Avis, next door, that for $158/day I could rent for them and the branch manager would pick up the tab for the difference. Really? I have my rental with Alamo scheduled for 7 days and I am only paying $188 for that 7-day period. Avis was offering me the $158 per day rental for 7 days for a WHOPPING $1,106 authorization on my card. Uh, I really don't think so.
I was kind of given the run around on the questions I asked. I was told by the rental agent that he did not know WHEN or IF I would get a car, because they have the next day's rentals to go through and so on. I was told the car would be delivered to my hotel, and all I had to do was to call with my credit card number to authorize it. NO additional compensation was mentioned for this OBSCENE inconvenience...something like $50 off my rental cost or a free day would be very nice, but these people don't really seem to give a shit.
I texted Merritt on his cell phone, from the number off of his photocopied business card... and guess what... HE IGNORED ME. One would THINK, as the manager, he would have stayed at the location to help sort this giant mess out, because clearly the rental agent walked into a mess and didn't know what he was doing (he told me that himself). This proves to me and the dozen other people that were screwed over today, that he really does not give a shit about his customers who have exisiting reservations, to accommodate them.
This branch and branch manager have until tomorrow morning, Wednesday May 10 to sort this out and get me a car...otherwise, I am taking this matter as far as I have to, including contacting the CEO. I am absolutely furious at the extremely poor management and the lack of customer empathy this location has. I may rent from another car rental company from now on, which is too bad, because I really enjoyed my time with Alamo. They just don't seem to care whatsoever. read more