If I could, I would leave negative stars! What I have endured with AVIS is the worst customer…read moreservice ever in my entire life. It all started with my rental booking through booking.com. I rented the car and wanted to extend it. I was then told at the airport, that they can't give me the rate that was agreed in the rental agreement, and that the system wouldn't allow to use the same code. The employee at the Airport branch blamed it on the third party (booking.com) situation and suggested to close that contract and open a new rental agreement through the AVIS app. Because it was the same day at the airport, it's needless to say that the rates were almost the double AND I had to pay another security deposit!
I booked for 2 weeks and I was assured by the employee, that now that I have booked through the AVIS app, I can extend through the app, online or even on the phone with the customer service.
On August 16th I tried to extend the rental via app, which didn't work. I used the Chat Support and they told me, because this is an international rental (I am living in the US) they can't extend it, I needed to drive to the location! My family was making vacation in Hamburg, the location is in Nuremberg. I had to drive 600 km just to EXTEND the rental!!! Needless to say that I was mad!!! Never did this happen to me with ANY other car rental company!!!
I drove on the 17th to Nuremberg (almost 7 hours with traffic jams on the autobahn) and because the location had already closed, I went there the next morning. The RA was until the 18th anyway! The same employee who rented me the car was surprised seeing me there and when I explained to him the situation, he tried to extend the car but had the same issue. He couldn't give me the rate, which was agreed in the rental agreement of € 33.15 per day including tax for additional days. His new rate was MORE than DOUBLE!!!
I was pissed!!! My family was still in Hamburg and Cologne, waiting for me to come back with the car, but AVIS wasn't able to give me the WRITTEN and AGREED rate for the extension! The employee instructed me to write a complaint and dispute the charge. I was told, that as long the investigation goes on, the charge would be put on hold.
I had to drive 1,800 km within 3 days to collect my family, had additional €177.02 fuel cost and not to mentioning the messed up family reunion vacation!!! I returned the car on the 20th and the same night I wrote the complaint, received immediately an automated email with a reference number and that the issue would be investigated. While I was waiting for a response and customer friendly solution of the issue, they now, on August 25th, pulled out the money ($751.83) out of my account while there's still NO RESPONSE to my complaint and the investigation is still going on!!!
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT AN INTERNATONAL COMPANY LIKE AVIS CANNOT EXTEND INTERNATIONAL RENTALS FOR THE SAME AGREED RATE AS STATED AND SIGNED IN THE RENTAL AGREEMENT???
NEVER DID I HAVE ANY ISSUES LIKE THAT WITH ANY OTHER COMPANY!!!
I think this is fraud, because AVIS agreed in WRITTEN to a rate and after you picked up the car they don't give you the agreed rate, make you either pay more than double of the rate, OR you have to close the contract and make a new RA, so the employee can benefit from it by getting paid commission (or other benefits), and cash in another security deposit.
I already reached out to the leadership of AVIS via email. Still haven't heard back from anyone yet!!!
Are there any legal attorneys out there to take on this case??? I am pretty sure there are more customers like me running into this issue!!!