‘Holiday Autos’ Car Rental Scam – South Africa
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‘Holiday Autos’ Car Rental Scam – South Africa
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Do you know that feeling of disappointment when your rental car was not the Toyota Land Cruiser suggested by the booking form, but a Hyundai Tucson! Well, my holidayautos.com -nightmare did not end in that: when driving up the Sani Pass in South Africa – a road strictly for 4x4s – I discovered that the Tucson was not a 4×4 at all, but a front-wheel-drive! At that stage, unfortunately, it was too late and the car had to be towed from the mountain pass…After my otherwise nice vacation, I was of course expecting some sort of an apology and reimbursement from Holidayautos, but the customer service (after 5 weeks of waiting) denied mistake from their part, any reimbursement was denied, and I was even accused of negligent driving! I am pasting the customer service responses below…but can’t believe a big name like Holidayautos can be such a scam! Googling for customer reviews, everybody seemed to have a really bad experience with this company.
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September 2nd, 2010 at 2:06 am
This is the car booking form: explicitly saying it is a 4×4, e.g. a Land Cruiser
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September 2nd, 2010 at 2:08 am
The first "customer service" response (after 5 weeks of waiting):
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"The vehicle booked online was correctly described as an SUV, no reference to a 4×4 was made. In this respect, you were therefore provided with the correct category of vehicle, the prefix of 4 denotes number of doors, and no refund for the difference is due.
Furthermore, the photograph provided confirms the serious off road nature of the track. And we would advise that this contravenes our Terms and Conditions extract as follows:
"Where any rental vehicle has been driven off-road, on un-tarmacked roads, without due care and attention or negligently "
Under the circumstances, we regret that we are unable to comply with your requested reimbursement."
(As you can see from the ‘Car Rental Guide’ above, the customer service response is simply not true – the rental guide explicitly says that my booking class is a 4×4 SUV.)
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:26 am
What’s even more bizarre, the 2. customer service response puts the blame on Europcar. All cars from ‘Holiday Autos’ are actually brokered by a "real" rental car company, such as Europcar, and they just hand out the cars according to the booking class…They’ve done nothing wrong. The scam business model of Holiday Autos is based on misleading information on e.g. price, car class and rental conditions – this is very clear from all the angry customer reviews on various internet sites.
"Thank you for your recent correspondence.
Having studied all previous correspondence, I note that you have some concerns with the vehicle booked and provided by our rental partner Europcar.
Unfortunately, I regret that a refund will not be forthcoming on this occasion as the vehicle booked was provided by Europcar.
In closing, I regret my response cannot be more favourable, but hope the above information has been of assistance."
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:36 am
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called KIA HYUNDAI GALLERY, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
That’s really disappointing!
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:50 am
Jack – Awesome Truth – Looking forward to what you have to share. Hopefully it will benfit us all.
September 2nd, 2010 at 3:25 am
Jack–great job on these videos–I think anyone doing anything on line can benefit from them
September 2nd, 2010 at 4:23 am
At last someone is prepared to honestly show how to make money on teh Internet for thos eprepared to work for it.
Thank you.
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:12 am
Sorry still not getting any audio
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:28 am
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