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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Car Rental Companies: Are There Any SPECIAL Ones?
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 23:27:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 23:27:00 1985
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>  - Availability of cars with manual transmission.  I assume the
>    reason that this is rare (if not non-existent) is that a significant
>    part of the population doesn't know how to drive a stick, but
>    there must be somebody who has 'em.

Some do have a few.  Watch out for the bait-and-switch scam, though.
Say you reserve a stick shift vehicle XXX, but when you arrive they tell
you "sorry, we don't have one on the lot, you'll have to take YYY
instead".  The catch is that YYY costs $ZZZ more.  This happened to me,
but I got the XXX rental rate by being insistent.

When pressed, the clerk admitted that the agency got far more
reservations for the smaller vehicle (due to the lower price) than they
actually had available.  Classic bait-and-switch.

Alan Silverstein


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