Jeezzzzzzzz I just overpaid on a U-Haul!!

I am moving tomorrow to a city about an hour away from where I am now. It all sort of fell together within the past week or so, so I just rented the truck today.

I was happy to discover that U-Hauls are available to rent from a little store across the street and way down the lane from me. I was just searching the site to see where I could drop it off at and discovered that I paid about $100 more than most other U-Hauls in the area. Ugh.

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i think their prices are set... this might be an issue to bring up with the company...

shopping north west PA and south west ny

Making that kind of discovery is a bummer. But I do not think their prices are set because they are franchised and I think they have flexibility. We learned with rental cars that the same place (Enterprise) can have very different prices within a few miles of each other. I'd get one quote from one, another from another, then call the first one back and tell them what the other place said and they'd give me that price. The one nice thing about having paid too much is that that experience is now over and you never have to repeat it because you learned a lesson! That's the way I look at it when I could kick myself over something. If I do it a second time, though, then I'm just plain mad at myself.

They do have fleixibility. I returned it this morning to a different business that rents U-Hauls. When he was processing my return, the manager thought I rented something else because their rental price for the exact same truck is $90 less than I paid.

I just re-read what I wrote. I meant to say that I think their prices AREN'T set and that they have flexibility. The way my sentence read did not make any sense. But hey, I was off-duty!

lisams901 Wrote:
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> They do have fleixibility. I returned it this
> morning to a different business that rents
> U-Hauls. When he was processing my return, the
> manager thought I rented something else because
> their rental price for the exact same truck is $90
> less than I paid.

I'm going to have to rent one at the end of the month.
Thanks for the thread to remind me to shop. I think I'm going to just need a $29.99 one for the day so some kids from church can help me move to my brother's house.

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Is his house in the same city?

I would have been able to use one of the cheaper ones, but I was moving an hour away so they said even though I only needed the small one, I could not have the small one.

I never knew they didn't have corporately-set pricing, either. Thanks for posting this! I didn't know that about Enterprise, either.

I DID learn from someone who had a bad experience with Enterprise that your best bet is to go around the car with the associate before you ever leave the lot, and take pictures of every single blemish on the car. They tried to say my friend damaged the rental and she did not have documentation to prove otherwise. This is good advice whatever the company.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/10/2011 02:02AM by TechSavvy.

TechSavvy Wrote:
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> I never knew they didn't have corporately-set
> pricing, either. Thanks for posting this! I didn't
> know that about Enterprise, either.
>
> I DID learn from someone who had a bad experience
> with Enterprise that your best bet is to go around
> the car with the associate before you ever leave
> the lot, and take pictures of every single blemish
> on the car. They tried to say my friend damaged
> the rental and she did not have documentation to
> prove otherwise. This is good advice whatever the
> company.

I once rented a $19.99 U haul van to move within the city. Borrowed the truck b4 10 am and brought it back b4 6pm, All which was part of the comtract. (Overnight would of cost more.)

I'm just saying a 19.99 origimal cost wind up being a $49 payout.

I totally agree with TS about examining a rental car to its fullest b4 taking the car off the lot. Inside the car as well as outside and in the trunk.

I even check to make sure the car comes with a locked gas cap. The cost of gas makes this necessity necessary.

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