AVIS Rent A Car Budget Rent A Car (Airport - Laredo) Avoid Budget at Laredo Airport ! Laredo Texas

A week after we thought was our closed-out and _inspected_ handing in our rental (in which NO damage whatsoever was noted) to Budget /  Avis at the Laredo Airport offsite location, we received a $4000+ "damage claim" from AVIS for suppossedly visible colision damage to the driver's side.

While we strongly dispute this "damage" as having occured while in our pocession, the rougly $1K "loss of use" and "administrative" fees were (of course) not covered by our credit card rental car coverage - this would come out of our pockets.   It would have been far more than $1K to contest this in a court of law, especially since we are from our-of-town and this would have been contested in either Laredo or Corpus Christi.

I wonder how many others have been similarly scammed with these shady business practices ?

Moral of the story:    Avoid Budget aka AVIS Rent A Car at the Laredo International Airport like the plague !