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Complaint Review: zipcar - Internet

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  • Reported By: gsmac — Natick Massachusetts USA
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Zipcar Abusive Charges Newton Massachusetts

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So I reserved a Civic using the app. The price was around 9.50 paper hour. I received an email about the reservation, with no price on  it - like I am used to receive all the time.


Every time I reserved a zipcar since May/14 I would get a discount per day, so let's say a car at 9.50 would cost at the end of the day around 80 - 90 dollars. First reservation was from 2pm to 5 pm on a sunday.

So I was with the car and had no data working on my phone and needed to extend the reservation. So I sent an message to extend the reservation. All well, like before.. And then again, I needed the car for more time. And so I did, until 10am the next day.

Later on the same day I decided to make it a 24h reservation and to my surprise it would claim that my card couldn't be charged.. I thought it was weird because I already had reserved more than enough to get the whole 24h with no extra cost and also knew my credit card limit. When I finally got data access, I was chocked: a total of 155 dollars charged!

This is an absurd, I've always rented zipcar and never ever had problems like this.

I wrote them an e-mail and they replied me saying they wouldn't refund for I rented a car that is charged by the hour, not by the day. When I booked the car there was absolutely nothing different on the e-mail or confirmation, nor on the website, not even on the text message. I am sure about this. If zipcar has cars that are rented per hour  they must be properly communicated to the customer and not induce the customer to error like I was.

I've spent thousands of dollars on the Zipcar since May/14 and I am sure this type of issue never happened. I remember renting cars per hour and it was completely clear: they had huge adhesives around it and the booking was different than with the Civic that I got.
 
Zipcar claims it is my responsibility to check the pricing but I didn't book everything at once. I booked 3h then 5h and so on, using the sms and not the app. It didn't update costs or anything. That's my concern and why I am complaining about the price. I honestly think that Zipcar induced me to the error when it didn't update prices on sms. The confirmation for email, doesn't update the prices either. It is definitely not clear at all and I honestly believe that Zipcar is inducing the user to error by using such practice. I've been charged also for delivering the car 3 minutes late, they never refunded. Now, this?
 
Worse, the money that they overcharged me I was supposed to use for food and transportation. Now I am broke. Thanks a lot, Zipcar. Hope this website helps me settle this problem.

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