This case is absurd. I rent cars frequently and I know two things, 1; when you make a reservation on

Accused of adding extra charges onto rental car contracts and violating consumer protection statutes, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (DTAG) is facing class-action claims from customers that could advance to trial. According to the McKinnon and Tool v. Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group case, Sandra McKinnon and Kirsten Tool are suing the rental company for allegedly defrauding them and other customers in California and Oklahoma.
After allegedly orally declining additional services such as damage waivers and insurance, the plaintiffs claim that Dollar travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations employees misled them into checking boxes on the electric signature pad that actually added the extra services.
For example, the complaint alleges that because the agent didn t discuss the total amount charged at pickup, McKinnon was charged an additional $359.65 (from her original online reservation travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations rate) when she returned the car, according to the McKinnon opinion.
Plaintiffs suggest that defendants rely on the hustle and rush of airports to send their customers away without having reviewed their rental charges, travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations thereby giving defendants a basis for claiming that their customers travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations routinely agree to the add-on charges, according to the opinion written by U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti.
Based on plaintiffs reasonably specific pleadings, defendants have a national scheme involving providing low reservation rates and then tricking customers into paying more once they pick up their cars, according to Conti's opinion. Defendants conduct is more than mere endemic dishonesty it is actionable under the unfair competition travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations law as an unfair and fraudulent business practice.
In addition, Conti found that DTAG s online reservation confirmation should be viewed as a contract: Defendants refusal to honor the confirmation price in anyway, and in fact to convince plaintiffs of the price s validity and then alter it secretly, was a breach.
Well, lets be real here people. travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations How many of us just sign a legally binding contract without reading it? Of course, if you rent cars that often you already know what you are looking to avoid being charged, and coincidentally do not get charged these extra fees. How can you be told to buy something? ESPECIALLY if you have to sign that you AGREE. Come on people get with the times. It may be an electric screen, but if you choose not to read or can t read...i d honestly be more worried about you driving around travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations than getting one pulled over on you for not reading the fine print on a CONTRACT.
The only way i see this lawsuit as being plausible is if in the surveillancefootage at these locations actually capture some random guy (of course has to be a paid employee of Dollar/Thrifty) running up behind these people and forcing them to sign. Other than that wildly improbable chain of events, there is no reason YOU the customer are too in a hurry to read over the charges YOU will incur, unless of course like so many business travelers YOU DONT CARE. And THAT is your problem not this business. Maybe this is a new-age way to tell people to slow thier life down to review the cost-incurring things...If you cant read then you have a case...but not a court case. Seems more like a case of selective conciousness to me.
This case is absurd. I rent cars frequently and I know two things, 1; when you make a reservation online, that is not a contract and the total is only an estimated amount because taxes and fees are different everywhere and 2; the products that are so called forced on the customer are optional and you should pay attention while the agent discloses the the terms of the contract. At Dollar Thrifty you have to accept the or decline on the machine before it can be finalized. So, if you think or feel it s been forced on you, you didn t pay attention and you have to hold yourself accountable. It s your money pay attention!
Since I am a former employee of Dollar/Thrifty, I know that they add things on, trick customers and try to get things by the customer to make money. I m so glad to be out of a business that is generally dishonest all the way up to the franchise owners.
I just received a notice of having travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations a 25.5 plus $15 dollars admin. fee that was added to a rental that I had from Thrifty last year. Of course this is nonsense. The rental car was driven by myself only. I do not know of any toll fare in norther california that is 25.5 dollars. Now thrifty is asking for 115.5 dollars stating that they paid it for me.
Rome Fiumicino Airport travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations - Dec. 2013, they charged us aditional Euro 17,00 for fuel saying: this is company s new policy to charge Euro 17,00 even if the fuel tank is full ... new profit generating idea
Dubai Airport - Jan. 2014, Mr. Zubair of Dollar and his team charged us for 2 mm long crack in the windscrean though it was present at the moment of collection of the car. I noticed travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations it to late, when I was on the way from the airport to the hotel and in very heavy traffic. They did not check all the car but found targeted immediately this place of tiny damage. They are crooks and we were for sure not the first customers to be cheated.
I would like to bring a class action suit against dollar/hertz rental for defrauding me and others. Please email me with your claim. Put Car rental travel schools that teach sabre airline reservations thieves in the subject line. I want this to go to the highest level. I want to make them PAY!!! Thankyou!
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