When Claude Hite was evacuated from the Olympic National Park during a dangerous storm, he left his Thrifty rental car behind him.
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U-Haul Keel-Hauled Over Gas Charges
By 10.9.06
Everyone hates U-Haul lately. From booking appointments and then not honoring them to charging you for canceling bookings that you didn’t want, the company tops our long list of scummy corporations.
Widows Pays AT&T $14,000 for Rotary Rental
By 9.15.06
It’s a testament to the anachronistic nature of my family that I — a hot, sexy male in my late 20’s — can operate a rotary phone with aplomb. A dusty, rotary wall phone with a hypnotic whirring click was present in my kitchen up until my late teens, when it suddenly and sadly gave up its ghost.
Alamo Passes On Charges for Imaginary Parking Tickets
By 8.15.06
When a $60 buck fine was billed to his credit card for a recent Alamo rental, Matt. A was confused: “I thought those suckers told me I didn’t owe them any money when I returned it?”
Young Urban Professionals Think Paying High NYC Rents Unfair
By 7.21.06
The New York Times has a fascinating article about what it’s like to try to find an apartment in that Mecca of Self-Entitlement, New York City.
Help A Consumerist: What Netflix Alternative?
By 7.20.06
It’s not always bitch bitch bitch here at the Consumerist, so we like to turn over a thread to readers looking for some practical consumer advice every once and a while. Maumita writes:
UPDATE: Hertz Hatin’ On The Boroughs Too
By 6.13.06
Hey, it’s not just me and Dollar Rent-A-Car that hates the Boroughs and everything their denizenship of loudmouthed bozos and doofus hipsters stands for. Hertz does too!
Dollar-Rent-a-Car Hatin’ On the Boroughs
By 6.12.06
Dan thinks Dollar-Rent-A-Car is a bigot, hating jews, minorities and filthy liberals. Otherwise, how can you explain item 1.O from their rental policy?
Enterprise-Rent-A-Car Eyed For Placement on Teeny Cement Blocks
By 5.16.06
Into Jeremy’s mailbox came a letter inviting him to join a class action lawsuit against Enterprise-Rent-A-Car.
Enterprise’s Cheat Sheet For Snookering You Into Car Insurance
By 5.4.06
What’s Enterprise hiding under that big brown bag their cars are wrapped in? According to this report, it could be their intent to humiliate you into buying car insurance.
Avis Has Compact Tact Available But Not Car…
By 4.25.06 — Updated: 9.8.16
A complaint and a tip, all in one email, what a happy day, albeit not one for Avis car rental.
Bad Landlords: ‘We Were Dolls in Her Dollhouse’
By 3.1.06
Trembicky has a very very bad landlord story that sounds like a prelude to a chainsaw massacre.
