We’ve had a Hertz reservation on hold for a couple of months. It was for a two-day rental from Newark, NJ and I booked through a Priceline link from Autoslash. I’ve been tracking the rental, and I’d get an alert about a lower price every few days.
Eventually, I received an alert about a lower price from Hertz, but we didn’t book it because it was for a Tesla (Here’s why I didn’t want to rent an EV for this trip). I stuck with the initial reservation, even if it was a few dollars more, because I wanted to use President Circle status to skip the counter.
Here’s a breakdown of the original price quote:
When I arrived in Newark, my name was on the Hertz board with instructions to pick a car from the President Circle area. I drove to the exit gate where I received my rental agreement. I also received an email with the breakdown of rental charges.
My $169 rental was now $128.
The biggest changes are a lower daily rate ($50 instead of $52.48) and a $25 promotional coupon. The other differences are the service charges & taxes, which are $10 less (some of which can be attributed to the lower rental amount.)
I’ve tried but I can’t determine where the $25 off came from. I’m not complaining but I want to know if I can use it again. Based on experience, I’m worried when unknown discounts show up on rentals.
I’m not going to worry about it. My only regret is that I didn’t know about the discounted price sooner. I wouldn’t have kept trying to find a lower rate if I did.
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4 comments
It says PC 210805. I applied it to some dummy reservations and seem to get 25% off. Looks like that code has been around for some time – I found a 2017 FlyerTalk thread where someone asked about it – but no one could identify what it was.
Be careful that Hertz doesn’t (re)adjust your invoice and then put out an arrest warrant for you, claiming that you owe them money. Only half joking.
Now they’ll send u to jail for paying less. Enjoy!
Be careful, that’s their prelude to arresting you.