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Recently we rented a car from Alamo in Vegas. The salesman at the counter gave me a really hard sell that any damages would be billed directly to the credit card and not handled by insurance because "this is Nevada.' When I said that we have primary coverage through our credit card, he said, "we don't take insurance anymore."
I ignored him and declined their extortion price of $26/day insurance, but he had me wondering if I had gotten in an accident, would we be covered by the primary insurance on our chase reserve credit card (which would be the same card they would bill.)
Any thoughts on this? or is this just the latest sales gimmick to convince us to buy insurance we don't need?
Not a gimmick . . . not just Vegas . . . and NOT FUN!
We had a very minor bump with our rental car in Scotland back in March. We waived the rental company's coverage because we do have excellent coverage with our credit card AND we had coverage via our travel insurance policy as well. We immediately reported our bump on the back end and they told us to continue on with our rental (we had about 10 more days).
When we returned it, they deducted the full amount of the estimated damages (just under $700) . . . and we were left to handle it with VISA's carrier. They were very helpful on the front end . . . but!
They would not pay based on what we were charged when we returned the car on 3/30/18 . . . they are requiring the completed repair services invoice. So now we've been chasing Avis/Budget for about 6 weeks and to no avail regarding getting the actual repair bill for the damages incurred. Given it is in the UK that adds to the challenges . . . they told us we'd have the receipt as required, within 15 business days. Still nothing. So we've tried through the USA contact for Avis/Budget. They said they would get it resolved immediately . . . and here we are two more weeks later.
I am fearful we'll be SOL on this $700!