Is this crazy or what?
I'm looking into renting a car in San Francisco for 6 days in June and I have discovered something amazing.
If you go to www.hertz.co.uk and get a quote for the cheapest car (Hyundai Accent or similar) from 13th-19th June, you should get a price of 109 of your British pounds. And that includes Loss Damage Wavier and all that marlarky.
Alternatively, you can go to www.hertz.com and enter the same dates, location and car. This will give you a quote of $279.78 but this does not include liability insurance, LDW or personal accident insurance. I wouldn't want to go without these things as you never know what will happen if you smash up a rental car without full coverage, and this brings up the grand total to $438.48 for the pleasure.
Even at the current poor state of the dollar (worth 53 pence at the last count) this is more than twice as much as the quote from the British site.
What is going on?
posted by Claire @ 9:44 pm
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Presumably more people in America than in Britain want to hire cars in Frisco. Ergo, by the law of supply and demand...
Hey, this economics business is easy.
It's so crazy it Hertz.
Sorry.
Surely the `demand' should refer to where you intend to drive the car, not where you are located when you hire it. Especially in the age of the interweb.
By Henry's Law of Car Economics, if no-one else in my street wants to buy a Mercedes, the dealership down the road will sell it to me for the price of a bunch of grapes.
So the moral is, always live near poor people.
Funnily enough, a Mercedes in Jerusalem costs precisely a bunch of grapes.
That kind of discrepancy is indeed anomalous.
Or do I mean alamonous?
Truly Houstonishing that such an Austintatious car should cost so little. It keeps me aWaco at night.
I hear that the grapes in Israel are very juicy.
I see I'm the only one in this punning war to slavishly remain on-topic.
It isn't a very fertile topic. Henry and I were trying to budge it to more interesting pastures.
David has been encouraging me to pun Europcar.
However, that's always going to be a fairly amateur op, carving up words in a contrived way.
Probably not even worth trying.
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