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Re: Citibank Visa rental car insurance protection?

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <6d4jpb$n43$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Daniel Donghoon Paik <uctt@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <6d4ii6$kts$1@pebble.ml.org>,
>Joel Garry <joelga@pebble.ml.org> wrote:
>>you the option, preying on your lack of knowledge.  In my experience, 
>>Enterprise has friendlier and more helpful people than most.
>
>nah...enterprise people are like the rest of them...they try to sell you
>their insurance as much as the guy at circuit city tries to get you to buy
>their service plans....

I'm sure I'm just taken in by all those cute young women barely out of college
they put in there.  They've been real nice to me.  Maybe I remind them of 
their daddies.  :)  Business section of SD union-tribune a while back had an
article about how Enterprise was successful by applying a formula of hiring
new grads and making them managers.  The Hertz and Avis I've been to over the
last few years were close to rude, hiding behind rules (for example, Avis
wouldn't give me a car reserved by a business associate who had to cancel,
so I went over to Hertz with a coupon, and they directed me to a phone because
the coupons were only good with phone reservations.  The reserved special 
was worse than the walk-up price.  So I went back to Avis 'cause I knew they
had an extra car, and it was cheaper.  Enterprise was booked out.).

>
>last time i was there i told him i wanted to decline and he said that even
>though credit cards come with insurance sometimes it doesn't cover the
>cost of the car while it's in the shop.  so if the car is in the shop for
>a week, you have to pay for another week of rental.  dunno if it's true
>but i told him to go screw himself....and didn't opt for it.

I don't trust any of them near as far as I could throw them.  But I'm
even less a fan of insurance companies and credit companies.

>
>Dan.
>-- 
>Daniel Paik http://www.hanguk.com/uctt 
>hey, go check out http://www.hanguk.com! 
>"crude...but effective"
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From: joelga@pebble.ml.org (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Citibank Visa rental car insurance protection?
Date: 1998/02/26
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