{"id":25743,"date":"2016-09-11T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/goldcar-sells-hirers-cover-they-dont-need-or-want\/"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T06:21:38","slug":"goldcar-sells-hirers-cover-they-dont-need-or-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/goldcar-sells-hirers-cover-they-dont-need-or-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldcar sells hirers cover they don\u2019t need, or want"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAngry customers face \u2018hidden\u2019 charges for insurance policies they didn\u2019t ask forJJ-K from London booked a hire car through the website Rentalcars.com.\u201cA week was \u00a3139.91 and included collision damage waiver, third-party liability and theft protection. However, when I went to collect the car at the airport, the Spanish rental company, Goldcar, told me that this was a ringfenced deposit and that I would have to pay \u00a3206 for the hire. The agent gave me an invoice in Spanish. Assuming the total included the deposit, I signed. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Angry customers face \u2018hidden\u2019 charges for insurance policies they didn\u2019t ask forJJ-K from London booked...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-6Hd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60242,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-goldcar-golden-rule-always-take-a-photo-when-you-return-a-hire-car\/","url_meta":{"origin":25743,"position":0},"title":"The Goldcar golden rule \u2026 always take a photo when you return a hire car","date":"July 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The firm took money for damage I could prove I hadn\u2019t causedWe hired a small car for nine days from Goldcar at Malaga airport in April last year for \u20ac41.69. 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