{"id":38903,"date":"2016-12-23T00:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-car-hire-company-leaves-customers-with-worthless-bookings\/"},"modified":"2016-12-23T00:59:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:59:33","slug":"london-car-hire-company-leaves-customers-with-worthless-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-car-hire-company-leaves-customers-with-worthless-bookings\/","title":{"rendered":"London car hire company leaves customers with worthless bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThousands face being stranded during Christmas period as Atlaschoice fails to pay firms providing actual cars Thousands of consumers may be holding worthless car hire bookings for the Christmas period after the company they booked through, Atlaschoice, apparently failed to pay firms providing the actual cars.Customers of the car hire website have reported being told at car hire desks that their booking would not be honoured unless they paid again \u2013 in some cases many hundreds of pounds \u2013 because Atlas had not paid the car\u2019s actual provider. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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