{"id":63508,"date":"2017-08-12T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-i-took-on-a-car-hire-company-and-won\/"},"modified":"2017-08-12T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T06:36:30","slug":"how-i-took-on-a-car-hire-company-and-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-i-took-on-a-car-hire-company-and-won\/","title":{"rendered":"How I took on a car hire company \u2013 and won"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhen Goldcar added \u20ac60 to Richard Colbey\u2019s rental bill because he hadn\u2019t swept up some sand, it was time to fight backGoldcar, of all the car rental companies, features most in readers\u2019 complaints to Money\u2019s Consumer Champions. So it was with some trepidation that I defied the simple advice \u2013 \u201cdon\u2019t\u201d \u2013 and booked a car with Goldcar, for half the price offered by anyone else, in Bordeaux last month.We hired a family-sized car for a week in an area with delightful surf beaches. It must have been obvious to anyone, including the Goldcar receptionist, that my motley bunch of kids were headed to the seaside. It is equally obvious that if you take children to beaches you get sand in a car. Although I was properly warned of the costs if I caused any damage \u2013 on this occasion the insurance sales pitch was not particularly hard \u2013 nothing was said about cleaning. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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