Hertz - Preferred address on Hertz profile boosts my rate !

I dont know how this is connected, but when I selected my home address (germany) as my preferred address then the rates go up by at least 30% for my USA rentals !

Does anyone have a similar experience ?

How can Hertz justify that ? I use the same codes etc just another profile address as "preferred" while my U.S. one is still in the profile for the credit card.

:mad:

I dont know how this is connected, but when I selected my home address (germany) as my preferred address then the rates go up by at least 30% for my USA rentals !

Does anyone have a similar experience ?

How can Hertz justify that ? I use the same codes etc just another profile address as "preferred" while my U.S. one is still in the profile for the credit card.

:mad:

is it anything to do with the system assuming you are european and including all the insurance options for the vehicle ...ergo a US citzen booking a US car hire gets a flat-rate quote and adds insurance as and if required.

is it anything to do with the system assuming you are european and including all the insurance options for the vehicle ...ergo a US citzen booking a US car hire gets a flat-rate quote and adds insurance as and if required.

That explains it very well, but doesnt make much sense. My car rentals are covered over my Business Credit Card Policy. Who are they that they decide flat to force you into their insurance packages !?

Well, I will just switch my profiles back and forth then. :o

That explains it very well, but doesnt make much sense. My car rentals are covered over my Business Credit Card Policy. Who are they that they decide flat to force you into their insurance packages !?

Well, I will just switch my profiles back and forth then. :o

to be fair it's a great improvement for me to what was available years ago. in those days you were quoted some cheap rate and then got hit for the insurance when you picked the car up ( the worse scenario was how many UK travellers were driving around the US with inadequate insurance?)

in essence very few people in the UK would have alternative insurance options already covering the hire of a car.

I dont know how this is connected, but when I selected my home address (germany) as my preferred address then the rates go up by at least 30% for my USA rentals !

Does anyone have a similar experience ?
:mad:

I've had the same experience with Hertz, and it is not connected with insurance coverage at all! Hertz appears to 'tailor' their offers to renters from some countries, with oddities such as:
- Priuses not available to Swiss renters in SFO: selecting one then logging on dumps me into a green collection (i.e. non hybrid) Camry :confused:
- much higher (unreasonably so) rates on more basic cars, lower rates on premium cars, for Swiss renters compared to e.g. UK renters, with exactly the same insurance coverage, this with all the CDP's I tried.

It is certainly advantageous to have addresses in more than one country if at all possible.

Using a non-US CDP usually adds the insurance coverage (CDW + liability) a US renter would already have through his/her own policies and credit cards, at better than add-on-later rates.