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Old Sep 23, 2008 | 3:39 pm
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Originally Posted by mbstone
You are in the ballpark as far as the bid amount.

There are other threads about credit cards/CDW/PL that you'll have to search for. I would put both the PL bid and the deposit on the same CC just in case.

The traffic between SAN and LAX probably won't go fast enough for you to be at risk of a serious accident
Originally Posted by Colfax
Since you need the car tomorrow and only have one chance to bid you don't really have time for lowball bids and $11/day = $77/week sounds lowball to me when the best conventional rate is $260/week.

If you get accepted at $18/day that would still be less than half the best conventional rate.
Hmm. What's interesting is when my last convertible bid failed and I tried to play around with rebidding on a standard, it actually SUGGESTED $10-$11. SO I assumed that was what it would take, no?

Let me ask the bidding experts, if I bid on a Convertible at $32 and lose and then rebid for a standard at $11 and lose, can I still change my car type again and try again? Or is two bid the max per day?
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