After reading about Select on this thread, I called AVIS and asked at the beginning of summer about upgrading my Preferred since '97 to Select status. The agent told me there was a "freeze" on issuing new Select status due to a high number of rentals that were upgrading during the summer. I asked if she could see the number of rentals I've had so far in 2000 (probably around 20) and that I could put a "freeze" my all future AVIS rentals until I was made Select. She promised to get back with me, in fact, did leave a message the same day and sent me the Select package within a week.