Originally Posted by
seawolf
The thing with corp cdp is that your CC and/or Hertz can argue to void any insurance in court by stating you misrepresented yourself since the contract itself explicited states you are a employee/member of XXX company/association in the event of a loss.
That's a really interesting point. I've been using an IBM CDP for the past 20 years, mostly as a vendor to or partner with IBM, in smaller companies.
Now that I'm working for another large vendor (and competitor to IBM), I took a look at our travel policy. Here's what it says:
"The Corporate Discount Identification Number must be in the rental agreement or the traveler will not be covered by insurance (see exceptions under the Insurance section below). [Company] policy states that you must book all reservations through [Company] Travel or [Company] Travel Online which will then automatically apply the Corporate Discount Identification Number to your reservation. Failure to add the correct Corporate Discount Identification Number will impact the rate and insurance inclusions applied to the rental."
Ouch. I'm using [Company] CDPs from now on. The good news is that we get rates similar to those offered by the IBM CDP.
Lee