Originally Posted by
cestmoi123
Gold customer is meaningless. You can be gold without ever having rented from them before. The only rational reason to use a debit card is that you can't GET a credit card, and I'm totally comfortable with Hertz taking the reasonable position that someone who can't qualify for a credit card presents a higher level of risk.
Says who? Plenty of people neither like nor need credit cards. A visa or mastercard debit card does everything that is needed for purchases . Nothing irrational about using debit cards
ime renting with a debit card is no different than renting with a credit card
Prior to pick up a hold is taken on the card
On return, a charge for the actual rental is made
after a few days the hold clears ( the original hold doesn't tend to clear when charge goes through since the hold and the charge are often not for identical amounts )