Originally Posted by
ajnaro
You make the initial reservation. In my experience, autoslash rebooks you only if they find the same class car offered by the same company you reserved at a lower price. If they find a better deal with another company, but the same class car, they simply let you know and you can rebook. That's the way it seems to work to me.
Well, the example I gave about was the lower rate was for a different class of car! I had original gotten the lowest rate on a compact, but then the price of compacts went up while the price of an intermediate dropped (twice) below what my original rate for a compact had been.
So if it works the way you say, it would have been useless for me, because the price in the class I originally booked never went down in cost.
(I didn't care whether I got an economy, compact, intermediate, or standard, I just wanted whichever of those was the lowest cost. It sounds like autostash is not up to
that job, but my manual technique is.)
So if there's only one class you're interested in, then autoslash may work for you, but it's a range of class and it's unpredictable (and in my experience it often is) which class will end up cheapest later on, then it sounds like autoslash would not work.
My, anyway, how do I tell autoslash what my original reservation at avis.com is? When I tried it, it only allowed lookup of existing reservations on third-party sites (expedia, etc), not any of the rental car company sites.