AVOID signing up for Avis Preferred Points
So I opted-in to the Avis Preferred Points Program, and absolutely regretting my decision in doing so. The number of points required to redeem a free day is astronomical. If you do the math, its useless. I was much better off getting AA miles, roughly around 1500 per 4 day rental. So here's the break-down of how the points are working out for me.
My 4 day rental at LAX cost about $150 + Taxes. This gives me 150 preferred points + 37 (25% bonus for being Avis First) = 187 total point.
To redeem one free rental day at LAX I need 1200 points, yes that is 1200 points. At this rate, it would take about 13 weeks of rental to earn 1 free day. This makes no sense at all, and definitely not rewarding for being loyal to Avis for number of years now. At least before there were giving 1 free weekend rental (3 days) for every 9 weeks of rental, or get rewarded handsomely with 1500 AA miles.
Obviously; Avis Preferred Points program people must be smoking crack, when they developed this stupid program. Its not rewarding to be renting from Avis anymore. All they can do is keep their fingers crossed, they folks don't switch over to Hertz.
So long Avis, we've had a great run, switching to Hertz.
I hope this helps other fellow renters.