Last week, I rented a car from AVIS. On their website there was a tab to click to have a free upgrade. I clicked it, and it went to where you fill out your information about when you want to rent the car etc....
I have been checking prices from 2 weeks before that and my mouth dropped when I saw that the car I wanted to rent was 50% off of what I had been seeing for 2 weeks with all rental companies. Of course, I immediately reserved it, and when I got to the credit card input, it wouldnt take any of my credit cards when I clicked on pay now. I decided to click the pay at counter and the reservation went through knowing that I have to go to the counter even though the price was a little more, but still waaaaay lower than what I had been seeing.
I decided to call AVIS and ask an agent why my credit card wouldnt work, and he redid my reservation and he asked me what country I was from. I told him US and he entered that in his system. He then tried to finalize the booking and he told me that the low rate I got was because of when I entered USA as what country I was from, it (the computer) automatically jumped from USA back to Australia as a default and it would not stay on USA.
My question is, now I have a booking/reservation for this vehicle at the LOW rate, but what will happen at the counter when I get there? Will they tell me that it is not a US rate and for Australians only or will they honor it? Its not my fault the computer reverted back to Autralia automatically....