Originally Posted by koksy
I hired a car from avis at Cape Town airport once. Upon returning the vehicle, we filled it up at the filling station at the airport. A month later we discovered that an additional charge of £6 had been deducted from my credit card account. I queried this with avis and they alleged that the car had been returned with the tank not completely full.
This has happened to us a few times in SA with a variety of hire companies - seems to be a favourite trick.