Originally Posted by
EWRsince89
If this is a mistake and you reserve the car (not pick-up and drive) before it's fixed, would CO honor the mistake promo?
Any reason to think this is a mistake?
It seems unusual to me. Typically for a week long promo, we're looking at a bonus of maybe 1,000 miles max on a 5-day to weekly rental like this. Say they want to be generous, fine, make it 1,500 or 2,000 miles. This is still several times that, so much so that it seems unusual.
Then, why the 9,999? They're 1 mile short of 10,000, so make it 10,000 and make it look bigger than it is. Unless of course they're playing on the number 9. There's no 9 years of celebrating Budget and CO, no now serving 99 locations with Budget, and no 99 years of EWR delays with CO. Nothing 9 related in the ad. So I think the 9,999 number is fishy.
I think they wrote it up with the 9,999 as a placeholder, because the number of miles was undetermined at the time the deal was being hashed out. Whether it was to be 1,000 or 1,250 or 1,500 is unknown. It was a 4-digit number of some sort. Or maybe it was supposed to vary: 1,000 for everyone, 1,500 for Elites, 2,000 for certain geographical locations. That sort of thing.
I wonder how this is gonna play out.