Originally Posted by
cptango
It sucks?
Seriously thats the kind of story I have heard about and you see in cheesy movies but your the first person that it really has happened to.
Glad it all worked out in the end but Marriots 20,000 points offer seems a little low to me
I tend to agree.
This may be an instance of "no harm, no foul" but the potential for liability on the part of the OP was great. What would have happened if the old man who took the wrong car got into an accident and killed someone? That's a rhetorical question -- the answer is, everyone up the chain would have been sued, i.e. the valet, the hotel, the car rental company AND the OP. What if, instead of a GPS case, a laptop with sensitive information was lost?
Many what ifs, all with very unpleasant consequences.