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SwissCircle Sep 30, 2007 7:00 am

Very bad Sixt service
 
Rented a car this Saturday, with a free one-day voucher.
When I arrived, I was told that I would recive a Nissan Pathfinder (reserved class was IDMR, Plat. member).
Another customer, with no status, complaint about not getting what he said he had reserved. He needed to move stuff around.
Well, the station manager took my Nissan away from me.
They than gave me a Alfo Romeo 159, the only automatic car avail. I had to wait about 45 minutes, after I insisted that they clean the car before I take it.

Today I returned the car, and 2 hours after the station closed I got a voice mail, that they would charge me a "extra cleaning fee".
Is this legal? There is no mention on the rental contract. I paid with a german "EC Karte".

Overall the service was, very poor, I did have no map in the car, which caused a few detours.

Any thoughts??

FTL from FTL Oct 1, 2007 4:32 pm


Originally Posted by SwissCircle (Post 8484692)
Rented a car this Saturday, with a free one-day voucher.
When I arrived, I was told that I would recive a Nissan Pathfinder (reserved class was IDMR, Plat. member).
Another customer, with no status, complaint about not getting what he said he had reserved. He needed to move stuff around.
Well, the station manager took my Nissan away from me.
They than gave me a Alfo Romeo 159, the only automatic car avail. I had to wait about 45 minutes, after I insisted that they clean the car before I take it.

Today I returned the car, and 2 hours after the station closed I got a voice mail, that they would charge me a "extra cleaning fee".
Is this legal? There is no mention on the rental contract. I paid with a german "EC Karte".

Overall the service was, very poor, I did have no map in the car, which caused a few detours.

Any thoughts??

Go and complain - service tends to get worse and worse these days with Sixt.

Write an email to [email protected] and specifically ask for further discount or at least that your rate is adjusted to ECMR which is basically one category less than what you received (CDMR). Do not accept upgrade vouchers as they are pretty useless. Your name is on it and Platinum Upgrade and those vouchers cannot be cascaded. Refer to the name of the agent at the station (mentioned down the long paragraph on the printed rental contract) as CS will speak with the agent "to sort things out".

Of course they will drop these 40Euro cleaning fee - otherwise ask for proof - station staff is advised to make digital photos in such a case.

BTW: Was it an airport station? You could have easily switched the car at every other station as it obviously was not a one-day rental as you paid with EC-card!

Cheers Felix

SwissCircle Oct 2, 2007 2:19 am

Well, send an email on Sunday to the Kundenbetreuung. Called today and was told that the Stationmanager is out till Thursday.
I listened to the voicemail again and figured out she lied too. She mentioned that she intended to rent out the car, but was unable to do so. But, when I returned the car there were at least 25 cars at the station.
Also, she wants to charge me Euro 20,00 for the cleaning. Kundenbetreuung told me if the car has gum, coffee spilled, lots of dog hair etc. then they would give the car to a special cleaning service.
The Stationamanger said it only took longer than usual to clean the car.

here the email I sent out (german only):
uten Tag,

ich habe folgendes Anligen zu dieser Anmietung:

Als ich in der Station ankam wurde mir ein Nissan Pathfinder von Herrn Freitag angeboten (als upgrade).
Als ein Nicht-Status Kunde sich beschwerte, es gäbe kein Fahrzeug in der von ihm (laut Stationsmanagerin nicht) reservierten Grösse für den Transport eines Fahrrads und einiger Kisten,
wurde mir dieser Wagen wieder "weggenommen", nachdem er die Nutzung eines VW Sharan ablehnte.
Dann fragte mich die Stationsmanagerin, wieviel ich den zuzahlen wolle um einen automatik Wagen zu erhalten.
Daraufhin wies verwies ich auf die Reservierung und meinen Platinstatus.
Am Ende bekam ich statt des anfangs zugesicherten Wagens einen Alfa Romeo 159, den einzigen mit Automatik, ohne Navigation. (da ich nur Automatik fahre)
Mir wurde angeboten den Wagen ungereinigt (sehr verschmutzt) zu übernehmen, das verneinte ich und somit musste ich eine gute halbe Stunde auf den Wagen warten.
Für das Durcheinader wurde sich nicht einmal entschuldigt.

Nachdem ich losgefahren war, um jemanden abzuholen, stellte ich dort fest, dass es keine Strassenkarte in dem Wagen gab. Dies verursachte unnötige Umwege.
Ist es nicht üblich solche Karten im Mietwagen zu haben?

Ich habe einen Hyatt Gutschein eingelöst, mit dem Ziel einen entspannten Tag zu verbringen. Was dann nach dem schlechten Service, fehlender Karte und dem darauf folgendem Verfahren und dem Zwangskauf einer Strassenkarte, nicht mehr der Fall war.

Ich habe dann heute den Wagen vollgetankt zurückgegeben, sehr zur Verwunderung der Sationsmanagerin, die mich fragte ob ich den nicht bis Montag behalten wolle. Das dies mehr kosten würde, wusste ich, das erwähnte sie aber nicht. Sie reagierte dann ausweichend als ich ihr dies mitteilte.

Um 14 Uhr erhielt ich eine Voicemail der Stationsmanagerin, dass sie mir eine Reinigungsgebühr ich Rechnung stellen müsste, wegen angeblicher übermässiger Verschmutzung.
Asche neben dem Ascher und Sand auf dem Boden sind im Allgemeinen keine übermässige Verschmutzung.

Ich bin (gelinde gesagt) sehr enttäuscht von dem Service der Station, dem mehr als fragwürdigem Versuch mir ungerechtfertigte Extrakosten zu berechnen, keine Strassenkarte zu haben (angebl. gab es keine Navisysteme zum mieten) und eine längere Nutzung des Fahrzeuges angeboten zu bekommen ohne Aufklärung über die Kosten.
Wenn die Station nicht genügend Geld verdient, dann müssen sie eben mehr leisten, aber nicht versuchen Kunden "abzuzocken".
Das alles ist völlig inakzeptabel!!

Ich (gelinde gesagt) hoffe dass sich diese Sache umgehend klärt und ich für diese sehr unschönen Umstände/Versuche entschädigt werde.


Lets see what they will do. I am ready to fight that scam!

FTL from FTL Oct 2, 2007 8:30 pm

Hi SwissCircle,

did you get an answer to your e-mail so far?

The only thing they really have to remove is the cleaning fee all other kinds of compensation are up to their discretion - I would find another 10% discount or adjusting the billed car-class be appropriate. They can easily do this at CC in Rostock.

With the maps: normally there are no maps provided in the car but all stations have TomTom navi devices which should be rented out in that case - most times they will do this for free (my experience at DRS,FRA,MUC,TXL,STR,LEJ).

Good luck!

Felix

SwissCircle Oct 6, 2007 2:00 am

Why do people have to lie so bad?

Yes, they waived the fee.
The stationmanager said that despite taking pictures (which at the end became just one) was of poor quality, so it would not be usefull for me when asking for proof.
Aha, very interesting. I would bet there isn`t even a picture! (if you have some training you can hear when people are starting to lie!)
Well, this might have been the last time I rented from them.

As I got a very decent corporate rate contract with Avis, I will stick to them. They usually bend over backwards and get me really nice cars and no hassel ever so far.

E3A-Sentry Oct 6, 2007 12:27 pm


Originally Posted by SwissCircle (Post 8518150)
Why do people have to lie so bad?

Yes, they waived the fee.
The stationmanager said that despite taking pictures (which at the end became just one) was of poor quality, so it would not be usefull for me when asking for proof.
Aha, very interesting. I would bet there isn`t even a picture! (if you have some training you can hear when people are starting to lie!)
Well, this might have been the last time I rented from them.

As I got a very decent corporate rate contract with Avis, I will stick to them. They usually bend over backwards and get me really nice cars and no hassel ever so far.


hi swiss circle,

was it an airport station or a regular one?
during college i had some very bad experiences with the sixt at munich main train station.always had to call or write to customer service.

the airport stations are way better regarding service and car selection.
i prefer europcar btw-very competitive rates and good service.


cheers

SwissCircle Oct 7, 2007 2:12 pm

It was a city station in northern Germany. Won´t rent there again.


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