Caution on renting a car in Germany

I've run across the same problem everywhere from the USA, Britain and South Africa -it's still a pretty common sell-up procedure. I now use the American Express program, which seems to cure most problems.

Another technique you can consider is leasing a car in Europe. I believe this program originated in France, but is also available in other countries. It is based on the high sales taxes of new vehicles and low taxes on pre-owned. Car companies lease the car for a couple of weeks, then fix any problems and resell them at a large discount. Several friends have used this program and say it has been free of hassles - insurance or otherwise. Minimum lease periods vary, but usually are around two or three weeks.

Mike

No matter how hard MasterCard and Visa try, you will never get the same service as you will from AmericanExpresss, which has offices around the world to help you navigate these scams, and their insurance policies are well known to these scammers. If you don't want to pay the Amex annual fee, they have cards now,that are free. --bob

At 13:50 10 January 2015, wrote:
No matter how hard MasterCard and Visa try, you will never get the same
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vice as you will from AmericanExpresss, which has offices around the
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to help you navigate these scams, and their insurance policies are well
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wn to these scammers. If you don't want to pay the Amex annual fee, they
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ve cards now,that are free. --bob

Only trouble is a lot of places in europe dont take AMex any more.

Yes but this is about car rentals at the big agencies, which do take it