Budget Rent-a-Car - Budget promised a refund verbally over the phone and are now denying they ever promised it.
Location: Denver, Colorado
This happened at Budget Rent-a-Car at DIA.
So this has been dragging on for around 2 months and the amount of lies upon lies that we've been told would make this post ridiculously long, so I'll keep it as short as possible.
Budget wrongly denied a prepaid rental booked through a third party, claiming that it was against their T&Cs, and sold another agreement at 3 times the price for a lesser car plus extras which were specifically not asked for. After finding out the original rental was wrongly denied, we contacted them to ask them to honor the original rate. At first they argued, wrongly citing their T&Cs again, but eventually agreed to honor the original rate. This was promised verbally and by email.
The inflated rate was still charged at the end of the rental, and subsequently a refund was promised verbally on 2 separate occasions, explicitly stating the amount and timeframe. The refund did not happen and they are now denying ever promising it.
On top of this, the car they claim we returned is not the car we rented, and they've added a fuel charge. I have email evidence of agents lying about what their T&Cs say, and proof that contradicts what they claim on the phone. We also know the desk agent receives a commission for upselling because there are job listings for the same location which state this.
The issue is, their customer service is impossible to deal with. They pick and choose what parts of the emails they want to reply to, disregarding they key points of my email each time, and it takes days to get a half hearted response. Calling is no use because they later just deny what was said.
We have filed reports with BBB and disputed the CC charge, so other than waiting on the outcome of that, what can be done? They have taken a four figure sum from us and are constantly contradicting themselves and misleading us, and there is no urgency from them at all. 6 hours+ of waiting on the phone and explaining things, plus a chain of around 30 emails, many not even getting replies, speaking to probably around 15+ different CSRs and we are back to square one even after they admitted we were right. It's infuriating.
Because the amount is only 4 figures and the case is becoming so long and complex with insane amounts of law violations, taking it to court might not be economically viable, but the complete disregard for the law can't be allowed to slide. Even a full refund wouldn't be justice at this point. I'm not sure what to do as it's becoming a full time job trying to keep a timeline and stay on top of evidence etc.
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