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AutoSlash Reviews Summary

AutoSlash has a rating of 2.5 stars from 43 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with AutoSlash most frequently mention credit card and customer service. AutoSlash ranks 29th among Car Rental sites.

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Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I rented a car arranged by autoslash in Denver. When I got to the shuttle bus the driver asked my name and proceeded to tell me my reservation was canceled and I should've gotten an e mail stating as such. I obviously didn't. And told me i couldn't get on the shuttle because they didnt have any cars I had to arrange a last minute car that costs triple the price. I contacted autoslash to alert them of what happened and they told me that they weren't responsible for anything. They did not cancel my reservation and I must have been late for the rental company to cancel my reservation. I thought was very rude of them to assume that because I wasn't late. And yes they do hold responsibility for the cancel. They set it up. And should've know my car was canceled and had an alternative for me. Very poor customer service

Date of experience: September 16, 2024
Arizona
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Use at your own Parel
March 18, 2024

I don't normally write negative reviews. However, in this case I felt the need to do so. I used this site to rent a car on 3/9/24. My flight was scheduled to arrive at 2:00 pm. We arrived 1 hour late. My first surprise was that I called the phone number I had to listen to a recording telling me that I had to find a shuttle bus in order to get to an offsite facility. That took 45 minutes. When we arrived, there was a line of people being told that their car was not available with no help finding another one. I got up to the counter at 4:05 and was told that they did not have my reservation. The gentleman behind the counter looked at my paperwork and determined that my reservation had been canceled because I was more than 2 hours late, Keep in mind that this was a prepaid reservation. I was willing to take any car they had. Turns out they didn't have any cars available for anyone. I had to go across the street to Sixt car rental where I was able to get a car at an additional $200.

When I contacted About this I had to jump through several hoops in order to get my prepaid amount refunded. This site is just a broker and has no connection to the car renters or any ability to fix a problem

Needless to say, I will not be using this company in the future.

Date of experience: March 18, 2024
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I booked a rental through Autoslash, paid for it and showed up at the Avis the car was booked at.

There were hidden fees that weren't mentioned by Autoslash and Avis wouldn't let me get the car unless I paid them. I was at the Avis desk when I called Autoslash and Autoslash said to just pay them, send the receipt and I would get refunded.

Did as I was told, sent the receipt and they said I would get my refund. Waited a week and heard nothing, upon following up they told me they decided to deny the refund and they would not help me further.

In the end I have to chargeback my card and file with the state attorney general. It would have been cheaper and easier to just book directly through the car rental company.

Date of experience: June 29, 2023
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Recent rental
March 18, 2023

I recently booked a rental car with thrifty thru autoslash. I did prepay and whe nIgot to the rental counter, at the correct time, I was told they didn't have and vehicles and it would be a wait and at leas 45 minutes or longer and could not guarantee. I contacted autoslash as per directed by thrufty and was told via email that I had to provide any documentation from Thrifty on their letterhead. At the rental counter they barely had staff working and iwaited on line for almost an hour to even get to an agent at the counter. I was told pretty much too bad by autoslash. I understand the cancellation policy but ths was no fault of my own as the customer and autoslash and thrifty should take that into consideration. I do not reccommend thrifty/or autoslash

Date of experience: March 18, 2023
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Exceeded Expectations
March 17, 2023

Has a hard time booking a Fox auto rental that came up in my Autoslash search. Reached out to Autoslash and within 5 minutes I had a response and my auto had been booked!

Used this service many times - this was the first problem I ever had booking (also first time trying to book with Fox).

Autoslash EXCEEDED my expectations with its quick response and solving the problem. (Problem on my end with Fox not "liking" whatever my computer security settings were - or some such the Autoslash person explained.)

Love the ease of Autoslash and how it compares numerous car rental agencies in one easy to navigate search.

Date of experience: March 17, 2023
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I booked through Autoslash for 5 days. The charge on my credit card is: $696.01; I checked the original receipt from Hertz Autoslash only paid the supplier $511.66 for 7 days of service, including tax and facility fees.

It is clearly stated that AutoSlash provides a free service and only charges a small commission for the booking, which is not true.

6.8% commission is taken and charged for credit card usage, which is not mentioned anywhere.
They claim to have paid the supplier $627.04+ credit card usage charge of $24.58 + commission. 6.8% [not disclosed in the final receipt] It would total up to $ 696.01

[[ 5 [days]* $60.94 [daily rate] = [total] $304.7 (not including tax or miscellaneous charges) not close to the charge I got charged on my credit card.
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Autoslash used a voucher to book for 7 days instead of 5 days.

Date of experience: December 6, 2022
North Carolina
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Outstanding Value and Service
November 25, 2022

My first use of AutoSlash was outstanding! They found me a nice car at half the price I could get at the corporate contracted company I normally use. I was apprehensive about renting from Fox and almost panicked when I couldn't find the reservation AutoSlash had made for me, but AutoSlash responded quickly to my evening email and resolved the problem. The rental the next day at Fox in Denver was fast and efficient with a wide choice of cars to choose from, and the return 11 days later was just as easy.
I will definitely use AutoSlash and Fox again.

Date of experience: November 23, 2022
Connecticut
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Stole my money
September 11, 2022

I reserved a car the same day I had to pick it up because I needed a rental I prepaid for it and then quickly
I canceled it and because I didn't cancel within the 48 hours cancellation policy they're saying I cannot get my money back I told them I reserved the car for the same day I was going going to pick it up so I had no chance to cancel before the 48th hour policy not once did the website warn me that this money was not refundable not once did it tell me that if I cancel I will forfeit my money and now they're saying that I cannot get my $402.42 they told me that they don't accept debit cards that you would need a credit card yet I use my debit card and they charge me knowing that I can not use my debit card so I was never going to get the car in the first place because I used a debit card basically once they charge my money on my debit card I lost all that money because I was never going to get a car because I use the debit card in the first place. And plus it doesn't help when employee I talk to threw email was no help and rude! Basically telling me that's what I get. Oh well that's not his problem, be careful when going threw them. YOU HAVE BEEN WARN!

Date of experience: September 11, 2022
Chris L. — AutoSlash Rep
over a year old

HI Jesus, I'm terribly sorry you had a negative experience. We make every effort to make it abundantly clear when you book that reservations are nonrefundable within 48 hours of the scheduled pick-up time and that reservations must be canceled at least 48 hours prior to the pick-up time to be refunded. As we mentioned via email, this is shown in at least five separate places during the booking process; in addition, there's a checkbox that we require our users to check indicating they are aware of the booking and refund policies. This isn't an arbitrary decision we made but rather a policy of the suppliers we source our highly-discounted prepaid rates from, and we regretfully do not have any ability to overrule them and force them to approve an exception to their policies.

The travel industry (and especially the rental car industry) is known to have a lot of gotchas, and so we work very hard to be 100% transparent on our site and in all of our communications about cancellation policies as well as other rules/requirements/restrictions (such as debit card policies set by the rental car agencies) so our customers have every opportunity to be aware of these policies and potential issues.

California
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Saves money!
April 22, 2022

I have used Autoslash.com for over five years and have saved hundreds of dollars. My experience has been so great, I have recommended them to my friends and family. On the few occasions when I needed additional help, I received a prompt email response.

Date of experience: April 21, 2022
Hawaii
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Have rented cars with them for several years. They've found great deals and provided outstanding customer service whenever we've contacted them. It's great to deal with a company that has integrity!

Date of experience: August 5, 2021
Mexico
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I've been very happy with all my car USA car rentals when using AutoSlash - they have certainly saved me money.
However, do not use them for Mexico car rentals. They don't include the Mexican mandatory liability insurance in their price quote and it's very deceiving -- they hide a disclaimer in very small print -- and the result is that you show up in Mexico expecting to pay a low price, and you are forced to pay 5X that amount instead. Other sites like SIXT are much more transparent and give you the correct and complete quote, so use SIXT for Mexico.

Date of experience: November 19, 2020
California
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Total Fraud
November 8, 2020

Forget this company. I booked a car through them which then went through Priceline to Hertz. The total with tax and fees was $475.63. I then sent up with their price watch system, and I received an email that I could get a better deal on my car for $690. WTF? I emailed them, and they told that was a great deal because the car I rented was really $979! I called Hertz and they confirmed that the rental price for the car was $979.82, using the same confirmation number. I told them I had a copy of the confirmation for $475, and essentially they said, not our problem, call Priceline. I called Priceline who tried to give me a bs story about higher taxes at the time I was booking, and essentially said, sorry.

Date of experience: November 8, 2020
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Good all around
October 8, 2020

I've used them twice and had no issues with my rentals either time. They saved me $100 for my last six day rental. You need to pay in advance (that's how they can discount so steeply) but it's totally refundable until 48 hours prior to your dates. One time I had to cancel and they quickly refunded, no questions asked.

Date of experience: October 7, 2020
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I need a car for a weekend
September 17, 2020

Pleasures and leisure and wedding going out to eat with family. Going on a thoure
On that weekend it's my birthday.

Date of experience: September 16, 2020
Minnesota
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I've used AutoSlash every year since i first learned about it. Each time was effortless, and over the years AutoSlash has saved me hundred$ of dollar$.
Mind you, each rental was domestic: i will try Autoslash in Europe when quarantine restrictions allow Americans back. And i'm a very basic and undemanding traveler who's learned that a teeny bit of flexibility is rewarded with outstanding customer service.
Several years ago I had a bad accident with an AutoSlash car, and the AutoSlash person i reported to was extremely helpful. Since then i've always opted to get car rental insurance (Allianz is my favorite provider). Since i save so much $$ with AutoSlash i'm happy to pay a little more for insurance.
I've tried to convince friends to use AutoSlash, but they're boomer little old ladies who can't wrap their heads around the e-mail business model. As a boomer little old lady myself i find AutoSlash's methods to work just fine.
If you can love a company i love AutoSlash, and i don't know why more people don't know about it. AutoSlash still seems to be a best-kept secret of sorts.

Date of experience: June 28, 2020
Utah
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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This content is misattributed to me. Another Helen S. Must be in the system It is my hope that she continues the dialogue with you

Date of experience: June 26, 2020

Bait and Switch
February 18, 2018
Previous review

When I am transferred to Priceline the price of the rental is more. Once by 30 dollars a day. AutoSlash has problems

Date of experience: February 18, 2018
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Without a way to add known traveler info on prepaid reservation, it negates savings and makes for an unfortunate trade off of value and convenience. Contact us takes you to the nether world with neither.

Date of experience: December 5, 2019
Chris L. — AutoSlash Rep
over a year old

Hi Paul, thanks for your feedback. I, too, wish that our prepaid booking vendor supported adding frequent renter information. As a frequent rental car customer myself, I highly value the ability to skip the rental counter and go directly to my car using my frequent renter loyalty program details.

That said, I'm a little confused about your feedback, because we do try our best to make it abundantly clear that our prepaid rates unfortunately don't support frequent renter programs. When you click the "Pay Now" button on our quote, we designed a pop-up screen that explicitly says, "Frequent renter membership numbers can't be added when booking, and program benefits may not apply." As well, there's no box to put a frequent renter program number in. We try to do our very best to be 100% transparent and help everyone make the best decision for their situation when renting a car. I apologize if you feel that we didn't do enough to that end.

As for the contact us "netherworld," I'm quite stymied about that because it appears you had quite an extensive conversation with our support representative Michael, who responded to your inquiry within 10 minutes, and then you responded back to him 11 minutes later (along with some further responses from both parties, so quite obviously we did receive and respond to your inquiry (and you responded back to us). If you need any further assistance with your question, though, please don't hesitate to reply again and we'll be glad to help you with anything you need. Safe travels!

Washington
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Credit Card Dispute
October 17, 2019

Rented a car in France through Autoslash -- paid a deposit to Autoslash with balance due at rental agency. When I arrived agency had no record of deposit, after prolonged call to Hertz I paid the full amount. Contacted Autoslash and for 6 weeks was promised a refund by Chris for their mistake. It never came and he eventually didn't write me back. I had to dispute with my credit card for a refund. AVOID.

Date of experience: October 17, 2019
Chris L. — AutoSlash Rep
over a year old

Hi Aaron, I do feel terrible about the problem you had with the prepaid rate in France and the trouble we had getting our booking vendor to process the refund. As you know, we don't sell any rates ourselves directly but rather contract with third-party vendors who have relationships with the rental car companies to offer their rates to our customers. I agree that the way they handled your refund was unacceptable and took far too long, even though we were constantly pressuring them to issue the refund, and we'll be speaking to their management team about the way this was handled. I did get a note from our booking vendor that the refund was processed on 10/9, so perhaps the refund and your credit card dispute crossed paths. In any case, I'm glad that all is settled now and the funds have been returned to you.

I looked at my email history with you and am confused at your assertion that I didn't write you back, since your last message to me was on October 2 and I replied to you about 6 hours later. If you sent a message after that point that I didn't respond to, I apologize--please feel free to send it again, as it didn't come through on my end.

Even though our prepaid rates come through third-party vendors, we always stand behind the product and work tirelessly to make sure things are made right. I feel bad that it took much longer than it should have in your case, but please know we do not rest until each and every one of our customers are made whole. As well, you still have the option to see significant savings on your rental by using our system to find discounts on *non*-prepaid rates that you can then book through major trusted online travel agencies. I know this incident left you unhappy, but I would hate to see you overpay for your car rentals by booking undiscounted rates, even if you don't feel comfortable taking advantage of our prepaid rates. As always, please reach out if you have any questions.

Colorado
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I've been trying to book a car through Autoslash pretty much all morning and I have nothing to show for it but hours of wasted time! I submitted my request for a quote and within 10 minutes or less they got back to me with a fantastic quote, so no complaints there. I then clicked through the link, which took me to Priceline. Once a clicked through the Priceline button, every single time it comes up error. They do of course have a working link to a more expensive rental for my requested city, date & time. Then I come to find out that Autoslash is actually owned by Priceline. This is classic bait and switch, PERIOD!

Date of experience: July 18, 2019
Chris L. — AutoSlash Rep
over a year old

Hi Jefferey, sorry to hear about the hassle! Certainly no bait and switch intended (and we are very much independent and NOT owned by Priceline!). It looks like there might be a glitch in Priceline's system. We already replied to the email you sent our support team an hour ago to help you get the rate we helped you find booked. Feel free to reach out to us if you have any other questions or issues!

Maryland
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I priced my car rental at 579.00 (Thrifty) after shopping and shopping. Pick up in L. A., dropping off in Phoenix 8 days later. I stumbled upon Auto Slash and inputted my information and every few days I would get an email saying they found a cheaper rate. The Autoslash rates when all the way down to 174.00 (Hertz) and I pulled the trigger. I prepaid, and called Hertz to confirm everything was legit. It was. I just got home from vacation and very happy I saved 400.00. I am really still shocked. Thanks Auto Slash!

Date of experience: July 2, 2019

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autoslash.com
Founded in 2010
New York City, NY, United States