Araceli F.

I rented a car with GreenMotion through an online rental company, and it was truly the worst car rental experience I've ever had. Green Motion rented me an unsafe car - the car had a broken speedometer and tires that could not maintain safe air pressure. I realized the car was unsafe about 30 minutes into my first time driving it. I called Green Motion to notify them of the issue, and after over an hour of back-and-forth, they finally took responsibility for the unsafe rental. They proposed to offer me another rental car, but at that point, I did not trust their quality of service and safety precautions - I declined and asked for a refund. They said they could not refund me the cost of the rental, which is absurd considering the car was UNSAFE to drive.

Rentalcars.com needs to vet and consistently evaluate its rental car partners - I had a TERRIBLE experience with Green Motion in Orlando, FL; judging by the queue of 10 people in the customer service line that day, I know my experience was shared by many others. Green Motion rented me an unsafe car - the car had a broken speedometer and tires that could not maintain safe air pressure. I realized the car was unsafe about 30 minutes into my first time driving it; however, I was in Orlando to officiate a wedding and had a very tight time table, so I couldn't immediately drive back to return the car. I called Green Motion to notify them of the issue, and after over an hour of back-and-forth, they finally took responsibility for the unsafe rental. They proposed to offer me another rental car, but at that point, I did not trust their quality of service and safety precautions - I declined and asked for a refund. They said they could not refund me the cost of the rental, which I contested for weeks.

About a month later, I decided to pursue the refund with Rentalcars.com since Green Motion refused to refund me. At that point, I was told by a Rentalcars.com customer service representative that because I did not call Rentalcars.com directly during the incident, I could not receive a refund - this is ridiculous! I did my due diligence of reaching out to the actual car company, which took several hours of back and forth. I shouldn't be beholden to then follow up with Rentalcars.com within the same window, especially when I had other more important things to attend to, such as OFFICIATING A WEDDING. I placed my trust in Rentalcars.com to secure me a reliable rental so that I wouldn't need to worry about the car and could focus on the reason I was in Orlando in the first place; instead, my trip was interrupted and impeded by getting an unsafe car - I had to take taxis/ubers to get around which was HIGHLY inconvenient and deal with an unnecessary issue of bad service during a very important trip. To be told that I couldn't get a refund because I waited to report the issue to the third party booking agency is frankly unacceptable. AVOID AVOID AVOID RENTALCARS.COM - it's not worth saving a few extra dollars to then have your whole trip messed up.