Overall, fairly satisfied. It's a Chinese car rental company, so communication was easy. Upon arrival, I called, and they picked me up quickly. The car had already driven over 70,000 km, but it was well-maintained and in good condition. During the trip, a small stone from the opposite lane hit the windshield and caused a chip. I asked for advice on WeChat, and they responded quickly. The store is close to the airport, just a few minutes away, but it was hard to find. We spent quite some time locating it when returning the car. The only dissatisfaction was with the way they handled car damage. We rented cars in both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, both with full insurance. Unfortunately, both cars were damaged. While the other company deducted repair costs based on actual expenses and provided a full set of claims documents by email for a straightforward process, this company deducted the entire pre-authorization amount at return. They later transferred some money back to me without explanation, which I found confusing. Only after multiple inquiries did I learn it was the unused repair funds. The insurance company refunded based on the actual repair costs, but this process led to a discrepancy of over a hundred dollars, probably due to exchange rates and bank fees. Fortunately, the rental company promised to claim the difference from the insurance company for me, but I haven't received the secondary refund yet. I find their complex operation method hard to understand.
It makes customer extremely uncomfortable when your staff conducted forensic check on the returning car for almost 15 min. It does not work that way in the car rent industry.
Waited a long while for shuttle and also to get our car as the pick up location was not at the airport but off-site. We also had to make a local call to contact the company for a shuttle and that means overseas call charges for foreign visitors like ourselves. When we picked up the car and asked for the company to mark out all the scratches, they said it was our responsibility to take photos and accept the car, which already had scratches all over. They claimed that they already had a database of the car's scratches before handover (which they did not show us as they did not have it available then), and the onus was on us to do a comprehensive 100% check capturing pictures of all scratches (hard to do after a 14-hour flight!). When we returned the car after completing the rental, they claimed that we had caused some new surface scratches on the bumper even though I was not involved in any accident, and suddenly they made available a tablet showing the pictures of the pre-existing condition of the car before rental. We were made to pay an excess of $4000 before we were allowed to go catch our return flight, and the attitude of the counter staff was rude and terrible in the whole process, basically holding us back from leaving. Have shared the story with Easyrentcars on the pain points trying to claim back the partial excess from the so-called damage repair costs for the surface scratches which are just a few of the many across the car. Won't rent from these guys ever again and would recommend all NZ visitors to avoid renting from them. Unethical behaviour.
About QEEQ:9.0/10
Appreciate Easyrentcars helping me claim back the partial excess, especially since the car rental company did not want to respond to me on how they have repaired the vehicle and how much it cost even after 3 weeks. Find it unbelievable that they actually repainted the whole bumper to cover up the scratches and it costed them around $1000 (see attached photo for scratches at left corner of bumper). But really big thanks to Easyrentcars for helping me close the case with the rental company and move on.
Will not ever be using easy rent again. So bizarre. Staff don't seem to be able to answer basic questions. Too much mucking round with pick up and a lack of flexibility when our flight was canceled unexpectedly. Staff were quite rude and difficult to understand.
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