Comments on: Another Day of Travel http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-17/212 Not a photo blog, but sometimes I play one on TV Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:19:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Jeffrey Friedl http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-17/212#comment-2330 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:33:35 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-17/212#comment-2330 Mikey, prepaying for the gas is perhaps a bad *financial* idea, but can be one that helps with stress. I prepaid for the Cleveland rental car's gas, about $40 for the tank. I thought I'd use more, but in the end I used about 3/4th of a tank, so their bottom line got a $10 bump directly out of my pocket. But had I not done it, I would have had to deal with putting gas in it close to the rental-car drop-off point, and particularly in Cleveland where the drop-off point is exactly 27 miles from anywhere, it was worth $10 to not have to worry about it. I wasn't running late.....<i>this time</i>, but it can be well worth it to not have to deal with it. In this latest case, I thought I'd have the vehicle for 6 weeks, and so I'd be able to plan the return-it-on-empty event fairly well. When I realized that I wasn't exactly sure what kind of car it was, I tried to backpetal from getting the gas (just in case of this very "I want to return it soon" development), but the guy was sort of pushy about me taking it, and so I just went with it. I didn't prepay the gas on the new car. Mikey, prepaying for the gas is perhaps a bad *financial* idea, but can be one that helps with stress. I prepaid for the Cleveland rental car’s gas, about $40 for the tank. I thought I’d use more, but in the end I used about 3/4th of a tank, so their bottom line got a $10 bump directly out of my pocket.

But had I not done it, I would have had to deal with putting gas in it close to the rental-car drop-off point, and particularly in Cleveland where the drop-off point is exactly 27 miles from anywhere, it was worth $10 to not have to worry about it. I wasn’t running late…..this time, but it can be well worth it to not have to deal with it.

In this latest case, I thought I’d have the vehicle for 6 weeks, and so I’d be able to plan the return-it-on-empty event fairly well. When I realized that I wasn’t exactly sure what kind of car it was, I tried to backpetal from getting the gas (just in case of this very “I want to return it soon” development), but the guy was sort of pushy about me taking it, and so I just went with it. I didn’t prepay the gas on the new car.

]]> by: Mikey http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-17/212#comment-2329 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:52:04 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-17/212#comment-2329 Hey Jeffy, why do you 'prepay' for fuel? It's generally a *really* bad idea. The only way it makes sense is if you dial it in to return it completely empty. Most people use only a little fuel but they pay for an *entire tank* which goes directly to the bottom line of the car rental company. The euphamism for this type of deal is "upsale". Hey Jeffy, why do you ‘prepay’ for fuel? It’s generally a *really* bad idea. The only way it makes sense is if you dial it in to return it completely empty. Most people use only a little fuel but they pay for an *entire tank* which goes directly to the bottom line of the car rental company. The euphamism for this type of deal is “upsale”.

]]> by: Michael Nitschinger http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-17/212#comment-2328 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:03:38 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-17/212#comment-2328 Well, this car would scare me too http://www.adventuredrive.ca/garage/yukon.jpg If you drive theese cars in austria you can't pay the fuel! good luck for your yourney nitschi Well, this car would scare me too http://www.adventuredrive.ca/garage/yukon.jpg
If you drive theese cars in austria you can’t pay the fuel!

good luck for your yourney
nitschi

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