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Good afternoon. This is sent to Green Motion. And I'm still awaiting to recieve my deposite!. Dear lady/gent, To rent a car from your organization (Glasgow), was the worst experience ever in 30 years of rental cars around the globe. 1. Cost us 3/4 hour to get a pickup from the airport (is 3 minutes’ drive to rental station) 2. When we arrive, the following discussion started a. We do not accept AMEX, so this is a problem.!? I paid via Easy rent by AMEX b. Only solution to take a full insurance with roadside assistance plus, which costed more than 300 euro. And then the accept a European Bank card!? c. Also, a deposit was needed and I’m still waiting to get this back! 3. Cars that we receive; (we order a XC60 or similar) a. Peugeot 5008, nice car, but when we start the car, we mentioned a flat tire b. BMW 2 series (not similar), after 1 mile on highway, again flat tire • After 2 hours waiting on the highway, truck pick us up (and discussion started were to go, because he was ordered to go to BMW. Stupid discussion because we like back to the rental office. c. Then we receive a Kia Sportage (not similar car) • After 40 miles message, petrol empty. I thought failure from office and tank the car fully and also when I brought this back. This, because it’s a normal procedure (I Thought) d. We brought the car back, and ask about this issue, and discussion start about this. Explanation was, that they had now license to fill the cars, and even when he was empty, they give you (me in this case) a jerrycan to get some petrol from petrol station. Believe me, I rent a car almost every week, and never had an experience as this. Unfortunately, I see that my next booking is also (via Easy rent) with green motion but will be the last one. So, question now is, how to get my deposit back? I hope you can explain this all!? Arthur Poot +31650216722

Got off to a bad start, the advice given was to catch the hoppa bus from bus stop 16 - this was incorrect. A phone call to Green Motion received a recorded message with 8 options. The option for arrivals said go to bus stop 22/23 - this was incorrect. I eventually found the bus just by walking around at bus stop 18. The counter staff at Green Motion very aggressively tried to sell me extra insurance which was double the car hire charge!! Only good bit was returning the car where it was straight forward. Although I had to wait 20 minutes for the Hoppa bus back to Heathrow and it then stopped at 6 hotels on the way and not one passenger got on the bus

No price reduction but no issues

Picked up the car after the first staff member couldn’t comprehend the paperwork. Car upgrade - appreciated. Both car headlights were defective and dangerous. Had to call RAC to put bulbs back into holders. Told staff on checkin & didn’t really seem interested. I would hire again but make sure there was a proper inspection before I drove away. Didn’t do the inspection this time because staff said I was covered for any damage.

Overall - satisfied.

I was disappointed to find that Green Motion doesn’t even have any Passat wagons in its fleet - why base your bookings on a car you actually don’t have? The cost of adding a second driver was excessive. We were booking the car for 22 days, to charge nearly AU$400 for a second driver was straightforward gouging. Had I factored this cost into the rental I would probably gone to a different company. It was raining when we collected the car and continued to rain for several days so we could never really see if all the marks on the car were listed on the rental agreement. When returning the car the time taken to try to identify extra marks on the car was excessive. We really got the feeling you were simply looking for something to charge us extra for as we were aware that you had no intention of having any minor marks fixed. Luckily we had not damaged the car in any way and there were no problems that had not been put on the contract.

Many comments yes! I arrived to pick up the car and I was told that as my credit cards were the non embossed variety (the new style ones) that they could not accept them. I did have one embossed card - Amex - but they did not accept that either. The manager told me he had been asking head office for a long time to accept these cards but they had not done so. Consequently I could not hire the car and I had to use taxis to get to and from the funeral. SO PLEASE WARN YOUR CUSTOMERS THAT IF THEY HAVE THE NEW STYLE CREDIT CARDS THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HIRE FROM THIS COMPANY UNLESS THEY TAKE THE FULL INSURANCE FROM THEM (HOW CONVENIENT!)