You're right.
No more sleepy-posting!
Just got a minivan in FLL from 5/6 - 5/19 for $29 per day through PRICELINE. Offered the same bid price three times over the past week. Maybe I wore them down? :)
Your Offer Price: $29.00 (per day)
Total Rental Days: 13 days(12 days and 17 hours)
Subtotal: $377.00
Taxes and Fees: $171.16
Total Charges: $548.16
Lowest Published Price: $1065.60
Total Savings:* $517.44 (You saved 49%)[/code]
Hell yeah.
You are bidding for a rental within a week? Good luck, but be sure to check HOTWIRE as well.
... from PRICELINE.
$12/ day
Car details
Hertz - Standard car
Includes unlimited mileage
LAS McCarran Intl. Airport
Las Vegas, Nevada
The car must be picked up and dropped off at this location.
Pick-up date
Tues, February 9, 4:00PM
Drop-off date
Tue, February 16, 7:00PM
This is great! I was originally going to rent from Fox or Payless in LAS, but after reading the horror stories associated with those two companies (high-mileage, dirty, poorly-maintained cars, "upselling", billing irregularities, etc.) I was going to go with HOTWIRE @ their surrent rate of $16.95/day.
Priceline's rate is better than I was going to get from either of the three!
MIA Miami Minivan National
in Priceline Car Rental States A-M
Posted
Been searching for weeks! Everything I looked at in MIA was well over $70/day at the published rate.
9/22 - $25... rejected, with a counter of $77. Unsurprising.
9/23 - $29... rejected, with a counter of $74.
9/24 - $35... rejected, with a counter of $72.
9/25 - $37... rejected, with a counter of $72.
9/26 - $42... rejected, with a counter of $72.
9/27 - $46... rejected, with a counter of $74. What?
9/28 - $51... rejected, with a counter of $76. $*#*@#& !!
Gave up.
The cheapest thing I was able to find was through Alamo - picked up at FLL and dropped off at MIA, for $506.75 (using a coupon code from American Airlines) $56/day, before taxes. I'm flying into MIA, so I was planning to take a shuttle van service from MIA -> FLL, at a cost of $30 per person.
Used that as my backup reservation.
- until today.
Took a look at HOTWIRE this morning... price listed was $294.87, or $28.95/day.
Immediately used your PRICELINE link - and got the following result:
I should have offered Priceline less. :)
Seriously, though. I usually make these sort of reservations months in advance, assuming that I'd get the best price possible. What would cause the price to crash like this?