Priceline: no cars available?

[hottieandginger]

Has anyone ever received this message?

"Unfortunately, our Name Your Own Price service was unable to locate an available rental car for the area and dates you selected. However, we have found a broad selection of rental car options below."

I waited until pretty late thinking that I could get a decent rate on a car rental in OKC. But it appears that Priceline may not have any inventory...and prices on all other search engines (including Hotwire) are crazy.

Am I hosed?

[thereuare]

Can you please follow-up your Hotwire Lincoln thread with whatever you ended up doing for that stay.

For the rental above, you may be out of luck... what are the dates that you're trying for?

Please use the PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your travel purchases.

[hottieandginger]

I tried again today ... seems like I'm just out of luck ... should have booked earlier so learned my lesson.

I ended up booking through the PRICELINE website ... after the error message, PRICELINE gave me an option to rent for two days through Advantage Car Rentals. The rental is from Monday, 12/6 through Wednesday, 12/8 (Oklahoma City). Total price for the two days (including taxes and fees:) $178.87.

I've rented a car before for $11/day in OKC. So this is crazy.

[AaronJB]

Can you please follow-up your Hotwire Lincoln thread with whatever you ended up doing for that stay.

Sorry to hear that the remaining options were limited and expensive. :)

Thank you for using the site's HOTWIRE or PRICELINE links to start your purchases and searches.