'Enjoy the car now': Farmer brings rental car back covered in mud after driving it around the countryside following rental company's unfair demands he pay 1 day extra

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Eleonora Bader
Mar 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

One farmer was fed up with a car rental company after being charged $91 extra for no good reason.

But wait, let's start from the beginning. The farmer's car was being repaired after being involved in a small crash, which forced him to rent a car for $91 a day. To the company's credit, they had some pretty great policies, such as 'no cleaning fee' no matter how dirty the car got, and unlimited miles, which was useful, as the farmer lived in the countryside.

Finally, his car was almost fixed, so he called the rental company on Sunday, asking about return details. They told him that he could return the car at 5:30 pm on Monday, and leave the keys in the shop's drop box. So that's what he did. Well, it turns out they couldn't access the drop box, which led to some more hilarious events unfolding… You can read all about it below.

Then, check out this customer who got 3 hours of his time wasted by a seller who made him drive all the way out for a product he'd already sold.

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    "Enjoy the car now!"
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  • 02
    Rental car company told me where to leave my keys and when I left them there, tried to charge me for an extra day. So I refused to give them the car back until last minute.
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  • 03
    I rented a car for five weeks while my car was being repaired from a car accident. The rental company had a couple great policies- no cleaning fee no matter how gross the car was, and unlimited miles. Ideal for me- I live in the country and going anywhere is a drive. When my car was finally scheduled to be finished (a Monday evening) I called the rental car company on Sunday. Asked about return details. They said return time would be 530pm Monday, but I could just leave it at the shop and leave
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    said sure, and next night I went, got my car, left keys in the box. Got in my car, and check engine light is on. F k. Staff says come back tomorrow and we will fix it. I go home thinking that I will be sitting at the shop all Tuesday because no other ride. Tuesday morning I wake up at 7am to the rental car company very angry and saying that they can't get into the drop box and shop doesn't open til 9. I tell them I just did what they said to do. They told me that they would be charging me an ext
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    opens, I grab the rental keys and give them my car. Right on time, rental car guys appear. They demand the keys and I ask if I'm still getting charge for an extra day. One guy is inspecting the car while the other tells me yes, I'm getting charged an extra day. Guy inspecting it comes over and days car looks good, it should be ready to rent out immediately. I had cleaned it the day before because I didn't want to be a Well, I refuse to give him the keys. "Since I'm getting charged an extra day,
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    At this point I'm petty and angry. So I go straight home. I own a farm and it has been raining like mad lately. I get to work. By the time 10am rolls around, the car is COVERED in mud. Like, this black car looks painted brown. I didn't trash the inside, because I'm not that petty. I hop in the car and drive to the rental place. I'm pretty covered in mud at this point, I had put trash bags on the front seat to limit it. I walk into the rental place looking like I fell into a mud pit. The guy who
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    ask where to put the keys at 530" I'm all smiles and dripping sweetness. I watch the life leave him, his shoulders slump, and he says if I return the car now they will cancel the charge because they need to rent out the car. I give em the keys and take an uber to the shop, where my car is ready. No cleaning fee and no extra day charge. Ha! Edit: Alright, might as well address the few things yall are bng about lol.
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    The uber- I called the uber after I walked out of the rental car place. It took half an hour to arrive. I had brought extra trash bags, so I stripped down a bit (shorts and undershirt) and put on 2 trash bags that I cut holes in. Put my clothes in a bag. Let the mud on my exposed body parts flake off. Did I look absolutely ridiculous? Yes. Did I get mud in some poor strangers car? No. I didn't want to actually ruin the day for some kid getting minimum wage. That's why I only mudded the outside.
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    wreck anyone's day- even the a that charged me. My goal was to make the car messy and shocking enough to get them to not charge me because they were desperate to get it back. "If the outside is that bad, what did he do to the inside?" The car was 91 ft ng dollars a day (first 3 weeks 39 a day and then went up for last 2 weeks to 91) and my insurance did not cover it. I was not willing to let 91 bucks slide.
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    The keys were left at the auto shop, in the auto shops key box. That key box was not open at 7am when rental car company went to get the car. When I went around 9am to drop my car off, the auto shop opened the box for me and gave me the rental car keys. Rental car people appeared a few minutes later. Sorry if spelling and grammar ain't great. It isn't a thesis.
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  • 11
    notreallylucy 3 yr. ago I had a similar experience with an apartment. State law says landlords can't double dip: they can't charge an early termination fee for breaking a lease if the apartment is leased to a new tenant. I go and give my notice and I discuss with them how I'm going to look for a new tenant. They agree. I find a perfect couple with great credit a day or so later. I send them to the apartment to do the credit check and they come back and tell me that the landlord says the unit isn
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    apartment can't take my tenants because the people for the remodeled apartment are going to stay in my apartment until theirs is ready. Great! I say. Since you have a tenant, I don't have to pay an early termination fee. Well no, the landlord says. I found this tenant, not you, so you still have to pay. I remind them of the state law, which does not specify who finds the tenant. It just says they can't charge me and charge the new tenant for the same days. Landlord starts to look shifty and says
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    trying to make it right by pulling a fast one on me. I told them I found a tenant and they had violated the agreement by refusing to even run their credit and that I wasn't going to pay a late fee. If they were leasing out the apartment for no money, that wasn't my problem. There was a lot more bickering before the end. We moved out without checking out or leaving a forwarding address, we just left the keys in the apartment. They called me a few days later about a bunch of damage that didn't exi
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    [deleted]⚫ Enterprise tried doing this to me. Parking lot in the front, key drop off in the back. They had me on camera walking up to the box, putting my keys on WHILE looking at the camera, and walking away. Two days later they called asking when I was going to drop my rental off and that they would have to charge me up the a 5. They didn't like my reply 3.1k Reply Share
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    TexasYankee212. Pretty c to charge you for the day that they had already rented that car to another person. That was double dipping rental of the same car for the same day. 8.6k Reply Share kittiesnti I don't understand. Do you have my reservation? We have your reservation, we just ran out of cars. But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.
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    I think I know why we have reservations. I don't think you do! 4.4k Reply Share twitch_delta_blues. You know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation. 1.6k Reply Share
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    talibob Perfection. I bet that car was fun to clean. 467 Reply Share [deleted] Shrug. I bet that they pay grunts to wash cars for minimum wage and have it down to a science. 240 Reply Share
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    Ashitaka1013. I once asked if I could vacate my apartment with less than 60 days notice if they could find someone else to rent it in time and they said sure but if they couldn't they wanted to do renovations first. It was clear they weren't going to look for a new tenant and were hoping I would just pay for the last month and still move out allowing them to do renos without losing a months rent. I said I wasn't going to move out until the end of the last day I had paid for, which wasn't true si
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    pbj10101. My mom was in a car accident a few years back. The shop that did the repairs was partnered with "Nationally-known rental company" so they hada few cars on hand to lend out. Anyway, after she got her car back, she left the rental with the shop, they said they'd take care of everything...and forgot about it. So the rental company is charging her for the extra days when she supposedly didn't return it, the insurance won't cover it because it wasn't part of the two-week deal for her car ge
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    Hixie. They were repairing your car for five weeks and at the end of that the check engine light was on? That's like, literally the simplest indicator the car can give to say it's not yet fully repaired! 323 Reply Share sabertoothdiego OP To be fair, the first week and a half was spent dealing with insurance to transfer the car to a shop. I changed insurances because they were such a nightmare, don't get cheap insurance! Then they diagnosed the issue. Then it sat for 3 weeks before
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    they could fix it because there were so many cars in. Then they "fixed" it. Im pretty ped but what can I do, the shop really had to fight the insurance so I don't wanna be ungrateful to them 229 Reply Share Hixie - 3 yr. ago Sounds frustrating. 33 Reply Share
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    MiguelitoCS 3 yr. ago This is one of the best malicious compliance I've seen! The policies some/most of these rental car places have are so anti-consumer that it's hard to feel bad, even though someone making minimum wage and had nothing to do with the decision probably had to deal with the cleaning. 220 Reply Share ...
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