I find them match or beat the best rate I can find about 60% of the time, not 50 and now 75%. There

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I have to be honest, I m very basic when it comes to car rentals. I have elite status with Hertz, which saves me time at the airport, and I love their  #1 Rewards program for every $500 I spend, I get a free day rental, which is often over $90 in value since I m NYC-based.
However, I have an upcoming trip to Spain and I m planning to do three days of driving up the Costa Brava, so I wanted a convertible and Hertz had nada. So I then thought I d test drive  autoslash.com , which is a website I ve been hearing a lot about lately which was created by some fellow Flyertalkers . The whole point of Autoslash las vegas hotel casino is that they make your reservation and then automatically las vegas hotel casino check to see if a lower price is available and if so, they email you and you can re-book at the lower price for free. Sounds too good to be true, huh? Well here s my experience:
On Wednesday I searched for a convertible rental for Barcelona airport on my desired dates and within 5 minutes I had a reservation booked at Payless Car rental at Barcelona airport for $403 total and a 250km max mileage per day. I wasn t crazy about the mileage max, but I figured I could live with it. Overall, the site was very simple, in a good way they don t even make you sign-up for an account or store a credit las vegas hotel casino card. I was skeptical that I d actually get an email about the price decreasing since I m renting during a peak summer week, however not 24 hours later, I received the following message:
Thanks for booking with AutoSlash. We review each reservation daily to see if we can find additional savings for our customers. We found a better rate on your upcoming rental in Barcelona on x/x/2011 (AutoSlash Trip XXXXXXXXID: ).
If you d like to switch from Payless to Europcar and lock in the savings, just reply to this email. If you d like to stick with Payless, no need to respond. We ll continue to track rates with Payless, and let you know if we find a better deal.
I immediately replied, Yes, please switch my reservation as long as its the same type of car and shortly I got a new confirmation with Europcar and to make it even more awesome, my new reservation does not have a daily mileage limit.
I m really impressed with this site and I have not been compensated (beyond the money they ve saved me) to say this. It seems like autoslash.com makes their money making a small commission directly from the agency, so this service seems like an easy win if you are looking to save money on your future rentals.
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I agree, rental cars are a tricky game. One of my personal favorite ways to redeem las vegas hotel casino for one day or short rentals is with my Discover Cashback bonus. Enterprise and Alamo give you a $40 rental certificate for just $20 CB Bonus money. Other than that, true to the form of autoslash, you have to shop, shop, shop and do so early! Example: I have an upcoming trip to Kodiak, Alaska. las vegas hotel casino My Small SUV, Subaru Forester or similar is just about $700 for a week rental if I booked today with Avis. Fortunately, I shopped early hoping to pull an Autoslash on the price, but as it turns out, that $438 weekly rental is seeming to be as good as it s gonna get! Autoslash sounds very interesting. I will have to check it out. Thanks, Brian!
I used autoslash for a recent trip to Ireland. I booked a car at Thrifty las vegas hotel casino through them, and like you, 24-hrs later I got a mail stating there was a new lower price. Awesome! I do like that they take that kind of work on instead of you having to keep checking.
Now we are headed to Canada for a month and I m looking for a car pretty pricey at the moment at close to $2500 for an intermediate size car, so I m hoping that Autoslash will work it s magic! las vegas hotel casino I ll also try bidding at Priceline, but I ve never gotten any good pricing them (compared to what some people manage!). Last resort is Discount Rentals which is off airport with a free shuttle, but is half the price.
do they also apply coupon/promo codes and so forth? Lots of good mileage bonuses out there. I just got 3000 US bonus miles with Avis for a 3 day rental at TPA at cost about $120 total. But you nee dto use the right codes when you make your reservation.
@Glenn las vegas hotel casino We absolutely do apply coupons and discount codes. We automatically figure out which ones yield the best rates, las vegas hotel casino saving you the hassle of searching for and testing them. What we do not do however is try to maximize mileage and other point bonuses. We are laser focused on getting our customer the absolutely lowest possible rate. Bonuses can sometimes be worthwhile, but that s not our focus.
@Autoslash- thanks for chiming in. So what would happen if we made a reservation and then added a promo code for miles when we picked up the car? Would it be eligible or are rates through autoslash not eligible for mileage promos?
Our rentals are definitely las vegas hotel casino eligible, but there s a very good chance that our system will automatically override the promo code you entered if it finds another that will yield a lower rate. It s not really las vegas hotel casino point/mileage aware.
On the other hand, if you email us and let us know that you don t want your promo codes changed, we do have a way of blocking any changes and will just track the rental going forward for price drops (which can be significant).
Lastly, without getting into a holy war on this topic, I want to point out that if given the choice between say triple points somewhere and saving 50% on a rental (which happens often with us), there s probably more benefit las vegas hotel casino to the money savings. If it s only say $10 off, then it might be a different story. Definitely shades of gray here.
@Alan Did you book with us or just look at the rate shown in the initial search? The rate shown in the initial search are basically rack rates (we re not allowed to show discounted rates up-front). las vegas hotel casino The discounting comes after booking.
We are 100% free, so there really las vegas hotel casino isn t anything to close. Make a booking elsewhere at the best rate you can and then make one with us and see which one in the end wins out. You can change or cancel at any time without penalty.
Lastly, if you are AAA then let us know (eventually we ll automate this preference). We can often use that to your advantage and may even be able to get you lower than your current rate booked through AAA by creative use of coupon codes in addition to the AAA CDP. Email us the details at supportautoslash.com with your current rental details, and we ll be happy to see what we can do for you.
Yes, we are a travel agency and you book directly with us. Unlike las vegas hotel casino other sites where you book with them and they are then hands-off, we take a much more active approach with your reservation, constantly trying las vegas hotel casino to lower your rate through various means. We will even notify you if we find a better deal with a different company than you are booked with and give you the option to switch (always las vegas hotel casino with the customer s permission) as with Brian s reservation it his original las vegas hotel casino post.
Yeah, I ve found and LEARNED of course that one has to go through the whole booking process with autoslash in order for them to try and work their magic. las vegas hotel casino This WASN T the way the system worked when it first launched (If I recall correctly las vegas hotel casino from sometime last year) where they did display some discounts on the offer page. Anyhow, las vegas hotel casino go through the process, click submit and wait a bit for a better rate to come through.
I find them match or beat the best rate I can find about 60% of the time, not 50 and now 75%. There are often varied AAA rates, which I don t think anyone will properly impliment (an Illinois rate in CA or DC compared to a AAA CA rate in IL will often be different rates with different companies especially hertz) so I think a scrappy renter armed with all the tricks can OFTEN but not always source an as good or better deal.
@autoslash: Do we simply email you our AAA info and can you add this to the profile or does this need to be done for every reservation and can we send you info on reservations currently in the pipeline?
Thanks for the useful information! I just tried it. The Hertz rack rate for 3 days including tax at Canada las vegas hotel casino was approx $288. After I went thruogh the whole booking steps, I got an email confirmation and the cost became $277 which is slightly lower than $288. For some reasons, I also did not see the message las vegas hotel casino We review each reservation daily to see if we can find additional savings for our customers. Did I miss some steps here? Would appreciate your thoughts!
@tivoboy Good memory! You are correct that way back in the early days we did show discounted pricing up front. Let s just say that the rental companies were not fans of this model, so we had to switch to our current model. As for scrappy renters being able to beat our pricing, it can certainly happen, and we re all for folks getting the best possible rates. There literally can be thousands las vegas hotel casino of different ways of optimizing a particular rental. Of course many folks don t have the knowledge or the time to accomplish this (and often can t beat us anyway), so they leave it to us to get them a great rate. We re more than happy to oblige.
@Chris We don t really have profiles yet, but this is high on our list. For now, drop us an email and we will re-check any pending reservations you have with us to see if AAA helps (often it doesn t). You ll have to email us for any future reservations until we get profiles in place.
AutoSlash, Yes, I just got another email. Now it went down from 277 CAD to 221 CAD. This is COOL! I booked the car rental a while ago and got 236 CAD at that time. Now it is lower than what I got a while ago