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6 CAR RENTAL SECRETS HERTZ, BUDGET & ENTERPRISE Don't Want You to Know! (2020 UPDATED) - YouTube
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I have six secrets to help you snag the
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best car rental from Hertz budget
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thrifty dollar and more hi I'm the
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YouTube deal guy Matt granite from
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Matt's daily deals.com you're about to
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save a lot of money so a reminder if you
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subscribe and turn those notifications
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good to go plus if you like this video
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I'll know you like the content and who
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doesn't like saving money I rent a car
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at least every month sometimes more I
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take one big trip every month usually a
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three or four day long weekend with all
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of these travel points that I've
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accumulated now one program that doesn't
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really have a lot of points where
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loyalty does not go a long way car
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rentals and when I did a video on this
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concept last year I heard from a lot of
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people who wanted to argue and they had
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very strong differing opinions and I
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learned that a lot of the people
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commenting actually work for major car
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rental companies and they weren't happy
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with the advice I was dispensing and I
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was able to isolate the viewers and the
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subscribers and was a really interesting
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video if you go and you look back at
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that I uploaded that at the end of
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October last year but this is a new
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video with updated information so first
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things first of the six secrets that no
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car rental company wants you to know
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secret number one most of those
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wonderful people at the counter and many
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of them are wonderful they make the
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basis of their Commission on selling you
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add-ons those add-ons could be a GPS
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unit it could be a car seat and I want
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to remind you if you travel with a young
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child like I do the cost to rent a car
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seat per rental is around 125 dollars
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you can buy a good toddler car seat for
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about eighty nine dollars and ship it to
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your destination more importantly if you
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have a car seat that's about $200 buy a
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cover check that at the airport and
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you're going to be saving at least 125
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bucks per car rental so that's important
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to know that was the big takeaway number
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one secret number two don't book
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directly through any car rental company
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and the reason is that is never your
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best way to find the least expensive
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rate and I'm going to show you a tool
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that I've profiled in the past and just
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show you how strong and valuable this is
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to really lock in the lowest rate let's
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look at car rentals calm
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to start so with the dates of March 5th
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6 p.m. and a march 8 drop-off of 5 p.m.
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car rentals calm which is a great
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website using basically Expedia but not
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the website that I'm going to show you
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pulls up rates for an SUV of about one
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hundred and fifty six dollars thirty
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dollars a day you go to enterprise 169
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yeah Alamo 169 alright if you move to
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Hotwire with the exact same dates
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Chicago March 5th 6 p.m. March 8 5 p.m.
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drop off you're pulling off rates of
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slightly less with their feature deals
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10% off one hundred and fifty four
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dollars one hundred and sixty-three here
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blah blah blah blah blah for a compact
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SUV 154 car rentals calm a compact SUV
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156 all right 154 156 the third tool
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that I want to show you right now is a
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tool called Auto slash and I again with
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all of my car rentals swear by this
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website they're not paying you to talk
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about them I'm not using any type of
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Philly links I just happen to love this
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website if you were to use this website
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they will also track the rental price
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drops for you so if your rate drops to a
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lower price they will alert you and you
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can lock that in we're gonna put in the
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same dates here the only reason this
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website is a little bit different is
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that you need to put in your email
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address and then they will email you
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their results and I think that's because
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a human being works with a computer
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algorithm to really find you the best
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rates sometimes it's five minutes till
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they email you sometimes it's an hour
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but you usually get a much better price
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so you can put in if you're part of any
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membership groups but for this sake
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right now we're just gonna go bare-bones
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and then you enter your email address
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and then within a few minutes I will
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have an email from auto slash they don't
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sell your information no issue with that
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alright let's look at auto slash now now
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that I'm now that my results are in auto
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slash is giving me four again March
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fifth six pm March eighth drop off
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ninety eight dollars for a compact SUV
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from thrifty and again it's pick up at
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the airport rental car center the same
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location all of these other companies
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are using let's look back so we've got
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150
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or was our best price at Hotwire and 98
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dollars for a compact SUV unlimited
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mileage no additional fees you can even
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prepay with Auto slash or just use this
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with a pay later through Priceline
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option that is far superior and on this
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trip alone if you use the tool that I've
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suggested you're saving 60 bucks just
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for one weekend rental secret number
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three if you can and your schedule
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permits avoid renting from an airport in
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most cases I don't know if you guys have
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realized this but when you rent from an
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airport or you return to an airport you
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paying an airport concession fee and
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sometimes that can increase the total
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value of your rental by thirty forty
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even fifty dollars depending on the
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dates and how popular the weekend is if
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you look at the different rates right
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here and now this is per day there are
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three different rates that you can see
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and usually you have a control over this
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there's in terminal 35 on Airport which
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means you have to take a shuttle bus and
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off Airport which is 36 but let's let's
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assume you're not taking an uber or a
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taxi somewhere else sometimes taking one
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quick shuttle bus which is no more than
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a five minute drive from the airport
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completely free will save you four or
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five dollars per day and trust me over
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time
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that adds up that would mean that even
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just for the course of this rental the
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rate would go from 150 for total to 185
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total by making that little change so
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again it pays sometimes to hop on the
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shuttle bus secret number for those low
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rates from those companies you've never
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heard of exist for very good reason
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those companies are sometimes over
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selling or just know that if they create
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the lowest rate they're going to
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dominate on a specific date because
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anyone will go to that location an
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example which I'm going to pick on them
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because every time I fly to Phoenix I
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see this Fox car rentals at Phoenix have
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a line that wraps around the corner and
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one or two people at the front of the
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line that are helping in a line that is
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usually a two-hour wait if you look at
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all of the concession
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stands from Hertz $2 Alamo thrifty all
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beside them there's never a line what
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happens well Fox rental car will lock
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people in with prepaid rates where you
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have to go to them and they know there's
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no other way for you to turn down that
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$10 discount per day there's a reason
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they are that cheap please look at the
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ratings for car rental companies you can
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look at them sometimes on Auto slash or
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you can seek them out independently
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another example of a company that you
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may not want to go to easy rent there in
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Florida I just rented from them a few
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weeks ago in West Palm Beach
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they were almost 80 dollars less
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compared to any other company but I was
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picked up in an unmarked van taken to a
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Hilton Hotel and on the side of the
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Hilton Hotel there was something that
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looked like a ballroom and there was one
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person of what looked like an area where
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you would hang your coats they gave us
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these numbers one through six written
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out on a piece of paper and had us call
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our own insurance companies to prove
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that we had insurance and I probably
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gave out more personal information than
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I needed to the car also made some
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strange noises now they were very nice
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the drop off was okay but in the middle
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of the night in West Palm Beach that
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might not have been the best experience
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for other people and that's again just
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one experience I had with this company
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called easy rent now speaking of
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insurance that brings me to secret
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number five all car rental companies
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want you to take their insurance now
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there's a bit of a debate that I have
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internally with this in an unknown city
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with an unknown vehicle and directions
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that you're trying to get either from
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your phone or through someone else we're
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a lot less likely to get into an
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accident in those situations than we are
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in our vehicle which we use and operate
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in our own neighborhoods and commutes
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with that being said a lot of people say
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oh I just use my own insurance if you
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use your own insurance company as your
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primary insurance company on a car
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rental yes they'll cover you but if you
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crash that car you use your own
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deductible and that counts against your
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own insurance rates over time if
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anything happens if you take out a
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secondary insurance you can smash the
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car and walk away
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there's no deductible there's nothing
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that affects your premiums and you're
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using a third party insurance that is
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great at fifteen or twenty dollars a day
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that's a lot if you're renting for an
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entire week one thing to keep in mind
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which I like is a third party insurer
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that has nothing to do with the car
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rental company and in this case if
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you're booking through Priceline or Auto
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/ or Hotwire you're going to be
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presented with an add-on third-party
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insurance from Alliance global which is
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a major company for about ten dollars
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and ninety five cents per day what does
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that mean well that means if anything
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goes wrong there your third-party
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insurance company there's no deductible
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and it won't affect your premiums and in
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most cases you do not have to go through
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your own insurance company now of course
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cities rental states and countries have
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different terms and conditions but it is
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interesting to know that for 1095 per
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day versus twenty or twenty five from
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the car rental this type of coverage
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could be your best bet and secret number
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six you can stack coupons but don't book
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through the car rental company now with
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Airlines loyalty goes a long way hotels
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definitely loyalty goes a long way but
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for car companies the best bet generally
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is just book the lowest car rental
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company in whatever city you happen to
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be in and whether it's dollar thrifty
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alamo hertz budget you're going to get
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the same vehicle and yeah it might not
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be waiting for you just where you just
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walk into it and you're all there for
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their elite members but that'll cost you
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another five minutes and there's really
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nothing to to lose in that respect the
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car rental companies will all allow you
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to stack Costco membership BJ's AARP
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Triple A and if you're using a tool like
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Auto slash you can actually tick the
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boxes to show where your a membership
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and that coupon will work in conjunction
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with the discount you're getting so yes
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coupon stocking works and then a couple
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of tips just to remind you don't take
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the full fuel upon return every major
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car rental company is near some gas
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station sometimes it's a block from
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where you're returning your vehicle
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sometimes you have to get off the
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highway but it is impossible to
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calculate how much gas you are going to
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use and have that full tank where you
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don't need to do anything work to your
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advantage when you do return the rental
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and finally if there are any remnants of
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garbage in your vehicle some companies
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will charge you a one hundred and fifty
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to three hundred dollar cleaning fee if
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you leave a couple of bubble tea cups or
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if your baby has a few extra cheerio
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remnants in the back seat in fact I
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heard from someone on my last video that
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have a cleaning fee assess for an empty
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water bottle in the couple
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in the front the rest of the car was
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completely clean so keep in mind that
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when you are returning the Car Rental
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really there's a garbage beside it when
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you take it back take everything out get
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them to print a receipt and make sure
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there are no additional fees I've seen
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car companies make all sorts of mistakes
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so there you go I hope this video helped
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you if you want to see more content like
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this please leave me a comment if you
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have any specific trips where Auto slash
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or another tool has worked for you
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please feel free to leave a comment and
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if you are watching this and you're a
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member of the car rental industry and
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you're angry about any of the
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information I've dispensed I have full
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support for all of you have rented cars
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from every major company you are all
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wonderful people but they're sometimes a
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cheaper way to do things okay I love you
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