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Holiday hire car: Avis still refuses to spell out extra insurance costs when customers book online

10 April 2015 By Digital Curator Leave a Comment

Holiday hire car Avis still refuses to spell out extra insurance costs when customers book online-credence agency-david shankbone

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Travellers booking overseas car hire online with Avis, one of the biggest firms, aren’t given full insurance costs until they reach the pickup desk – landing many with extra bills for hundreds of pounds

Car hire giant Avis continues to withhold the costs of additional insurance from customers who book overseas vehicles online, despite promising Telegraph Moneyeight months ago that it was “working on a solution.”

The insurance in question is known as “excess waiver” protection.

If you don’t buy it, you are liable to pay the “excess” or first part of the cost of any damage caused to the vehicle. This is usually about £1,000.

If you buy “excess waiver” cover you won’t pay this excess.

Most of Avis’s rivals, including Europcar and Sixt, do spell out the need for the cover and its cost at the time of booking.

This gives travellers the option to shop around and consider stand-alone car car hire excess waiver policies which can cost as little as £3 per day.

Avis’s own policies are far more costly. Booking a four-door Seat Leon from Malaga Airport for a week in mid-April costs £143 with Avis, for example. The excess payable is €1,400 (£1,020). The add-on insurance required to reduce the excess to zero – not disclosed to those booking online – is €15 (£11) per day.

That would boost the total car hire cost by over 50pc to £220.

Telegraph Money first publicised Avis’s systematic failure to reveal these add-on costs in August last year. The giant car hire firm then acknowledged the problem and promised “a solution”.

But nothing has changed.

Last week, Avis refused to explain why these costs remained hidden from customers at the time of booking. When Telegrpah Money asked whether this refusal was a deliberate ploy to trap customers into paying higher rates at Avis’s desks, it declined to reply.

In an emailed statement it admitted “certain covers and waivers for overseas rentals are not available when booking online” and said “customers will be given the opportunity to find out more about additional waivers and, if desired, purchase them at the time of vehicle pickup.”

It added it was “in the process of updating the end-to-end booking journey.”

In the meanwhile, when it comes to planning their own journeys, Telegraph Moneyreaders should choose another firm where costs are more transparent – or always buy excess waiver policies from third-party insurers before they travel.

by Richard Dyson

See Full Story on telegraph.co.uk

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