Sometimes problems vanish really fast. I was having ‘problems’ with a car wreck that I rented. I wanted a car for a month, but after seeing it and driving it just once just thinking about driving it again made me bath in fear. I was offered a replacement, but the cars were all similar. No deal.
Now what was left was getting my money back. I asked for it multiple times, but I did not actually get it. The guy who rented me the car eventually just refused to return my money, and told me it would just keep the money and offered me a discount of 250 euros on a car I could buy from him. Buying a car from this person obviously seemed a very bad idea.
Then Ana took to the phone. It seemed her second call had some positive effect. After Ana’s first call the sales person contacted me and told me he did not want to speak to Ana any more. Ana had told him a lot of things, like ‘It’s easy to rip of a foreigner, but I´m not one of them’, ‘There is no contract, and you’re doing illegal things’ and ‘The cars you rent are dangerous’, and these comments seemed to work.
Her last call was the final push the sales man needed. ‘Tomorrow you get a refund’, I was told in harsh language. It was even repeated a few times. The effect was that the next day I got my money back, but I was threatened that I would never be allowed to buy a car from the guy. Well, I can live with that without problems.
Advice: Never rent a car in Spain without seeing it first. Not even if the person renting it to you is the friend of your boss. I was lucky to have a Spanish girlfriend who was able to solve a lot of problems by just using the phone, but still…
In Nederland werken meer dan 200.000 professionals samen. Deze 200.000 mensen werken samen om ons allemaal bang te maken. Via tv, huis aan huis blaadjes en radio reclames worden we bang gemaakt. Bang voor terroristen. Bang voor iets waar we helemaal niet bang voor hoeven te zijn. Maar waarom?
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Vorige week heb ik mij in de eerste klas van de trein laten vervoeren. Dit gebeurt niet vaak en het was een aparte ervaring. Normaal wacht je op de trein, stap je in en hoop je op een plekje. Dit veranderd als je eerste klas reist.
Vandaag ben ik bij gebrek aan fiets met de auto naar mijn werk gegaan.. en wat bleek bij thuiskomst…. ik had weer een zadel! Het is wel eens waar niet de oude, met het gat, maar een volledig intact exemplaar.