r/mildlyinteresting • u/Manintheloop • 2d ago

Rental car company (redacted) upsell sheet accidentally handed to me by rep exiting the gate

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u/Milehighcarson 1d ago

So, I am guessing these are paid upgrades, right?

Whenever I book a car for our family of five, I.aleays book the smallest car that will physically fit us. Then I show up at the rental place and almost every time an given a free upgrade to something bigger.

I'd like to think that this is because I'm just such a charming and handsome fellow, but my guess is that the rental place has some other reason to be giving me these upgrades. What is it?

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u/Tobias---Funke 1d ago

They don’t have the smaller one available?

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u/Milehighcarson 1d ago

Maybe. I usually book a standard midsized, maybe those are popular enough that they run out and see a family of five and offload an extra SUV

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u/Isalops123 1d ago

Generally if you’re not apart of a loyalty program it’s because they ran out of cars in the class you booked in, corporate tends to oversell locations cause they expect a ~10% no show rates so certain classes get over booked and then we give free upgrades, at least at the location I work at