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Re:The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated by brezelgoring on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:24PM (#29697362)
How come the rental company doesn't wise up to his phone number or name? Are they that afraid of losing a customer that let them down a hundred times before?

I'd just tell him that there's no cars, or something.

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Re:The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated by lozenge on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:42PM (#29697458)
It didn't matter to them because the reservation was just a row in their database and didn't prevent them from renting their cars to anybody else.
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Re:The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated by lotsofpulp on Sunday December 26, 2021 @09:07PM (#29698301)
I am sure they have some ratio of cars to reservations they keep based on actual no show/cancelation statistics.
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