Imagine this: you go into hetz.com and reserve a car at this location. You prepay for it and think that it’s all set. The date of the reservation arrives, you take a ride to the office to be there just in time, but when you arrive you find out that the office has been closed for weeks and that the car for which you paid for doesn’t exist.
Well, that’s exactly what happened to me! When I arrived the person at this site (who has nothing to do with Hertz) told me that Hertz at Niagara Falls used to rent part of this location as a satellite office, but that they had closed it “temporarily” several weeks before. He told me that I wasn’t the only one to have shown there to pick-up a non-existent car, in fact this have happened in a daily basis since the office closed.
The only remnant of a Hertz office on this site was a Hertz sign and a piece of paper with the address and phone number of the Niagara Falls location (which is about 10 miles away). I called to that number, and of course no one picked-up my call. I left a voice message and never got a reply.
The nightmare didn’t end there. When I called Hertz it was very difficult to speak with a real human being. When I was able to do so (after waiting 15 minutes in line) I received a very basic apology and I was only offered to get a refund on my credit card. All of this happened more than a week ago, and as of today I haven’t received the refund.
Never ever in my life I will try to rent with Hertz again! I have just met another level of bad customer service.