Payless Car Rental Blows

I needed to rent a van when I was in Florida. I usually go to Yahoo travel and put in my pick up airport and yahoo goes out and does some shopping. It usually comes back with 4-5 choices of companies to choose from. Form there, I take 75% of the best price and go to priceline.com It works almost every time. This vacation....I forgot about the car until the week before....no discounts for Johnny come latelys....so I choose the least expensive company to deal with. Picked a mini van....like I have over the past 10 years.

I picked Payless. I get to Tampa and I have to head off to the city to get the van....they are not on site. No big issue....many are not. When we pull in the lot I notice 2 things....there are almost no rentals.....and they are really in the long term parking business in Tampa. Still not an issue ....so far.

I then meet Mr friendly.....I give him my Travelocity reservation. He starts to check me in and then that smile creeps across his face.....how many people do you have? Do you have luggage? really 6 with luggage on a Florida vacation.....????? He then goes on to explain how what I rented is a regular minivan and that it does not fit luggage.....I would need to upgrade to the extended mini van...are you kidding me???? Nobody rents out the small minivan. This was just a scam. They started out trying to charge me an extra $350....I bitched and moaned and with ....if you can believe it...my Sam's card chewed him down to $100.....for which I will now just re neg when the credit card bill comes in. The worst part....this guy had this down, he had said this 100 times.....jerking around tourists that were now 5 miles from the airport during spring break with no other transportation. A holes.