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Car hire charging excess fees

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  • flea72
    flea72 Posts: 5,392 Forumite
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    Yes, that is exactly what they are saying, Nasqueron.
  • You can prove your case if you have some kind of tracker on your phone, for example Google maps can track your movement.
    All that may prove is where the phone was, not where the OP or the car were.
    A few months ago, mobile phone was sitting beside my bed in the UK whilst I was over 4000 miles away from it. (forgot to pick it up before I left for the airport).
  • Nasqueron
    Nasqueron Posts: 11,085 Forumite
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    flea72 wrote: »
    Yes, that is exactly what they are saying, Nasqueron.


    The point being, that's clearly not normal and nobody in their right mind would believe them

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

  • Mercdriver
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    All that may prove is where the phone was, not where the OP or the car were.
    A few months ago, mobile phone was sitting beside my bed in the UK whilst I was over 4000 miles away from it. (forgot to pick it up before I left for the airport).

    It doesn't need to be proved to the level of a criminal offence, just to the balance of probabilities. I think the other side will have difficulties on that level bearing in mind the OP would ned to have been speeding the whole time he had the car.
  • Mercdriver
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    jk0 wrote: »
    Presumably this is being charged to your credit card? I would refuse to pay the credit card bill.

    One of the most unwise pieces of advice - oh and I'm not trolling - just like another user wasn't.

    Better advice would be for the OP to speak to his credit card company and object to the charge to the account.
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