Most car rental companies have long required that their customers use a credit card when reserving a car. Renting a car with a debit card has always meant incurring restrictions and extra fees. But thanks to the rising number of frugal customers who don’t have or don’t want to use credit cards, that’s finally changing.
Dollar Rent-a-Car just announced its new policy specifically aimed at making it easier than ever to reserve a car using a debit card. In a release, the company said its new policy “will eliminate credit checks, reduce proof of return travel and ID requirements, while also lowering the car rental age restriction from 25 to 20 years old.” Thifty will offer the same policy. Hertz owns both companies.
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Under the new policy, rentals booked more than 24 hours in advance will only require a debit card and driver’s license. Dollar is also reducing the incidental hold amount from $350 to $200, plus the cost of the rental, for both debit card and credit card rentals. Rentals booked less than 24 hours in advance, or rentals for specialty vehicles, will require two forms of identification and proof of return travel plans.
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“Rental car companies tend to view debit-card customers as riskier than those who pay with credit cards,” writes Josh Barro of New York Magazine‘s Intelligencer. “They take the lack of a credit card as a warning sign of bad credit, and therefore think a renter who wishes to pay with a debit card may beless trustworthy with an expensive piece of equipment like a car. They also worry a debit card may be linked to an account that doesn’t contain enough cash to satisfy unexpected charges a customer might incur, such as for a late return.”
Credit cards give rental car companies some protection in the event of a worst-case scenario. If a debit card customer drives off into the sunset with a rental, the company’s recourse is limited to whatever case is available in the customer’s account. Do you have enough money in your debit account to cover the retrieval and likely repair or even replacement of a late-model Ford Focus? Probably not. And you aren’t alone. With a credit card, the company is more likely to receive some compensation for its loss or hardship.
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However, the credit card policy has long inconvenienced a large swath of customers, especially younger people. Most car rental companies forbid debit card rentals to customers under
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