Very cheap, very easy and quick to get a quote and apply. Also, it covers tyre and windscreen, and you can pay by PayPal, so no charge for credit card! Highly recommended. Excellent!!!!!
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Ultimate Guide To Rental Car Insurance (Guest Post)
Guest Blog Post
You’ve heard this one. It’s the birthday of someone special. In your opportune hours of kindness and generosity, you planned to put them behind the wheel of a nice car and travel somewhere special, maybe even somewhere magical. You didn’t purchase rental car insurance.
Things didn’t go as planned.
It might have been an accidental dent on your door from a nearby car, or perhaps you were simply blamed for damage that you missed during the inspection when you were at peak excitement for the adventure ahead. Was it really your fault? You hand the keys back with a whopping $5000 hit to your credit card and a sour taste in your mouth as you utter… more>
Latest Car Rental Excess Insurance Claim Review
The latest claims review for our car rental excess insurance product from another satisfied customer
by far the best insurance company I dealt with
A Question from one of Our Customers
Jerzy:
“I recently purchased Tripcover for a rental car hire.
After picking up the car, I realised that the car had existing damage that I had not reported on the Damage Form that I signed.
I am concerned that I may have to pay the excess to Budget and put in a claim if they try to say the damage occurred during my rental period.
I have been looking over your claim form in case I need to complete it.
Can you please tell me what you mean by Police or Accident report and what you would require for this type of damage so that I can be prepared if Budget charge me the excess for this damage.”
Tripcover Team Member:
The police report is only needed if it was a significant accident Kate.
This is a common trick the car rental companies can play with their customers.
Always pays to walk around the car and video it or take a few pics.
How to Fix Your Car Rental Excess Insurance Problem
Maybe ANGER is a tool for observing a problem but not for fixing it!
Don’t let the car rental companies get you angry anymore fix the excess insurance problem using Tripcover!
Travel Insurance Vs Tripcover Car Rental Excess insurance
Email enquiry from one of our customers at Tripcover
Karl: “As I am in the process of taking out a policy, I’m somewhat puzzled by the fact that one of your competitors “I Cover” provides supposedly similar cover as yours but the cost is less than half. How can this be?
Furthermore their policy also covers a number of other benefits.
Thanking you.”
Tripcover’s Reply
“Hi Carl, but they cannot say and do not say that they cover windscreens, undercarriage, tyres, lights and single vehicle accidents in their PDS because they don’t generally as they only cover what the standardexcess or CDW that the car rental companies offer.
But it is a free market, you can buy travel insurance which is what they offer or you can buy our specialist car rental excess cover. Up to you.”
PS Karl’s reply was as follows:
“Many thanks.This would be a great brief for a PR campaign for Tripcover. For as a consumer, it can be very confusing out there.
My initial suspicion was based on the value for price/offering, which prompted me to investigate further, and the unclear answers I got back from them.
Thank you for getting back to me, so I can now take out a Tripcover policy, as well as passing on the information to family, friends and contacts.
Best wishes
Karl
The Checkout, Reviews Car Hire – Rental Industry
The Checkout Australia reviews the car hire industry and suggests to use Tripcover to save on the car rental excess insurance.
Why Tripcover is Cheaper Than Allianz
JOSEY WROTE:
I am thinking about purchasing a rental vehicle excess insurance and have a question regarding the quotes on your website.
I see that the insurance you provide is from Allianz. I have asked Allianz for a quote and their premium is higher than yours for a 16 day rental:
$4000 AUD excess with Allianz costs $281 AUD and with you $135 AUD
$6000 AUD excess with Allianz costs $383 AUD and with you $295 AUD
Can you please help me understand why is there such a difference? Is the cover the same regardless of getting it through you or through the Allianz website?
Thank you.
MY REPLY WAS:
Exact same policy Josey, only you are paying a premium with Allianz and Hiccup (they are the system provider) as they are covering
21 to 75 year olds in the same policy.
We have split our policy up to:
25 to 75 and
21 to 24 year olds
So if you were 22 years old our’s would cost you around the same price as with Allianz
Europcar fined $100,000 – Federal Court Finds Rental Terms ‘Unfair And Void’
They are at it again, this time it is Europcar and last week it was hertz…..
“Europcar Australia will be forced to pay $100,000 after the competition watchdog convinced the Federal Court the rental car group misled customers in its 2013 rental agreement…..more>
Hertz to refund hundreds of customers it falsely accused of damaging rental cars
Rental car giant Hertz has been forced to refund hundreds of aggrieved customers amounts totalling $395,000 because it had charged them for damage they did not cause.
Following an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission investigation, Hertz admitted that between November 2013 and August last year it had incorrectly charged customers for causing damage to a rental car that was in fact pre-existing………..
>Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/hertz-to-refund-hundreds-of-customers-it-falsely-accused-of-damaging-rental-cars-20160405-gnymfe.html#ixzz450TGsl46
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