{"id":10234,"date":"2023-10-26T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10234"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:20:56","slug":"getting-cheap-car-rental-rates-aka-one-weird-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/26\/getting-cheap-car-rental-rates-aka-one-weird-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Cheap Car Rental Rates: AKA One Weird Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Carol C. mentioned this on FB<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am mystified by Budget Car Rental&#8217;s business strategy. Routinely, if I reserve a car a month in advance, the daily rate is very high (up to $100 a day). However, if I then modify the reservation slightly (e.g., moving the time of pick-up back or forward by half an hour) closer to the day, the cost goes way down. Recent example: $80 a day initial cost, reduced to $36 when I modified. The cost almost never goes up when I modify (and if it does, I simply cancel the modification).<\/p>\n<p>Why on earth would Budget want to discourage early reservations by using a rate that is much higher than they can realistically expect to get with later ones?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Carol C. mentioned this on FB I am mystified by Budget Car Rental&#8217;s business strategy. Routinely, if I reserve a car a month in advance, the daily rate is very high (up to $100 a day). However, if I then modify the reservation slightly (e.g., moving the time of pick-up back or forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10235,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions\/10235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}