{"id":11678,"date":"2026-07-10T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11678"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:44:26","slug":"routes-car-rental-scam-not-legit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/10\/routes-car-rental-scam-not-legit\/","title":{"rendered":"Routes Car Rental &#8211; scam &#8211; not legit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expedia asked me what I thought of their service. Here&#8217;s what I had to say:<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, I was scammed by Routes car rental at FLL airport. It wasn&#8217;t a disagreement, it was a scam they very intentionally perpetrated on myself and every other person in the car rental center there at 6:00 in the morning. I have an audio recording of the entire terrible experience. After working with Expedia for a few weeks (several emails and 3 long telephone calls) I finally got the scam charges removed from my account by Expedia. I am thankful that Expedia did that for me! It is sinful that Routes car rental is still allowed on the Expedia platform. Here are details about my experience: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/routes-car-rental-scam-at-fort-lauderdale-airport-fll\/\">https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/routes-car-rental-scam-at-fort-lauderdale-airport-fll\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Routes car rental&#8217;s predatory practices tarnishes the reputation of Expedia and costs you money in refunds, unhappy customers, and customer service calls. Please strongly consider dropping them as a service provider.<\/p>\n<p>The Routes agent told me that she handled all of the calls for Routes Car Rental, NextCar, Mex, and Advantage Car Rental. I assume these companies are as shady as Routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expedia asked me what I thought of their service. Here&#8217;s what I had to say: A few months ago, I was scammed by Routes car rental at FLL airport. It wasn&#8217;t a disagreement, it was a scam they very intentionally perpetrated on myself and every other person in the car rental center there at 6:00 [&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-11678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678","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=11678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11679,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions\/11679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}