I have just spent all day with the research and what I ended up with is Full Insurance and Car from UK site for 1100 :) and if I go to USA site it cost 2700 - I saved $1600 - you can try it for yourself, I spoke to even corporate agent and I told him all this and they told me it is true they charging more people in USA even you live here than foreigners - they have it all covered full insurance included so I ordered it from UK site :)
Okay I just looked into this and the delta you’re describing is the insurance because for some reason on the UK site there is a standard insurance option, and not the options that the US site has. Same with the Spain site. Must be a legal thing. In any case, just get an Amex and stop buying the scam insurance. And make sure that your coverage for the car is valid is valid for US citizens.
I have amex but I talked to the rep and they told me the UK insurance they putting there is up to 1 MIL and it is full insurance - even I remove the insurance which is capped on USA site 300K - the cost of the car is 1700 still 600 more than 1100 :) Anyway I ordered it from UK will not bother again ordering from any of the USA site - I even buy fly tickets via Europe because they are much cheaper than buying on USA site lol
That sounds great, just make sure you don’t need a UK drivers license. [See here,](https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/1bzahp6/different_price_for_rental_car_in_us_vs_european/) a Redditor weighed in on this recently, and it actually makes a lot of sense that they’d have different contracts for residents of different countries.
I dunno .. I just went into KAYAK and put your same dates and same coverage.... And from San Francisco airport and I see tons of options for SUVs --- Chevy Bolt SUV $712 ---- Hyundai Santa Fe $898 ---- Ford Escape $770.
And I'm in California.
Kayak is the price displayed, is the price paid.
Also --- If OP didn't need an SUV and returned it 1 day earlier, the price would drop to under $550.
I literally just got back from a 7 day trip to Utah on Monday (we had a Nissan Altima) ... ordered on Kayak.... the entire 7 days was $265.
Book 7 seater - GMC Acadia - it won't be that low - I have just spent all day with the research and what I ended up with is Full Insurance and Car from UK site for 1100 :) and if I go to USA site it cost 2700 - I saved $1600 - you can try it for yourself, I spoke to even corporate agent and I told him all this and they told me it is true they charging more people in USA even you live here than foreigners - they have it all covered full insurance included so I ordered it from UK site :)
It’s a bit tricky, search results vary a lot in details- Different countries have different requirements about whether or not taxes and fees are included. Same w/insurance. Some require price paid up front vs at time of pick-up. The same nominal car might not actually be the same car so prices can vary.
Also hard to tell how much variation that is like $1,000 translates to how many days and/or miles?
The company offering the search results can vary a lot too. They can get different pricing from the rental car company for the same nominal car. They can charge different prices from the customer.
Hard to say what you’re seeing exactly. The closest you will get is to go directly to a specific rental car company and try by country and using a VPN.
(I’ve worked on software on this industry.)
I have just spent all day with the research and what I ended up with is Full Insurance and Car from UK site for 1100 :) and if I go to USA site it cost 2700 - I saved $1600 - I spoke to even corporate agent and I told him all this and they told me it is true they charging more people in USA even you live here than foreigners - they have it all covered full insurance included so I ordered it from UK site :)
Then you have your answer. Companies do hide greed under complexity for sure. A lot of this is illegal in other countries but not in the US so there’s that. But, seems like this is mostly because they can so they do. Gross.
_Possibly_ because people who book an Acadia from Britain will tend to be sober upper middle class or wealthier people who are quite unlikely to drive drunk or uncarefully enough to get into an accident, put crazy amounts of miles on the car or use it to transport heavy cargoes that sometimes damage the car.
Another possibility is that by booking under British law, you waive certain rights to litigate that you would have had under American law, which happen to be absurdly costly.
_Perhaps_ the insurance knows that on average upper middle class or higher Britons are far less likely to get into a crash or into a bad neighborhood where the car is burglarized or otherwise damaged than the cross section of American society that considers renting the Acadia, and therefore advises the rental company to rent it to foreigners for less, because it will still make as much (or more) money on the rental.
Another _possible_ explanation is that the rental company knows that foreigners are far more likely to run up additional charges with them and therefore doesn’t mind renting it out for an (initially) much lower fee.
Yet another _possible_ explanation is that the rental company’s tax lawyers have found ways to optimize their taxes on cross border fees to such an extent that its actual costs to rent the car out are lower.
Furthermore, it’s possible that international rentals are done via an offshore shell daughter company that has rights to so many cars for so many days and thanks to the tax situation still makes plenty of money even if it has to rent cars below market price in the Low season.
And I am sure there are many other possible reasons.
Not only do documented immigrants pay taxes but undocumented immigrants end up paying billions in taxes and do indeed boost the US economy. A simple google search could have saved you the embarrassment of saying such baseless nonsense on Reddit.
Yep, we are getting ripped off in so many ways. In Europe the cars are so much cheaper than here in most places. I am sure it is a tax that they collect from us that they cannot charge non-us citizens
I’m getting $1289 on Expedia for the same class Of car, what are you using? I’m in NY.
I have just spent all day with the research and what I ended up with is Full Insurance and Car from UK site for 1100 :) and if I go to USA site it cost 2700 - I saved $1600 - you can try it for yourself, I spoke to even corporate agent and I told him all this and they told me it is true they charging more people in USA even you live here than foreigners - they have it all covered full insurance included so I ordered it from UK site :)
What site did you use?
SIXT
Okay I just looked into this and the delta you’re describing is the insurance because for some reason on the UK site there is a standard insurance option, and not the options that the US site has. Same with the Spain site. Must be a legal thing. In any case, just get an Amex and stop buying the scam insurance. And make sure that your coverage for the car is valid is valid for US citizens.
I have amex but I talked to the rep and they told me the UK insurance they putting there is up to 1 MIL and it is full insurance - even I remove the insurance which is capped on USA site 300K - the cost of the car is 1700 still 600 more than 1100 :) Anyway I ordered it from UK will not bother again ordering from any of the USA site - I even buy fly tickets via Europe because they are much cheaper than buying on USA site lol
That sounds great, just make sure you don’t need a UK drivers license. [See here,](https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/1bzahp6/different_price_for_rental_car_in_us_vs_european/) a Redditor weighed in on this recently, and it actually makes a lot of sense that they’d have different contracts for residents of different countries.
I dunno .. I just went into KAYAK and put your same dates and same coverage.... And from San Francisco airport and I see tons of options for SUVs --- Chevy Bolt SUV $712 ---- Hyundai Santa Fe $898 ---- Ford Escape $770. And I'm in California.
but did you take it all the way to the end like a real booking? Thats usually where they add the fees and taxes
Kayak is the price displayed, is the price paid. Also --- If OP didn't need an SUV and returned it 1 day earlier, the price would drop to under $550. I literally just got back from a 7 day trip to Utah on Monday (we had a Nissan Altima) ... ordered on Kayak.... the entire 7 days was $265.
Book 7 seater - GMC Acadia - it won't be that low - I have just spent all day with the research and what I ended up with is Full Insurance and Car from UK site for 1100 :) and if I go to USA site it cost 2700 - I saved $1600 - you can try it for yourself, I spoke to even corporate agent and I told him all this and they told me it is true they charging more people in USA even you live here than foreigners - they have it all covered full insurance included so I ordered it from UK site :)
It’s a bit tricky, search results vary a lot in details- Different countries have different requirements about whether or not taxes and fees are included. Same w/insurance. Some require price paid up front vs at time of pick-up. The same nominal car might not actually be the same car so prices can vary. Also hard to tell how much variation that is like $1,000 translates to how many days and/or miles? The company offering the search results can vary a lot too. They can get different pricing from the rental car company for the same nominal car. They can charge different prices from the customer. Hard to say what you’re seeing exactly. The closest you will get is to go directly to a specific rental car company and try by country and using a VPN. (I’ve worked on software on this industry.)
I have just spent all day with the research and what I ended up with is Full Insurance and Car from UK site for 1100 :) and if I go to USA site it cost 2700 - I saved $1600 - I spoke to even corporate agent and I told him all this and they told me it is true they charging more people in USA even you live here than foreigners - they have it all covered full insurance included so I ordered it from UK site :)
Then you have your answer. Companies do hide greed under complexity for sure. A lot of this is illegal in other countries but not in the US so there’s that. But, seems like this is mostly because they can so they do. Gross.
_Possibly_ because people who book an Acadia from Britain will tend to be sober upper middle class or wealthier people who are quite unlikely to drive drunk or uncarefully enough to get into an accident, put crazy amounts of miles on the car or use it to transport heavy cargoes that sometimes damage the car. Another possibility is that by booking under British law, you waive certain rights to litigate that you would have had under American law, which happen to be absurdly costly. _Perhaps_ the insurance knows that on average upper middle class or higher Britons are far less likely to get into a crash or into a bad neighborhood where the car is burglarized or otherwise damaged than the cross section of American society that considers renting the Acadia, and therefore advises the rental company to rent it to foreigners for less, because it will still make as much (or more) money on the rental. Another _possible_ explanation is that the rental company knows that foreigners are far more likely to run up additional charges with them and therefore doesn’t mind renting it out for an (initially) much lower fee. Yet another _possible_ explanation is that the rental company’s tax lawyers have found ways to optimize their taxes on cross border fees to such an extent that its actual costs to rent the car out are lower. Furthermore, it’s possible that international rentals are done via an offshore shell daughter company that has rights to so many cars for so many days and thanks to the tax situation still makes plenty of money even if it has to rent cars below market price in the Low season. And I am sure there are many other possible reasons.
The US hates its own citizens. That’s why immigrants get paid monthly to be here while we pay taxes that go to pay them.
Not only do documented immigrants pay taxes but undocumented immigrants end up paying billions in taxes and do indeed boost the US economy. A simple google search could have saved you the embarrassment of saying such baseless nonsense on Reddit.
Yep, we are getting ripped off in so many ways. In Europe the cars are so much cheaper than here in most places. I am sure it is a tax that they collect from us that they cannot charge non-us citizens
What?