OT car rental rates

1) At https://www.alamo.com/en_US/car-rent...selectCar.html

(You may have to start at
https://www.alamo.com/en_US/car-rent...l-airport.html
Click Book Now and maybe rent for at least a week to get the offer
below. I chose Feb 3 to Feb 10. )

You can get a compact or larger car for $175 if you don't say what you
want.

This is $43 cheaper than economy and 54 cheaper than compact. If you
were planning to rent economy or compact, who wouldn't choose the Drive
Happy Deal.

Are the higher prices there just to confuse the buyer and make him think
he's getting a deal?



2) I don't really want to rent a car at the moment, but I was trying to
find out if convertibles are for rent other than in Florida and
California. So I tried Houston, Mobile, and New Orleans with
Enterprise, Alamo, and nnnn respectively and no one offered one, even
though it's pretty darn warm in those places.

When I added convertible to the search terms for New Orleans I got
different pages altogether and ond
https://www.rentalcars.com/SearchRes... =convertible#
offered a Mustang from Enterprise, national, budget, or Alamo, for 757
to 777 a week. Over 3 times the compact car at Alamo in Houston,

But not that much more than a compact sedan from rentalcars.com, 512 a
week. Wait a second. That's the small car but the intermediate car is
less, 367 and even the full size car is less 443. How come, and who
would pay 512 for a compact car

I rented Lebaron Convertible in Tampa once, to try it before I bought
one, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't very expensive.

And if all these companies have convertibles to rent, how come there
isn't the slightest mention of them in the companies' own webpages
afaict? Even if they rent them from someone else to rent to me,
wouldn't it be good for both them and the ultimate supplier if they said
they had them?

On 1/28/2018 4:19 PM, micky wrote:

2) I don't really want to rent a car at the moment, but I was trying to
find out if convertibles are for rent other than in Florida and
California. So I tried Houston, Mobile, and New Orleans with
Enterprise, Alamo, and nnnn respectively and no one offered one, even
though it's pretty darn warm in those places.

It has been a few years, but I've rented convertibles twice in Las
Vegas. An Eclipse and a Sebring.