How to handle it
- Read the claim and check what it proves: the damage, that it happened during your rental, and the cost.
- Collect your evidence: contract, pick-up and return forms, your own photos.
- Object in writing to Thrifty, in your language and the office's language, with a deadline.
- No answer or a refusal? Go to the European Consumer Centre in your country.
- For a direct cross-border booking you can also use ECRCS after the complaint procedure of Thrifty.
- Amount already charged? Ask your card issuer about a chargeback in time.
Takes part in ECRCS
Thrifty is on Leaseurope's list of companies taking part in the European Car Rental Conciliation Service. For cross-border rentals booked directly, you can use it after the company's own complaint procedure. Leaseurope
Complaint address
The right address is usually in the claim email. The tool picks it up as soon as you upload the claim.
Booked through a comparison site?
Then your contract may be with the intermediary as well as Thrifty. Send your objection to both, and check the intermediary's terms for its own complaint procedure.
Part of the Hertz group.
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