Originally Posted by hallstevenson
Originally Posted by csandste
Hertz sales people don't normally try to close sales, they're busy handing out keys and starting paperwork.
I think Hertz has some dedicated sales locations or at least people who do in fact "sell" their cars.
There's two kinds of Hertz sales, certified and rent to own. In St. Louis there's a single sales point for both kinds of sales, unlike Enterprise which has numerous locations (selling at a premium) and Avis, which here at least is rent to own from a rental point. When I've been there, there's a ton of customers and a couple of sales people on the floor. It's a mad house with lots of customers coming in and trying cars. Not like a typical used car buying experience at all. They'll get one or two cars pulled out for you to try (I usually email first) and will be juggling you with many other customers. No one tries to close on you, you'll be lucky if they have time to throw you another key. I much prefer this to a dealer type experience.
This location is about five miles from the airport. I bought a certified car. My girlfriend bought a rent to own Optima and we had to wait for them to bring the car from the airport (they have drivers for this), it did not have the certified check list and servicing, it was cleaned just like it was going out for another rent cycle. On their web site they will have rent to own cars showing up a week or so before they're going into the rent to own program. Certified cars cost more than the rent to own cars by a hundred bucks or so. The certified twelve month warranty is meaningless in a HyunKia because they have the 60K warranty and most cars are being sold with upper thirties mileage. Sometimes less, sometimes quite a bit more.