{"id":469,"date":"2018-03-16T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2018-03-16T16:12:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:12:53","slug":"enterprise-car-hire-is-this-what-you-call-dynamic-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/enterprise-car-hire-is-this-what-you-call-dynamic-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Car Hire, is this what you call dynamic pricing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to rent a car in Germany for a couple of days:\u00a0 The price was \u20ac166.90.\u00a0 The start date is in the top left of the picture, highlighted below. Tues, 3 Apr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h30m06s_005.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-466 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h30m06s_005.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"844\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h30m06s_005.png 1972w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h30m06s_005-300x152.png 300w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h30m06s_005-768x390.png 768w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h30m06s_005-1024x520.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 844px) 100vw, 844px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My plane times were a bit unhelpful for an easy drop off without wasting a lot of time at the airport to save on another day&#8217;s rental.\u00a0 I wondered how much extra it would be if I actually added another couple of hours to the drop off time.\u00a0 It would probably add a whole day, I thought.\u00a0 I was right.\u00a0 However, the price of this extra day shocked me:\u00a0 it was minus \u20ac47.38.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h34m39s_006.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-467 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h34m39s_006.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1972\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h34m39s_006.png 1972w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h34m39s_006-300x152.png 300w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h34m39s_006-768x390.png 768w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h34m39s_006-1024x520.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1972px) 100vw, 1972px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes,\u00a0It would save me \u20ac47.38 to hand it in an hour late, which was surprising.\u00a0 So I wondered how many days extra I could book before it cost me more than the original 2 days.\u00a0 Four?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h19m48s_003.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-468 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h19m48s_003.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2007\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h19m48s_003.png 2007w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h19m48s_003-300x153.png 300w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h19m48s_003-768x393.png 768w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_14h19m48s_003-1024x523.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2007px) 100vw, 2007px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow!\u00a0 Even doubling the hire period would still cost me \u20ac22.30 less than hiring for two days.\u00a0 How about a week?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_15h42m21s_007.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_15h42m21s_007.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1972\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_15h42m21s_007.png 1972w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_15h42m21s_007-300x152.png 300w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_15h42m21s_007-768x390.png 768w, http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Snap_2018.03.16_15h42m21s_007-1024x520.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1972px) 100vw, 1972px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WTF?! It is cheaper to have the car for an entire seven days than it is for two.<\/p>\n<p>My conclusion is that renting from another place altogether would be a good option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to rent a car in Germany for a couple of days:&nbsp; The price was &euro;166.90.&nbsp; The start date is in the top left of the picture, highlighted below. Tues, 3 Apr. My plane times were a bit unhelpful for an easy drop off without wasting a lot of time at the airport to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/enterprise-car-hire-is-this-what-you-call-dynamic-pricing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enterprise Car Hire, is this what you call dynamic pricing?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,1],"tags":[95,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chineseelvis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}