Disgusting behavior. Here is our story point by point:
1) We ordered VW Caddy (2015) from August 7 to 15. When I asked if we can have it until 17, he said no problem. I asked him specifically if it will be really Caddy, he said yes. It was not possible to change the date in the system, but I believed him...
2) We arrived at the airport and there was no Caddy, but very old Mazda 5. He said he didn't have the Caddy, because I wanted it for longer time. I said "but I made sure it was Caddy and you said yes" and the only suggestion he made was "ok so do not take the car". Well we took it anyway – this shit car for the SAME price as Caddy – 45eur/day, because we were exhausted from the travelling and couldnt suddenly be without a car. Very soon we knew we shouldn't have taken it.
3) The car itself was in a horrible condition, when I was driving the streets of Albany, I could see why. Car from 2008 just can't survive in these conditions. The transmission was so overused, (no wonder, it had 300k+ kilometers), in the hot weather it was not possible to use the AC, because the car was overheating and had no power occasionally, we sometimes had to even get out of the car and let it cool down AND the car stopped braking at some point.
4) At this point we got too scared and I asked him to come to Durres (30 mins from Tirana) to pick the car up and give us refund or provide another functioning car. He was taking time to "find another car" and saying he just doesn't have time, that he is busy. No help – we in the end bought new brake fluid and it got a bit better, so when I imagined we will give this car back and have to get ANOTHER car for the rest of the 4 days, I rather said we will keep it in the end and adjusted our trip in a way that the car could handle it (no long distances, no hills etc. – imagine howmany places we couldn’t see as we planned just because we had shitty car)
5) You would expect this is already the worst that happened but I can tell you it just started. On the last day, I asked him if we can get some money back for all the trouble, danger and general horrible experience. He said I should suggest the amount, so I asked for 100eur back. He started playing victim like he is at loss like that and yet receives a bad comment so I said he can give us 200eur back and there will be no negative comment. He said he was only testing me and that i am stupid.
5) Of course he was too scared to come pick the car up himself (!) but sent some guy to pick it up. We cleaned the car and actually got it in better condition (fixed the brakes and spent money on buying the fluid) and he, because of the comment I made about the refund, demanded to keep 50eur for CLEANING from the 200eur deposit. His guy even confirmed it is not about the cleaning but the fact I asked about refund! Please, keep in mind the cleaning is not 50 eur anywhere, not even Albany... 1000 LEK maximum (but how would I know if I am so stupid and – as he said – can’t drive). When I had him on the phone and told him if he is being serious to charge us 50eur from our deposit for this shit car, he said this "offer" is gone and we get NO money back suddenly. The man just couldn't handle a woman saying his car is shit over the phone.
6) His friend that came to pick up the car then said we are just not getting any money and if we are unhappy, we should call the police. When we acted like we did, he gave me the 200eur suddenly. At this point we just left the keys on the car and left him waiting there for the „fake“ police. We were scared he would actually come hurt us, because we really weren't sure what is this corrupted man actually capable of when he was treating us like this the whole time...
7) Please be careful – I think he doesn't even have the cars he has on his profile because the pictures are fake (he downloads them from the internet, some of the cars are from Auto Esa which is a czech car seller haha) but I didn't notice this before, so I am saying this here so no one else gets his trip THIS MUCH ruined.
Horrible experience, but this poor little man makes an insulting comment on my profile only, so nothing else happened to us.
Well, I never experienced anything like this, people be careful and do not rent his cars.