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Prepaying Car rental with Credit Card in a different name
« on: September 04, 2015, 12:09:59 PM »
I need to rent a car in Israel (TLV airport) for 3 weeks over Sukkos this year. I want to prepay the whole rental, including insurance, beforehand so that I can be easily reimbursed for the rental. The issue is it's from a business card that's not in my name and all the companies I looked at said the name on the credit card must match the drivers name (even though we are prepaying).

Hertz and Sixt, both have comparable rates so if one would be better for this than the other I can go with either one.

Anyone have experience with this? Thanks!

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Re: Prepaying Car rental with Credit Card in a different name
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2015, 12:24:43 PM »
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Re: Prepaying Car rental with Credit Card in a different name
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2015, 12:52:28 PM »
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Re: Prepaying Car rental with Credit Card in a different name
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2015, 01:02:50 PM »
Hertz and sixt said its ok for the cc not to match name on rental? Better double check that. I never heard of that being ok

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Re: Prepaying Car rental with Credit Card in a different name
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2015, 04:02:34 PM »
Hertz and sixt said its ok for the cc not to match name on rental? Better double check that. I never heard of that being ok
Hertz and Sixt allowed me to prepay however they say the name that we prepay with has to match. It's different then showing up to the rental counter with a card  thats not in my name.

I'll give them my own credit card at the counter to hold against damages however why would they care at the counter which card prepaid for the rental which is in my name.

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Re: Prepaying Car rental with Credit Card in a different name
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2015, 03:30:37 PM »
I can arrange it for you, i will charge the card you went to charge the rental on, in the US, and i will issue you a voucher on your name, and you pick up the car with the voucher.
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