Garenta / Adana (Dicle Otomotiv FZA)…
Garenta / Adana (Dicle Otomotiv FZA) car rental. Do not rent it!!
We have been terribly deceived by Garenta / Adana (Dicle Otomotiv FZA). Since August 22, 2023, we have been trying to get our money back. What have they done?
This is my first review (explanation of the situation on all review platforms):
On July 22, 2023, I rented a car from the Garenta branch at Adana Airport. I paid €893.80 (25,900.50 TL) in cash to Mr. B. Ö, the sales advisor (Diclefza Fza Otomotiv San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.). However, upon returning from my vacation, I discovered that on July 22, 2023, €893.80 had been charged to my credit card. Despite email and WhatsApp correspondence with Garenta and Mr. B. Ö, we have received no response to our request for a refund. I kindly request you to process my refund request, which also includes the use of security cameras at the airport (for which I will contact the relevant authorities). Furthermore, we still have not received a refund, even though we confirmed by email immediately after payment that we had paid 25,900.50 TL and sent this confirmation to you. Your customer service did not pay attention to the matter and closed the case by emailing that there was no problem! We objected to this email. We received no response to this objection:
Dear responsible party, I object. As I have previously written, I paid €893.80 in cash to the staff at the entrance of your office, which corresponds to 25,900.50 TL. On the same day, this amount was charged to our credit card. I have already sent you a copy of the credit card statement, but I will send it again. Additionally, there is an email confirmation that we paid in cash. As you know, there are security cameras everywhere in the domestic terminals, and we can check there as well. This matter is not closed for us. We paid in cash and €893.80 was charged to our credit card on the same day. I kindly request the overcharged €893.80 to be refunded to us today. Best regards,
Still no response.
Of course, they did not respond to this. Today, we finally received a response requesting evidence. What it turns out is that we had become victims of Carjet in the middle of the night. Carjet had not updated the information to Garenta, which is open until 1:00 Turkish time. We landed at 1:45, and Carjet should have assigned us to another car rental company. (That is another story.)
On the fateful day, we spent a day in a hotel in Adana and waited for the Garenta branch to open in the morning. When the branch opened, Mr. B. Ö. told us the following: "When you go to the Netherlands, you will have to deal with Carjet yourself. At this moment, we can't do anything for you." After arriving in the Netherlands, my husband, Mr. Remzi, contacted them by phone. Mr. Remzi told us that they did not accept cash, but this is not true; for the first reservation through Carjet/Garenta, we also had to pay the car rental amount in cash. It was explicitly stated in the order confirmation that we had to pay in cash. So we had also paid in cash for the new reservation. Apparently, that is the procedure at Garenta.
The continuation of the story: Mr. B. Ö. then told us that we needed to rent a new car. We agreed and asked for a receipt as proof of payment. However, Mr. B. Ö. said, "I will send you an email with the details of your payment," and immediately sent an email. Due to exhaustion, we believed the contents of the email without reading it. This was clearly a mistake.
However, we had never thought that a big company like Garenta, especially at a domestic terminal at Adana Airport, would deceive us. When we read the contents of the email after our vacation (which only said "paid" but didn't specify how it was paid), and saw that an amount had been charged to our credit card, we were in shock. This was an organized form of fraud. Do not rent from this company; they are scammers. We cannot get our €893.80 back to this day. You have been warned!!
Date of experience: July 22, 2023
22 juli 2023
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