Re: Car Rental: Refusal to take Check Cards

I don't know about car, but I had been able to rent bicycles and roller blades (2 other viable forms of transportations) with no difficulty at all using cash. They did not even ask for a credit card at all. Only once did they ask for a credit card, but they did not run anything through or make any calls when I checked the bike out; when I returned it, they gave me the original credit card slip (plus all copies) when I gave them cash to settle. If I wanted to, I could have run the credit card account dry and then rode off to nowhere. The bike was probably worth 1000 to 1500 dollars. Mark Allyn allyn@allyn.com