Posted on 02/28/2018 8:18:38 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
Hertz has joined several other top car rental companies in cutting ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA).
The company wrote on Twitter on Friday that it would stop offering a discount on rental cars to NRA members.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
We have notified the NRA that we are ending the NRA’s rental car discount program with Hertz.
Per orders from David Hogg
These Companies Are Sticking By The NRA
Man, getting to the point where I am going to have to go back to “Rent a Wreck”! Oh well, whatever it takes. :)
Others will take up the slack...
I bet the next quarter earnings start to tank at those companies who turned their back to the NRA and their 5 million plus members, not to mention the families and friends of said members.
That’s going to hurt Hertz!
What do these companies expect to achieve with this Virtue Signalling?
Do they think there were people who didn’t do business with them because they gave NRA members a discount?
If so, that’s an idiotic notion.
The concern of most people is getting a price break themselves - not stopping others from getting a break.
Most have no idea of who else gets a break and who doesn’t.
Do they think NRA members won’t take offense and avoid renting from them whenever possible?
That’s another idiotic notion.
The NRA isn’t the AARP.
People belong to the NRA because they have strong feelings about their 2nd Amendment rights - not just to get travel discounts and restaurant coupons.
And an attack on the NRA is viewed as a back door attack on the 2nd Amendment.
Who cares? Last time I had a Hertz rental, the company was paying for it, not me. Their rates were always far higher than Budget or even Avis. Without company travel groups using them, they would never last with those prices.
I see Avis and Budget are joining in. That is OK, I do not travel anymore.
Uber is chomping at the bit. Renting a car is a convenience most of the time.
I used https://www.sixt.com/ last week in Miami, great service price and selection.
Someone posted that Thrifty hasn’t come out against the NRA. But they didn’t offer a discount that I could find. But at least they were smart enough to not get involved.
The first car rental company to cut a new deal with the NRA is going to see their business double.
Very strange that they are listening to a bunch of teenagers who are broke.
Probably their earnings will go up by charging NRA members regular prices without the discount.
Well, my Hertz #1 card was just cut up and placed in the round file!
Hertz is going to have to find a new ceo. The current is going to be unemployed shortly.
I don’t think that is the reason. It is a 2-fer by charging more without the discount -and- gain more i
liberal anti-gun customers.
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