Goldcar Reviews

Name: Goldcar
Rating: 1.09

1.1 Rating 361 Reviews

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Based on 361 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Own Driver
On-time Delivery	Greater than 40%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 60%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.1 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Returns Process	Could Be Better

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“They added extras to my car rental at Malaga airport (in Spanish!!) without saying one word. These extras ( no agreement by or aby discussion with me even for one second) were only realised by me than I realised they had taken over 200 Euros of my credit car. Do under no circumstances rent a car from Goldcar at the Malaga airport. I had no problems with this company in Faro, Portugal but in Malaga they will try to defraud you. Will never use this company again!!!! Diese Firma wird versuchen dich zu betruegen, extras werden ohne Diskussion auf deiner Rechnung auftauchen. Miete unter keinen Umstaenden von dieser Firma am Flughafen in Malaga. Sie werden versuchen dich abzuzocken. Sein gewarnt. Widerliche Geschaeftspraktiken.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Extra charged were added without any discussion or agreement at the airport. I Spanish ! So this is fraund itsn't it ? I had booked the car via carrental.co.uk and prepaid. I only realised that they had smuggled extras which I never would have wanted when I saw on my credit card whta they had charged me over 200 Euros !! Do under no circumstances book a car with them at Malaga airport in Spain”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Second time I've used this company. I'd forgotten I'd used them before during the 'great car dent rip off scam' several years ago where I lost €500. Thankfully, I got it back as the company had a massive fine, and my insurance paid out but back to December this year. Would not accept my third party comprehensive insurance specifically for car hire, charged me a lot of money for their own insurance as they qould kit let me take the car, charged me €150 euros to cross 4 miles away into Italy. Got stopped by the police and fined €60.90 for not having snow tyres/chains. Went back to the airport at the end of the week only to be told that the police were lying to me. I informed them that a: The Italian police told me that Goldcar do this regularly, and b: I drive HGV's for a living and that indeed, the police were right, no snow tyres/chains. The face went white, photoglcopies were taken, assurances were made that I would be repayed. Nada. Complained to Goldcar, email came back to say that they don't provide snow chains etc, that I should have bought them and fitted than in my workshop that I carry in my back pocket. The company knew the rules, and they gave me 2 fingers. NEVER use this company. They have literally millions of bad reviews, been fined etc and are actually owned by Europcar! My Lord Europcar! Sell this bad debt and get rid of the thieves you employ! My fault for not checking and forgetting about this company!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“It's a big scam, after the rental period they took another 700 euros from my account when I contacted them to ask why and they should refund this money they hang up for 5 times, promised me e-mail answer for 3 times and told me that they did not take that money. Clearly, my bank statement says otherwise.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“These people are scammers. Don’t trust them. Don’t give them credit card details, they charge your card without your consent”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Horrendous, deceitful company. Took out full car insurance prior to travel. When collecting my car no mention of charging me extra for travel insurance. Was totally scammed. My credit card company, Nationwide, declined to help and the financial ombudsman was useless. Cost an extra £200 for insurance I had already purchased. Do not use Goldcar in Malaga”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Never Ever Rent with this company. If you do make sure you take a full set of photos of every inch of the car. Better still get the insurance salesman commonly known as the customer services agent sitting behind the Goldcar Rental Desk at Malaga Airport to come and inspect the car with you before you drive it away. You must ensure you both agree any damage and get them to sign in blood if you have to. I have just been charged £293.68 for damage that was already on a 15000 kilometer car. Make sure you get an inspection when you return the car to the drop point. Don't do as I did when I asked for someone to sign it off and accept a member of staff telling me to drop the keys in the box and they would refund the petrol charge once they had checked It was returned full. Whilst they took this money from my credit card within 48hours for their pre arranged damage, they have so far failed to return my petrol refund. On that subject of fuel charges beware of their highly inflated petrol charges as although you return the car back full you only get about half of their original charge for a full tank back. Used them for the past 8 years Never Again.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Avoid this car hire company they cannot be trusted at all. Even if you book their insurance and take the car on a fuel full and return with a full tank, they still only refunded around half my fuel cost despite it stating it would be fully refunded when returned full which it was with photos to prove. Having contacting them more than 6 times including through their portal my issue has been totally ignored. Will not be using again. It is not worth considering using them especially if you are not wanting to take their insurance, as they insist on you taking out their insurance.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“do not rent Goldcar, if you reserve and do not show up at the exact time, they keep your money and you do not get the car. they refer to their conditions I have never seen. whole story: My plane was delayed and goldcar office in Reus was closed when I arrived. The reservation does not even state the office hours in Reus. I called goldcar. The man said nothing can be done I have to come tomorrow. So I stayed in a hotel 15 min away and I did return next day. The agent in Reus told me since I did not pick up the car, the car is gone. He also said the money is gone and I should call customer service, nothing he can do. He was friendly but helpless. He offered me to rent another car for 1 week and 300 euros. Not to keep up the line with 20 nice dutch people, I left with a taxi. So next to the hotel stay and two taxi rides am I correct to understand that you do not repay the reservation for a car that you did not reserve for the rented period I paid for? I have never experienced such a bad customer service – not based on the agents but on the company policies and conditions. I wrote them and they refused to pay the money back. 500 euros lost, but that is the smallest issue. The experience is awful and traumatic.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“The rental itself was OK, however 50 days later I still have not received my car deposit back (over 1200 Euro). There has been no damage to the car, only the company has not paid me back. After 30 days I contacted them and was told they needed my IBAN for the refund (although when returning the car I had made sure it would be done directly to the card used for payment, which they confirmed), 15 days later still nothing and they keep telling me that a payment can take up to 15 days to appear on my account (but 15 days have already passed!!). Absolutely unreliable, I won`t rent with them again.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Do not use the Goldcar rentals. I had a 13 day reservation for a vehicle at Jerez Cadiz Airport at a cost of 446 euros. Due to an airline weather cancellation that delayed our family vacation for 24 hours, Goldcar did not provide me the vehicle or provide a refund or voucher for a future rental. The Goldcar representative said it was in the contract for no car or refund if not picked up on time. They were not concerned that me and the family did not have a way to move in a foreign country. Please do not use this service or you will end up in the same predicament.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Bad experience Don't rent from them”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Lucky to get one star. I caught Covid whilst on holiday and Goldcar saw this as an opportunity to make big bucks off me. I contacted them to extend the contract and they charged me £270 for two days hire of a Fiat 500. Then they said I hadn’t contacted them and kept my £176 deposit. They refuse to reply to my emails so it’s now down to a claim through my credit card. Please do not deal with this company as it always ends badly….”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I got a car that had been in an accident (which I noticed on inspecting it upon receipt). Upon mentioning this, I got the remark back that it was fixed and I'm fully insured anyway. Half way during our trip, the brakes start making very weird noises. The road assistance was reasonably quick (1.5 hours to pickup), but then the fact that we needed a taxi of 1.5hours to Thessaloniki, and then wait another 1.5 hours there for them to arrange another car is a Huge waste of a vacation day. Long story short, i do NOT recommend Gold car anymore. Find another car rental company if you read this. P.s. prices are definitely not low, so I was expecting a lot more.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“We booked a car in advance at Barcelona airport without insurance. The lady (staff) at the Goldcar desk tried to deceive us multiple ways. Here is how it went: First she tried to push us to buy insurance (roughtly 1.5x the price of the car rental) and to pay for some additional tax which she said was not included in the booking price. We said no. Then, because we have had only debit card, she told us there is a deposit roughly €1500 (this is correct and we did know that in advance) to cover damage etc. charged form the debit card. And then... she said there is 12% nonrefundable fee from that (it would be €180) which the bank will charge for the tansaction. She also said, that is the reason, why is better to buy insurance. She gave me business card with customer service number and said I can verify that. I pulled out phone to call them. She probably did not expect that and said that customer service is rented call center and that they know much less then them at the desk. At customer service line they said there is no such a fee (also, the transaction fee was not charged to my debit card later). So again, we said we will proceed without insurance. She gave us a paper and said to sign it at the bottom, that the rest of it is NOT IMPORTANT. We have read the paper and there were checkboxes "with insurance", "without insurance". Neither one was marked, so I bet, she would check whatever she would want (only my assumption). So I marked "without insurance" and signed at the bottom. At the end she asked us to sign the contract electronically on touchpad. We said we want to see the contract before signing it. She said ENOUGH and tore the already signed papers in parts. She said they will give us back rental price and deposit (fortunatelly this really happened later) and that they cancel the contract. We were left at the airport without car in the middle of the summer season, when the prices are high. Fortunatelly the competing car rental company know them and after hearing this story, they gave us a great discount (cheapest around, even it was 3x higher than original booking at Goldcar).”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Flight arrived earlier and couldn’t take the car. Terms and conditions wrong. They don’t say that for your petrol deposit you need credit card Made me paid 300 euros extra for their own errors.”

Goldcar 1 star review on 8th August 2021

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Posted 3 years ago

“Despicable company with zero customer service , took €1900 from my credit card with no correspondence or reason despite my hire car being returned in perfect condition and full of petrol. Avoid this.company like the plague”

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Posted 3 years ago

“After paying £209.34 and then an extra £76.56 for full insurance with Ryanair (No hidden extras!!) prior to leaving the UK to hire a Renault Clio at Fuerteventura airport with Goldcar for 12 days, Goldcar have then charged us an extra £328.66 to hire the car. This isn't the fault of Ryanair, but just a scam by Goldcar, reflected by hundreds of negative comments on the Facebook page and the @avoid_goldcar Twitter account, Which, amongst other places reviewing their service. I'm not holding my breath, but they still need to refund me another £225.03. I'll be happy to re-review them if that happens.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Original car-hire was for 5 days at a cost of £111.86 On arrival at Faro Airport to collect the car staff were extremely unhelpful, with some untrained 16-year old youth showing us our car! You will be asked for extra insurance cost, advance payment for motorway activation box in car and extortionate fuel allowance, when you are then presented with credit-type cards - these do not work when presented at the garage! On our return we were told that their was no rear luggage tray, which had not been in the car on collection, but the following day we received an invoice from Goldcar for 100 euros to cover the cost. Have lodged a formal complaint, but don't hold out much hope! Total cost of car-hire was £434.06 Extortionate rip-off!!!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Total Conmen I returned the car and there were no checks due to covid. Next thing I see a 350 euro charge on my credit card. First call, I was told the car was damaged asked for evidence, Second call, I was told the tyre was damaged asked for evidence. Third call, told the wheel was damaged. Finally got a photo of a random wheel with all meta data removed from the photo. I had a video of the car showing no damage to anything on return. Charge refunded by the credit card company as they are well aware of Goldcar scams. Still waiting for Fuel refund. Avoid Goldcar Malaga Airport at all costs.”

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Posted 4 years ago

Goldcar is rated 1.1 based on 361 reviews