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Green Motion Reviews

2.5 Rating 1,056 Reviews
38 %
of reviewers recommend Green Motion
2.5
Based on 1,056 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Own Driver
On-time Delivery
Greater than 74%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 70%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
2.2 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
Returns Process
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Green Motion 1 star review on 23rd April 2025
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Green Motion 1 star review on 9th January 2025
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Green Motion 1 star review on 26th November 2024
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Green Motion 1 star review on 26th November 2024
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Green Motion 1 star review on 26th November 2024
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Green Motion 1 star review on 15th August 2024
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Green Motion 1 star review on 8th August 2024
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Have to give 1 star as cannot give zero otherwise I would. They are a scamming car hire company that offers low rates and then tries to extort as much money from you as they can. Please Please Please avoid at all costs especially from the Edinburgh airport branch. You have been warned. Lee
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Posted 11 months ago
Booked a car online to pick up in Miami airport via Expedia. The location is far away, took 30 min to wait for shuttle. In the office waited 40 min having 2 customers ahead of mine. After spending all that time I found that Green Motion doesn't accept my insurance (via Costco) and I have to get their insurance which brings the rent cost too high. Declined. Asked for refund - got a lot of words why it is impossible to make it now. So I left and was charged full rent cost. Didn't even bother myself to call them after Advice: read all terms ahead of booking. I usually do, but the information critical to me (about the use of personal insurance) was not on a surface. Found it later when I knew what to look for. My failure, I accept it but I wish the service team treat customers better
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Posted 11 months ago
AVOID AVOID AVOID AT ALL COSTS! RIP YOU OFF FOR EVEN A SLIGHT SCRATCH AND CHARGE YOU AN EXTORTIONATE REPAIR CHARGE . USE A HONEST COMPANY NOT THESE. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
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Posted 11 months ago
Is there not an option for negative stars? Truly despicable customer service from the EDINBURGH office, absolutely appalling. Their records did not match the company who we went through to book a car rental, and despite that company telling them live on the phone this, they refused to provide us a car rental or any other solution because their records would take 48+ hours to update. Could see the manager peeking from the office and doing nothing to help, and the reps at the desk were so rude and unhelpful, even kicked us out of the office because they were closing and we aren't true customers - what?!? Now disputing the issue they have lied to the company we booked with saying we weren't even in the office before midnight when their office closed at 10pm and we have phone records proving we were in their office well before they closed and certainly not midnight. AVOID this company like the plague, despicable.
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Posted 11 months ago
This company’s offices in MUNICH airport are a joke. They have rented two cubicles at the Regus office premise. Furniture: two desks, 5 chairs, a table, a small cabinet and a roll up with the company logo. Staff: Eastern European youngsters who do not speak German and barely get by on English hey operator had to pass the phone to a customer so I could understand how to access the office). Employees totally overworked, overwhelmed and blaming each other, their manager and Owner for their work conditions. Service: it took me 60 minutes to enter the offices as the linguistically challenged person kept telling me to wait for him where I was, when he had time he would come and get me. He was unable to explain the alternative access and a customer helped me. Car: dirty, sticky, with a clutch that acts only in the last 10th of the pedal hub. Brakes scary. Air conditioning non existent. Tires tired. Over-all existing damages consistent. I have recorded all conversations and video recorded the car state before and after in all part just in case. I just don’t trust them! Stay far far away from them, even if they are cheap. You will regret it.
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Posted 11 months ago
😨 BEWARE of SCAM. Avoid FRAUD! ⚠️⚠️⚠️ Never ever even consider booking with them. They don’t deserve even 1 star! 1. We called their office before making a reservation to ask about a rental car to go from Batumi to Armenia. They said yes, go ahead and book. It will cost an additional $100. We emailed them our passport and ID. We booked via Expedia. 2. As soon as they got our money, they informed us that I need to drive to Tbilisi to get a paper. It’s a 5-hour drive! 3. Then they added that there are areas you can’t even drive because their insurance does not cover the area. Even if GPS takes you there, you can’t drive!! $800 penalty! 4. We asked to cancel the booking, they said they can’t because Expedia needs to cancel. 5. Expedia and we spent nearly three hours with them on the phone, and they refused to cancel. So, we kept the booking. 6. We came to Batumi Airport to get the car, there is no counter! No one there had ever heard of GreenMotion. We called the number we had, and once they heard our name, they hung up! No money, no car. We are dealing with the police, our bank, and Expedia to address it. This is totally wrong 😑
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Posted 11 months ago
Took our full £1505 deposit for a small chip in the windscreen that had nothing to do with us, if you Google search this company you will find they regularly perform this scam, there is even a Guardian newspaper article about them. Avoid at all costs please don’t get scammed as we have, currently trying to get our deposit back but not hopefull.
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Posted 11 months ago
*WARNING* PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!!! IT IS A SCAM!!!!! I rented a (apparently, brand new) Volvo that broke down 30mins down the road. When I called the number provided, I was given the 'run-around', and told to call a breakdown company. I did, and 4 hours later they sent a lorry. When it arrived, they took the car away leaving me on the side of the road, as they said they were unable to assist me further. The office basically left me out to dry, and I ended up with a 200 quid Uber ride to get me where I needed to be. I managed to block the transaction on my credit card, and got a full refund, and as annoying as the whole thing was, as far as I was concerned the matter was closed. Imagine my surprise when I got an email say that "After a full investigation" the car broke down due to "water in the engine", and that somehow I was liable. They then immediately attempted to bill my card nearly TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS!!! (They were, not surprisingly, unsuccessful). I have since changed my credit card, and blocked any further emails from Green Motion. This is a particularly dirty company, using very greasy business practices. SO, PLEASE AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!...... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.....
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Posted 11 months ago
Don't even think about renting a car with this company. SCAMMERS. We rented a van from Spain, and when we went to pick it up, they told us that type of van is only for industrial use and gave us a crappy Fiat 500 instead. We tried to get the car we reserved, and they threatened to cancel our booking. On top of that, the rude employee told us to go to Enterprise next door. An absolute disgrace. To top it off, they charged our account £2000 for damage to the car that we didn't cause. Just look on the Internet at the number of complaints they have for the same reason. HORRIBLE, SCAMMERS!!!
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Posted 11 months ago
DO NOT TRUST OR USE GREEN MOTION! When I went to pick up my car , Hreen Motion did not inform about the London Congestion zones charges! I am a student originally from Greece who stays for studies in Nottingham . I wasn’t aware of that and they were obligatory inform me , but the didn’t! After more than a month of returning the car, I receive an email stating that there was a PCN because of these congestion charges , that they dis not inform me for, that tgey paid without letting me know before , maybe I wanted to pay and not have the admin charge but they didn’t give me that option!!!!!! And in the email they stated that if I don’t pay the money will be taken from the card I used as deposit!!!! This is illegal!! I never agreed to them keeping my card details!!!!! They never gave me anything to sign that I approve that and their employee in the front desk, Jay, for sure didn’t mention that cause I asked if it just for the deposit and said YES!!! Before I even finish reading the email , I checked my bank account and saw that the money was taken from my account , even before sending me this email! I am calling and sending them emails constantly since yesterday, but they do not reply!!!!! Green motion is a scam!!!!
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Posted 11 months ago
Rented a car in Vienna airport and when showing at the location and called to the number, the phone was not on. Called the worldwide number which just told me to write an email due the high number of calls. Sent the mail to which after some hours I still don’t have an answer. After several attempts to call their contact I decided to use a taxi and go to their office 5 km away from the airport. Although is was still working hours the office was closed. So, I can’t rate the experience because they simply did not provide any, and all their contacts are useless. This is a scam that must stop. It is not acceptable to have this type of companies cheating people.
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Posted 11 months ago
Green Motion car rental Edinburgh was a total scam. Unfriendly and arrogant, totally reluctant to make a small correction in a abusively wrong spelled surname. Result: 300£ loss and a very “kind” new proposal of 865£ which we refused of course. Their business model is to rent the same car twice. We had to take the 300£ loss and went to Budget Car Rental. Budget were very friendly and helpfull. Green Motion is a scandalous scam.
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Posted 11 months ago
We rented a vehicle at London City Airport on the 11th of June for two days. The car rental inspection report showed pre-existing damage to 3 wheels, including the left front wheel. When we returned the car, the car rental company said we had damaged the wheel in the same spot that was on the original inspection report. We drove the car for 1 day with no recollection whatsoever of hitting any curb or any hazard that would have led to damage to a wheel. There were always two of us in the car, and neither one of us remembered anything. When we returned the vehicle, we were told there was damage to the left passenger wheel. We pointed out that it was there when we picked up the car. The agent said we had made it worse. They put two holds on our credit card for $1800 right away. They charged our credit card UK1535.00 for a new wheel, which we are clearly not fully responsible for. They have charged us for an entirely new wheel at an excessive rate. I wrote to them to ask how much the person who had caused the previous damage, which was much worse than what they alleged we had done, would be charged. I have a picture of the original damage and the damage they claim we did (which we dispute) and it is crystal clear that the damage they say we did in the same spot is much less than what was there already. I have no proof that this wheel was replaced only an invoice for the cost. My Insurance Company in America will need a repair invoice from the Company that did the repair, and they have refused to give it to me. This may affect my ability to claim this money back. This is not a recent issue, as a report from Guardian Money five years ago highlighted Green Motion as “ the car hire firm with a trail of angry customers, furious at bills presented to them when they return a car for hundreds – even thousands – of pounds for the damage they say is barely visible or that was there already”. In the same report, a customer states, “She presented her photographic evidence that the damage was there at pick-up to staff, who admitted it had been previously damaged. But Green Motion then claimed she had also damaged the same area on the car – and therefore, the charge stands,” which is exactly what happened to us. This was 5 years ago, and the complaints have persisted. Since I posted the review on Google, another customer reached out to me to share a similar experience two weeks later with the same model of car, same wheel, and same cost. There is a substantial amount of evidence from Green Motion customers to justify an investigation, as the consumer is left without any protection in such cases. They have charged my credit card and have told me that is within my contract and there is nothing I can do about it. I priced the wheel at two different independent sources, and both said 300 pounds for a new wheel. They are charging up to GBP1300 for one wheel.
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Posted 11 months ago
Service staff was ok and pleasant. However, the location of the car rental is very questionable and looks very shady at the back of a building. Car was not ready when we got there and it took a while before they were ready with one. And that too, the car that was given to us was just dropped off by another customer, leaving us with an empty gas tank and no interior cleaning of the car. They did hosed down the car right before our eyes- again very questionable experience.
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Posted 11 months ago
Wish I give no stars I Appalling service i’m going on afterscammed into paying for damage we did not cause. I’m convinced they have a scam going Of its raining they keep you waiting anything up to 2 hrs in yhe rain to collect car. They point out minor damage but on return they find ancilliary damage invisible to the eye which the customer is then charged for. Disgraceful
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Posted 11 months ago
Used Green Motion twice and both times have been awful. Staff unhelpful and both times they have found a chip in the windscreen (both times they say it is 3mm) we have proof that it was there when we took the car and yet somehow it is our fault and have been told to go elsewhere to complain and yet still kept deposit. We rented a 7 seater for 7 days, it was supposed to be automatic, the company couldn’t provide this because they didn’t have anything else in stock other than manual and yet wouldn’t take the extra money off that we had paid for an automatic. All in all it cost us 1k for the 7 days. If you read reviews on green motion, people are calling it a scam, the prices are always cheaper when you get it but you end up paying more in the long run! Don’t bother with them, more hassle than it’s worth.
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Posted 11 months ago
1 Green motion Glasgow , rented fist 500 with 2 dangerous back tyres on 2023 car one of the tyres was bubbled the other had a cut and blew out on return . I was told to purchase one and Keep the receipt for a refund . I gave them the receipt and was told I would not get a refund . Then they lost the receipt . 2 I did not receive back my deposit . 3 I called police who did not attend , they called police to say i made them feel fearful because of my attitude for asking for my receipt back for the tyre i bought . I damaged the tyre seeing that i was not going to be paid for it .worse company ever . They kept harassing for my pin number calling me 3 times after i told them i’m arranging a funeral after a death in the family . they didn’t care the kept calling 4 times within 3 minutes like crack heads . They told police I called her a whore which was not true I told her to f off and wait till i come with your car at 10.00am .
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Posted 1 year ago
Appalling service.. Avoid. I hired a van for 2 days to move stuff to a new flat. It wasn't fully charged so decided to top it up before hitting motorway. None of the points seemed to work although cars either side of me had no problem. I called the office to let them know and was basically told it was charging yesterday, implying I was at fault. I decided to hit the road and try other charge points along the way... All the while the van is losing charge rapidly. After attempting 3 different stations the problem was clearly with vehicle or adaptor cable. I called the office again to express my frustration that I was now stuck by a motorway service station 19miles from my destination with 9% battery, plus I was now 3 hrs behind on my schedule as a result. They told me to call emergency number on contract, but offered no further help. The mechanic arrived 40mins later and after attempting to try charge himself for further 40mins said there was indeed a fault and van would have to be recovered/towed. I would have to remove my belongings from van and find my way to destination.. Which was a can at cost of £50. The following day I had to call the office several times to enquire what was happening. No approach had been made on Green Motion part to apologise, see if I was OK, provide a substitute or alternative vehicle, or refund... Given that I'd paid for 2 days and hadn't even managed 1 day before van broke down. I was also left to my devices stranded at a motorway services forecourt. I was meant to pick up flat keys at 5.30pm.. Due to Green Motion lack of care, I arrived at 10.30pm, plus extra £50. Each time I phoned I was told they were just the front desk handing over the keys to customers... I needed to email customer services If I had a complaint!! Why am I having to chase them when the vehicle I paid for has a) broken down b) no longer with me? Where was the customer care and service. This company do not care, are basically a scamming device interested only in preying on any unfortunate incident, taking your money and washing their hands of you. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR CUSTOM! They ignore emails, calls, pass the buck, and will not enter any discussion of customer care.
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Posted 1 year ago
Careful - if they can, they will rinse you. I’d give no stars if I could… Hired a car for 6 days through CarJet and paid extra for the full insurance package. This was a great price at £130. After we landed in Newcastle I realised I’d forgotten my driving licence, which was not ideal. My wife was following two days later, and had my licence, so I called Green Motion direct and tried to find a solution. They were so helpful on the phone, really friendly and understanding, and they said not to worry, they could help us sort something out in the morning, switching the driver to someone else in our party, hopefully without any fees. I wasn’t too worried, as adding a driver was only £10 on the T&Cs. Worse case I thought, I could always collect the car on Monday. However, when I arrived at the office with my replacement driver, they told me I would need to pay £120 to change drivers (pretty much the full hire price), or £240 if I wanted to be fully insured (an insurance that cost me £30 through CarJet). Absolutely insane money and the opposite of the helpful chat they gave over the phone. Seems they just wanted to get me in the office to try and squeeze more money out of me. At this stage I had no choice but to cancel the booking, taking the £130 hire fee as a loss, rather than throw more money after a bad decision. Obviously this is fundamentally my fault for forgetting my driving licence, but this is a warning to anyone considering using this company that if they can catch you out in any way they will absolutely shaft you. No attempt whatsoever to offer any kind of reasonable customer service. They are not interested in helping you at all. I mean… how hard would it have been to let me pick the car up a couple of days later once my licence arrived? I’d have happily forfeit the two days hire for my mistake… No help whatsoever - just £130 for nothing. I will never use this company again. Be careful!
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Posted 1 year ago
On April 25th I purchased a car rental reservation through Hopper at 4:29pm for an elderly family member flying into Orlando airport the following day. I received notification at 10pm that the airline carrier was experiencing a delay. Thusly, I called to notify Hopper of the change. Hopper (we) issued a call to Green Motion at 10:17pm to avoid any issues with the purchased reservation. We were not to be considered a no-show because of the fact that I informed Hopper and placed a call the night before to inform green motion of the delayed flight for my family member. Which was, in fact, the same evening and within hours of purchased reservation. Therefore, with this notification, Green Motion was supposed to reserve the car in accordance with the policies regarding prior notification for delays made public to consumers. In the event that Green Motion was unable to reserve the car they should have issued a refund. Knowingly renting a purchased/reserved vehicle to another customer is bad business practice. This is actionable from a consumer perspective. Hoppers calls are recorded for quality assurance. The calls to Hopper and from Hopper are retrievable. This provides evidence to the fact that I had exhausted all facets to ensure that I upheld my responsibilities as a consumer and advised of changes that occurred through no fault of my own well in advance to the pick up time scheduled for the car rental. This is predatory behavior should be made public to unsuspecting consumers. No one should have to endure this type of business practice which is theft. BUYER BEWARE. N. Elie
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Posted 1 year ago
Green Motion is rated 2.5 based on 1,056 reviews