Overseas Adventure Travel canceled her trip. Should she lose $4,534 for her ticket?
When Celia Dunlap’s tour operator shortened her Southeast Asia adventure, she lost $4,534 that she had paid for her airline ticket—and now she wants it back.
A weekly feature in which I ask readers if I should mediate a case.
When Celia Dunlap’s tour operator shortened her Southeast Asia adventure, she lost $4,534 that she had paid for her airline ticket—and now she wants it back.
Somewhere in Antwerp, Belgium, Patricia Fiedler’s Viator day tour came to a screeching halt. It wasn’t when she and her sister were ten minutes late returning to their bus and got left behind. No, the tour was an “unmitigated disaster” long before then, she says.
Marcia Krantz wants her money back for her Celebrity cruise. She sailed to the Galapagos last year but didn’t enjoy it. And then her replacement cruise to Europe also tanked.
Squirrels destroyed Donald Davidson’s rental car – and now Avis wants him to pay $6,758 for the damage! Should we advocate for him?
Alicia Flor got a great deal on a new Subaru, but apparently it didn’t include a second key. That’ll be extra, according to her dealership, which claims it lost too much money on the transaction to include a spare fob.
Prayag Misra regrets signing a lease for a 2017 Honda Civic, and I feel for him. After all, he’d responded to an ad for a $1,999 downpayment and a $169 monthly lease payment, but ended up paying a lot more.
Today I have a Toyota switched lease case that just might be unsolvable. I’ll let you tell me if you think it is — or isn’t.
That’s right, it’s time for another Should I Take The Case?, a feature that gives you the chance to tell me what to do. (Haven’t you always wanted to do that?) This one shows the importance of reading the contract on your car lease very carefully
Brian Seligman has a peculiar problem: his 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe locks itself spontaneously.
“Just last Friday, the car locked itself with my key inside,” he says. “It’s a good thing my friend had the tools to get into the vehicle.”
Seligman has visited two Hyundai dealerships. “They found nothing,” he says.
Tammy Davies wants to know: “Can Southwest Airlines extend my ticket credit?” After all, she’s recovering from cancer.
If Jody Clark’s recent United Airlines flight from Houston to Vancouver had been a scene in a movie, it probably would be the one where the protagonist is finally pushed to the brink of a nervous breakdown. She says she was stuck next to two screaming toddlers in first class no less, and she wants a refund.