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8bitaficionado t1_j7plylu wrote

I had zip car for a number of years as it was my way to get to military duty and I got rid of it for the following reasons

  • At the time, the price for a weekend was almost $400 this was comparable to a month of parking. Now it's just slightly less as parking prices went up.
  • The cars were filthy. Food, animal hair. All sorts of nasty things
  • You couldn't get a car in the summer. Things were just booked for months.

After dealing with Zip Car I learned that any shared resource from subways, parks and cars are treated awfully. If any one thing ruins this city it is the people who live here and don't care and treat things badly. I gave up bought a cheap city car and pay for parking and it's cleaner and cheaper for me then ZIP.

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oreosfly t1_j7puxc1 wrote

Used zipcar a lot in school. They were filthy as shit, mechanically deficient (oh this car has a donut on and you need to drive it 100 miles on the highway? Guess you’re SOL) and you were way too dependent on other people bringing the car back in time. I would book it to get groceries and if the person before you decided to return half an hour late, you’re SOL again.

No thanks.

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migrate1 t1_j7pnjzl wrote

The absolute state of the zipcars...

Ick

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ThisIsMyFifthAccount t1_j7s6nma wrote

Zipcar was great in like 2012 or 14 or sometime then I dunno it’s a blur, but by 2018 I noped out for the same reasons - too expensive, unavailable, and grotesque

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