Can I really book a car with just one dollar first. This was the question in my head when I planned my business trip to Croatia. I did not want my credit card bill to scare me again. I found this One-Dollar Freeze option on QEEQ and when I saw it on the page I kept thinking if it was really only one dollar now and the rest later. I worried there might be some trap. I still clicked book and in my head I was saying to myself that I hoped there was no hidden fee. When I think back to the moment I chose the car it was actually quite simple. I picked pickup in Pula and my plan was to arrive there in the afternoon around May 18. After my work I would return the car in Split around the afternoon of May 24. I chose a BMW 1 Series from SIXT with automatic gear and four doors. For a business traveler like me with a laptop bag and a suitcase the size felt right. So when I saw that I could lock this car with just one dollar first I felt my pressure drop a lot. During the booking I stared at the payment message on my phone many times. My card did not get charged a big amount. It really only took one dollar. I was a bit shocked and also did not fully believe it. I even took a screenshot and sent it to my coworker and asked him if he saw that it was really only one dollar. At that moment I felt that at least before the trip this cost would not be a heavy weight in my mind. In the next days I was still a little nervous. I kept thinking maybe some big pre authorization would suddenly show up. Every day when I checked my card I looked carefully and saw that there was still only that one dollar and no strange fee. Then I slowly relaxed. I thought that this flexible payment idea was actually very simple and not some fancy trick. When it got close to my travel date in the last one or two days I finally saw the rest of the rental fee get charged. The time was just a short time before the booking started. It was not too early and not too late. The amount was the same as the price I saw at the start. There was no extra weird charge. In that moment I felt very relaxed because I did not have to block a big amount on my credit card weeks before. For someone like me who travels for business all the time the biggest feeling is that the pressure on my credit card is much lower. In a normal month I might book flights and hotels many times. If the car rental also takes a big amount at once then my bill looks very scary. With this way where I pay only one dollar to hold the booking I can fix my plan first and then let them charge the rest a few days before the trip. I can control my cash flow better and my mind is not so tight. There is one more thing that I liked. During the whole time I did not really need to worry about anything. No one pushed me to pay early and my booking did not get canceled suddenly. Everything followed the plan I saw at the beginning. I only needed to remember that I would pick up the car in Pula around the evening of May 18 and return it in Split around the evening of May 24. The payment timing was all arranged for me. When I stood at the rental counter in Pula and saw that my booking was active and everything went as I expected I felt that paying just one dollar first was a smart move. For someone who is often on the road this feeling is quite rare.
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