When I booked the car, I asked myself if it was really only one dollar first. I saw this One-Dollar Freeze on QEEQ and I did not fully trust it at the start, but it looked very nice for my budget. I planned a trip to Vienna at the end of May and I wanted a car in the size of a Peugeot 2008 because we had a lot of luggage and family with us. My travel budget was not very big and I did not want my credit card to be too full from the beginning. When I saw that the page said I only needed to pay 1 dollar first, I stared at that number for a few seconds. I checked again that there was no extra fee. Then I pressed confirm. The bank message came and it really showed just 1 dollar. I felt a lot more relaxed and I felt like I saved myself some pressure. In the next days I did not stress much because I knew the rest of the money would be charged before the rental started. I just needed to keep enough limit on my card. In the week before the trip I opened my booking again. All the details were still there and nothing changed with the car group or the rental company. I went back to packing and planning. Around one or two days before my flight to Vienna I got another bank message. This time it showed the remaining rental amount. I checked the number and it was the same as in my booking. There was no extra charge and no strange cost. At that moment I felt very calm because I did not need to worry about paying more money later at the counter. When I arrived at Vienna and went to the rental counter around the time we planned, I felt quite light. The big part of the money was already taken a short time before, so I just had to show my documents and my card. The whole process felt smoother for me than paying the full amount in one shot long before the trip. It felt like I could lock the car with a small payment and then deal with the big payment closer to the trip. For me the best part of this One-Dollar Freeze was that there was no interest. This is very important to me. I usually do not like payment plans because I am afraid of hidden fees. This time I checked my card statements many times and the total stayed the same. It was just split into two charges. I could also plan my other trip costs better in the weeks before, like hotels and flights, because the rental did not block a lot of money too early. When I think about the whole thing, it was actually very simple. I paid 1 dollar to make the booking, the rest was charged near the pick up date, and then I went to Austria and picked up the car as planned. As an overseas visitor this type of payment gave me a nice buffer and made me feel safer. I did not spend those days before the rental worrying about a heavy credit card bill.
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