I just booked a rental car online. With possible exception of Alamo, all of the online reservation systems for the major rental car companies suck. All of the systems more or less worked, but they were all slow, clunky, and had major usability issues.

Avis was the worst of the bunch. I typed their URL into my browser and got the following message: "Your session has timed out for security purposes. Please click on any link to restart." My session? I've never been to your site before. And click on any link? Well, the most prominent one is that stupid DoubleClick banner ad, would you like me to click on that one? Oops, I'm off somewhere else. Come on Avis, I just want to rent a car...I could care less about your stupid sessions.

This entry was published on February 26, 2002 at 01:03 pm.

kottke.org is a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0 edited by Jason Kottke since March 1998. You can read about me and kottke.org here. If you've got questions, concerns, or an interesting link for me, send them along. Here's the kottke.org RSS feed .

Advertise on kottke.org via The Deck.

Many posts on kottke.org have been "tagged" with keywords, which activity results in collections of related posts like sports, infoviz, or bestof.

swimming   olympics   movies   video   sports   trackandfield   photography   design   lists   free   books   tv   science   language   food

movies   photography   books   nyc   science   food   lists   design   business   sports   video   weblogs   music   bestof   art

photography   economics   lists   bestof   infoviz   food   nyc   firstworldproblems   cities   restaurants   video   timelapse   interviews   language   maps   fashion   nsfw   remix  

sunshine   prison   cities   barcade   marypoppins   lifeafterpeople   realestate   cars   fundraising   hosseinderakhshan   fridakahlo   sony   pentagram   movies   im