GoCar Avis 

Horrible experience. Absolutely rude and careless staff, after having used the app with my driving license several times for long trips, I found out suddenly one weekend that my license wasn’t active in my profile. I called customer support, I had to wait for 20 minutes until the ill-mannered worker at the line only told me without further explanation I had to upload the pictures again and wait until Monday. I of course complaint and they eventually blocked my account arbitrary… here I paste my e-mail to them as I was infuriated:

“I have been member of go car for near 2 years, I have done two gofar trips already with no problem, but as of today my driving license appeared as not validated. I have called to your customer support service. The first woman who responded, me having being on hold for 20 minutes, was absolutely unhelpful just telling me to upload new pictures and wait another 24 hours without further explanation… when I have used go car twice with this license already!!! I manifested my discontent with the service, and she very arrogantly told me if I wanted to delete the account. I said that if I‘m treated like this I would do it eventually, but not now, of course. I still hope to be able to use your service as the other times. Well, your worker, very arbitrary, decided to block my account. I called again and I was attended swifly and nicely by another agent. He has been all helpful and nice, and has asked me to send this request to the help desk with the pictures of my driving license again. I‘ve lost all hope to be able to use your service this weekend, but at least I want to recover my account according to my user rights violated by a very unprofessional worker of yours, the first lady (not in capital letters). I still think that your service and customer support should be more flexible and definitely with people like the second agent, not the first. It‘s a bit incomprehensible that I‘m not validated as of yet after having made about 200 km with go car already, but given the situation now, I‘m just content with having my account active. For this weekend I‘ll find another solution. Thank you very much.”.

Their reply:

“Lauryn K (GoCar)
May 25, 2024, 10:20 GMT+1

Hi there,

Thank you for your email.

As discussed, your account was missing the selfie image and needed this to be revalidated.

Unfortunately as you were rude to the agent dealing with this, your account has been blocked for the foreseeable.

We hold the right to do this if you are rude to our staff.

Kind regards,
Lauryn”

My last e-mail:

“Hi,

Well, it seems pretty much you are the first woman I was talking to. Then I will fulfill a formal complaint because this behaviour and treatment to customers is absolutely abnormal. I work in sales in contact with customers through the phone every day. If I behaved like this, with such indolence and arrogance, I wouldn't get a single cent of revenue and I would get fired, as simple as that. I find it ludicrous. That's not helping the company you work for at all, Mrs. Lauryn K.

Regards”.

DON’T USE GO CAR!!!!

P.S. The other app from a Japanese company to rent cars instantaneously, fixed my driving license validation the same day I opened my profile, on a weekend, and I actually did the trip I wanted. 1 million times better than miserable GoCar.

Rented a van to carry large objects, collected it at 9.30, drove approx. 1 hour away to collect the items, got there and the back doors were faulty and would not open. An absolute joke of a service as the van was useless to me. A waste of time and money as they still charged me the full amount for supplying me with a van that was not fit for purpose, even though I reported it and sent them video evidence of the doors refusing to open. They obviously don't do any health checks on the vehicles in their fleet. I had the same experience before when the drivers door was faulty and wouldn't open and I was left on hold for ages and was 30 mins late while they tried to sort it out. Then were constantly messaging me to see if I was going to be late returning the van, even though they were the problem with the late start in the first place.

Turned up to get the car and it was not returned. Was told it was in the shop for maintenance and that i should go find another car. Terrible customer service. No one notified me that the car would be available until 5 minutes before. Rude customer service from Luwanda

When contacting the company with an emergency situation they were dismissive, rude, didn't listen. They had an opportunity to resolve the situation as they used to buy instead maximised the impact on me and the next customer. There is no way to log a complaint seemingly.

I have been using GoCar since 2018. They started off great and then things went downhill!
Poor hygiene, dirty cars, customers smoking in the car and GoCar doing nothing about it!
I guess it’s all about the money for them!
You complain and they block you from using their services!
Absolute Joke of a company - zero star from me!!!

Very annoying. Said they'd validate my licence in 12-24 hours. They didn't. Turns out it's 12-24 business hours ... and even this excludes weekends - which they don't say anywhere. I'd plans to hire a van & move furniture which I then had to ditch. Judging from all the 1 star reviews they don't give a damn about their customers and don't read or take account of these reviews....hard to understand tha this is how they hope to do business and get/keep customers!!

They charge you after using it, without any kind of proof. "-30e for a fine", where is the letter of the council? No customer service to provide any clue or help...

Poor hygiene and broken car. Fuel pump broken, promised 1 hour at last we waited in car for 3 and half hour without any apologize from them. Will not rent anymore and not recommend. Poor service and vehicle.

This company is an absolute dump.
I book trip and now can't log in to my app!!!
THERE IS NO CONTACT POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOST MONEY( BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO PAY IN ADVANCE) AND MY CLIENT IS ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO BECAUSE THIS COMPANY OPERATES THROUGH THE INTERNET-A BOT TELLS YOU TO CHOOSE OTHER QUESTIONS.
NOT RECOMMENDED AND DISCOURAGED!!!

In general, I must say it's the best short-term car rental company. I used Gocar at least 40 times so far if not more and sometimes there were some problems but always found a solution and I never got robbed by the company too which is fair.

Terrible customer service. Two months in and my driving licence not validated yet even after contacting them

Terrible experience every time I've tried to use it. One time the car's battery was dead and it took over an hour to get in touch with someone, and then I couldn't get the car to lock and it took another 2 hours to resolve that. Next time I tried to use it the car would not unlock. Then my driving license randomly went back to 'pending verification' - where it has stayed for several months despite me contacting support. I just get a standard reply - 'it takes 24-72 hours to validate'. Very unprofessional.

Never have automatic gearbox
Car Dundalk Co Louth

The worst service! the customer service dont know which documents they need as proof for IDP.

Terrible customer service they are rude and blunt and completely unhelpful. First of all the van I rented wouldn't start because of a problem with data fob inside glove box, it took me 25 mins to get through to customer service who decided to rebook the van but using my own funds on my bank account, not once, not twice but three times.
And at the end of the journey they charged me extra 5€ claiming I driver over 60klm in distance which I did not. So instead of it costing me €30 they took €95, It took me 4 phone calls and number of emails to eventually get the other €65 I was overcharged returned but it has been 12 days since then and only 35€ was refunded and a member of there staff has blocked my account witch is fine because I won't be giving them my money again.

In October 2022, I booked a car at Fitzwilliam Street West which started at half two in the afternoon. I used my phone to unlock the car but it wouldn't unlock. My father decided to cancel it by ringing. My father thought it was very frustrating and I thought it was extremely disappointing. It was just a terrible waste of time. I'd say GoCar is probably the worst carsharing company in Ireland. I am NEVER booking any cars/vans from GoCar again ever! I am NEVER reinstalling the Go Car app on my phone or my future phones again either.

If you're reading this, avoid the app.

Please note this experience wasn't happened on Friday the 10th May 2024. It was actually happened on Sunday the 23rd October 2022.

My experience was hassle free, car was clean and ran well. I was able to get done what I needed to do. So overall for me I would definitely use Gocar again.

We hired a car for the first time for two days and it was 200% perfect ! The whole process of being accepted took not even 2 hours with my Irish Driving License. I was very impressed by the whole technical process to open and close the car...very quick. The car was in a perfect and clean state...nothing wrong. During our journey we saw 5 other GoCars driving on the Motorway. We will book again soon !

Didn't show up at the pick up point, more or less told us to F off when we phoned the 3rd time.
Rude lazy, useless.
I walked in the airport door and had a car from Avis in 5 mins.
I emailed them later recommending a name change to, "NoCar"

Well first of all, I hired a van from.9am Friday 6th April, it didn't arrive at the pick up point until 12 noon, ( I was left waiting for 3 hours in horrible weather ) I contacted customer service service ( which is nearly impossible) and a very nice girl apologised for the delay and refunded, € 25 to my account then a while later I noticed that they had taken € 4.70 from.my account for using the M50 toll bridge, when I wasn't anywhere within miles fo it, thenI contacted customer service again to query this and was told that I would have to send them an email about it, ( I'm talking to a customer service agent on the phone and she tells to to send them an email, the mind boggles ) then when I return the van and got my final receipt I noticed that not only was I charged €4.70 for using the M50 toll bridge which I never did I was also charged €8.00 for 38km's of diesel, ( I travelled 88km of which the first 50km is free,) plus the van was filthy both inside and outside , the windscreen was so filthy on the inside that I had to pull into Halfords and purchase a packet of windscreen wipes to clean the filth off it.
I don't normally complain about things on the Internet but this was just unbelievable
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