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The car rental company asked me to pay $331 for two molded plastic booster seats sold at Walmart for $8.99 apiece.Here was my response.Dear Customer Service Representative,Up until last night, I can only vouch for the fact that Enterprise has lived up to its culture of customer service in every way.This was true for each of the three rentals I had in July (scans attached).A sinking feeling in my stomach accompanied my final check of the invoice from the first rental. My hope is that there was some sort of mistake, but I must confirm that after checking the original contract (which I duly signed), I see that I did indeed agree in advance to the charges on the final invoice. (Both the contract and the invoice are attached).The sick feeling in my stomach comes from what I would call a breach of trust. Specifically from discovering that our 6 member family (in my name) had unwittingly agreed to a rental fee of $64.95 per week for each of two plastic booster seats.Our total cost for the 17 day rental of these two car seats was $331,74. As you will see by clicking on this link, we could have driven to any number of local stores and purchased two brand new seats of higher quality and comfort for under $30 each.You will certainly also understand that as a family with 4 children between 6 and 11, we can ill afford such stupidity on my part. And yes, I agree that it was my stupidity, not that of Enterprise. I had to admit as much to my very angry and upset wife last night.However, the breach of trust is what disturbs me the most. When your local agent (Katy - I believe) saw our four children and cheerfully offered car seats, we assumed that these were included. She certainly did not verbally inform us of any extra cost. And certainly their very basic form did not lead me to believe that they would cost me nearly 35% of the cost of renting the car. And being trusting and tired after 18 hours of travel, and because of my past good experiences, I in fact did not carefully check the contract I signed.It is for this reason that I am hoping there was some sort of mistake. I find it hard to believe that the ethical company that I and my company have been dealing with for many years would behave in this manner. To put the charge for the booster seats in perspective - it would be the same as if your company had charged me $125,000.- for the 17 day rental of the car.Making my pain even worse is the fact that upon returning this vehicle, I had the integrity to show your agent a very faint scratch that may very well have escaped inspection had I not pointed it out. I was aware at the time that this honest behavior would cost me - and it did. But I only behaved as I would like to have others behave toward me and my family.I kindly ask you to reconsider the charges levied for the child booster seats in the interest of both retaining a loyal customer and in order to restrain my instincts as a 20 year public relations professional to ensure that consumers everywhere are aware of business conduct that may be considered as not entirely ethical.I thank you in advance for your kind consideration of a loyal customer.Raymond De VriesIn the end they refunded 50% of the cost.I hope this saves pain for a few others out there.Reward business people and rip off families. What a great strategy.Edited to include the name of the offending company in two instances where I had removed it. In fact, I missed the third reference, as a few observant readers noted in the comments below.

Things have changed in America since I left it 30 years ago.Dusk was falling on a warm and humid summer night in a mid-western town as I exited the restaurant. I was visiting from France.Dinner on my own had been surprisingly livened up by a great server, good food, an interesting crowd and four different craft beers.The air was sticky and smelled of exhaust fumes as I gazed out upon the two -mile strip of culinary and retail abundance that lined the strip.I felt good, I was looking forward to a nice stroll back to my bed. Having seen the four beers foreshadowed in a dream, I was inspired to leave the rental car back at the hotel.It was only a 15 minute walk.As I made my way along the strip from one monstrous parking lot to the next (there was no sidewalk), I saw blue lights reflected into the cars in front of me.I turned around to see what was the matter and discovered it was me.The police had gotten a report of someone walking through parking lots. I was the culprit.They inquired as to why I happened to be in a parking lot at this time of night.I told them I found it strange that there was no sidewalk, but that due to my previous engagement with four malted friends, the car was out of the question. I was just headed back to my hotel.After I showed them my room key card, they wished me a nice evening and said “sorry for the hassle, but nobody walks around here.”

I presume you are asking if we can expect more disappearing acts performed on critical journalists and influential citizens.The answer is yes, but this is not new.According to Reporters Without Borders, 55 journalists were killed in connection with their work in 2017. In 2018, the count is already 58. Hundreds more are imprisoned.Daphne Caruana Galizia accused the Maltese government of corruption. In October last year, her rental car (with her in it) was blown to smithereens.Ten years earlier, Ivan Safronov, a former military man turned defense correspondent displeased Russian army officials with stories of secret arms deals. One night, he bought a big bag of oranges, went up to his apartment and allegedly jumped out of the 5th-story window.These are just two examples.Take your pick: Recip Erdogan (Turkey), Viktor Orban (Hungary), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi (Egypt) or Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), all firmly believe that freedom of the press endangers their grip on power.Autocratic leaders all over the world agree.Different from the like-minded Donald Trump, these leaders are less restrained by legal protections for journalists. But they are grateful to the president for making persecution of the press so trendy and acceptable.Despite public and political outrage, I do not expect the Kashoggi killing to stop the cries of “fake news” or the support of violence against journalists.In May 2017, Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs was assaulted by Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate for Senator in Montana. Gianforte won the election. Later he pleaded guilty to the assault and was given a deferred sentence.On Friday night, praising Mr. Gianforte, Donald Trump, the American president declared “Any guy that can do a body slam, he’s my kind of — he’s my guy.” He continued, “(Gianforte) has fought — in more ways than one — for your state.”All over the globe, enemies of the free press are overjoyed at the leadership shown by America’s president.Expect more deaths and more imprisonments. Expect more tax investigations, legal challenges and paid public relations attacks aimed at factual media outlets.It is open season on journalists. It is open season on the truth.