Awesome team, awesome app. Only complaint is that they are currently only in LA. I think people getting spoiled in LA and then going back to the old school way of car rental will only create more demand in new cities. Congrats on the PH launch guys.
I met up with @harryhur5t a few months back and I have to say I'm very impressed by Skurt's model. Rental car lots/offices are the worst experiences especially after a long flight. I can't wait to see where they take it next.
I assume that the two biggest rental car customers are corporate frequent fliers and consumers with recent car accidents or mechanical problems. How do you plan to capture those larger portions of the market when the top dogs (Hertz, Avis, etc) have partnerships with corporations and insurance companies?
@hellobrent great question Brent. As we expand and become more geographically ubiquitous, we plan to build solutions to help these companies save money and manage all of their reservations centrally. I think it will also become a 'give the people what they want' situation, where corporate employees and insurance customers simply won't accept anything less than the Skurt experience.
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@joshmangel Wow, really cool product. Only for LA as of now? Still, if I'm ever out there, I'll definitely give it a shot. Thanks for the promo code!
Congrats on the all the PH love! I just booked a rental for 10/12. Looking forward to trying it out. I've been using Silvercar for a while and when they started they used to pick you up at the airport, now they make you take a shuttle to the Pay2Park lots. A minor inconvenience but still inconvenient... Its one of the reasons I'm excited to try Skurt.
How does the insurance aspect of Skurt work - is it leveraging the independent car rental companies current plans? One of my biggest pain points with renting from a large company like Hertz is that I always feel like I am being tricked into paying for an insurance plan when I rent a car travelling, that I am probably covered for under my own insurance. Do you bring anymore transparency to the insurance aspect of renting a car?
@samyj13 most definitely! I'm really pleased you've brought this up. We too were sick of feeling like we were being ripped off. There's an inside joke in the rental car industry (so our attorney tells us), that the major rental car companies are some of the 'largest insurance companies that happen to rent cars'. This really stuck with us, it's just not how things should be, considering that most people are in fact covered under either their personal auto, or their credit cards. We plan to fix this through education of our customer, we don't 'sell' insurance, rather offer it at the lowest rate feasibly possible to our customers that truly need it.
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