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I recognize that. Still I am disappointed. I don't like being deceived in such a way (possibly I simply don't like being deceived).
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It might be worth contacting Manchester Trading Standards[^]. If yours is the only complaint, they might not be able to do much, but they'll have Europcar on their radar.
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Oh, thank you for the suggestion.
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I'm frankly amazed that so few people seem to have experienced this kind of additional selling as it's done by everybody and his dog in the UK these days. I bought a pillow the other day and was subjected to advice on what a fine selection of Haribo sweets I should really be adding to my purchase before leaving the shop - whether it was supposed to help me sleep or raise me to a state of euphoria which would result in my buying a whole new set of pillows by association I have yet to work out!
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Probably you are right. However being deceived is by far more annoying for me than simply being target of an additional selling.
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Member 9082365 wrote: I'm frankly amazed that so few people seem to have experienced this kind of additional selling as it's done by everybody and his dog in the UK these days
yeah, Mr. Balotelli sounded exactly like the weasels that run car rental desks here in the USA. Here though, there's a good chance that if you managed to heroically resist all the upsell attempts you'd discover that they were all out of small cheap cars, and would have to give you the expensive one they were trying to upsell you to for the cheap car price. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: ou'd discover that they were all out of small cheap cars, and would have to give you the expensive one they were trying to upsell you to for the cheap car price
I suspect Mr. Balotelly acted in a very similar scenario.
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Awesome - simply awesome! 
/ravi
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I like it!
Ravi, we should just get the band back together.
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If you say no, Elwood and I will come here for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of the week.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Interesting affect the frame rate has on the string vibration. Nice standing waves.
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Great one
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Is that guitar in standard tuning ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Er ... how could you possibly know? The three harmonics sounded right for a standard tuning but that doesn't mean a lot.
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I hate how they're implemented in WinForms, I hate how their implemented in HTML. The whole issue of parsing out which radio button was selected and, on the flip side, selecting the correct radio button given "something", is such a PITA. And the "something" of course never matches what is typically persisted -- a FK ID. No, instead of having a sane list for radio buttons where you can correlate ID's from a lookup table to the data sources's FK's, no, you have to set the damn checked state. Grrr.
Well, regardless, I now have a decent wrapper (probably not the best, but WTF, it works) in Javascript for dealing with this nightmare, just like I implemented in WinForms ages ago.
Marc
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Yes, Knockout (and I suspect other's of that ilk) do take some of the pain out of radio buttons. 
Marc
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Am I the only one who finds JavaScript a ugly and complicated mess? Even with Knockout you still get endless hard to read spaghetti bowls.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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No, you are not the only one!
Even I just escaped from 2 years of Web development!  
That said TypeScript was quite nice!
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I really dislike functional languages ever sice I was tortured with Lisp in some course while studying. Boxing everything in parantheses a thousand layers deep is not exactly my idea of readable code. How many parantheses do I need to close now? But granted, thats matter of personal preferences.
I also dislike interpreters. They only notice an error when they hit the line at runtime. That, together with JavaScript's awful 'keep going without complaining until you have no other choice' philosophy makes testing and quality assurance a hell. A single typo can make the entire following code unparsable and you must do a complete test even after small changes.
And what do you see when debugging? Variables that contain functions which contain other variables, which may contain even more functions... IF (a very big if!) the crappy debugger got its context right and allows you to hit breakpoints and examine anything at all.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Wow! This got off-topic in a hurry.
To move back, yes coding radio buttons is a pain, but it is the right mechanism for certain kinds of selections. There may be tools out there to ease the pain, but I haven't found them yet.
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