Another Budget rental car issue
I flew into Chicago on 7/2 and rented a car with Budget. We barely drove the car, just from the airport to the hotel, back to the airport and back to the hotel (ask me why this trip was the trip from absolute HELL), and then to a friends and back to the hotel, and then back to the airport. I experienced no issues, other than the fact that I'd paid for them to drive me to the gate and didn't receive instructions on how that worked). So when we got the airport, we unloaded, they had us reload into the same car, dropped us to the gate, and that was the end of that.
Today, a month and a half later, I'm receiving a bill for over 2k in damages. The odometer reading from the service people in just 3 miles after what I returned it at but they also apparently took this to the shop this on 7/14, 9 days after I dropped off the car. In the pictures there's a giant scratch and a ding on the car that they're charging me for. I know nothing happened to the car under my watch, but I didn't take pictures, given the whole driving-us-to-the-gate thing. There are no timestamped photographs on either end, just pictures taken on the 14th blaming me for it.
I recognize that, because of the lack of pictures, that I'm SOL, so I'm trying to pay. Their online system isn't working, and they're telling me now to give them my credit card information over the phone. I don't trust these people farther than I can throw them, so I'm unwilling to do that. This whole thing just feels like a complete and utter scam.