As many of us on here do, I book my rental car through Costco Travel and monitor the price up until our trip to get the best rate. When there's a lower price available I'll book it, go to my bookings, and cancel the older/more expensive reservation.
Our December trip is quickly approaching (
) and thankfully our rate has started to come down. I keep spreadsheet with all of our confirmation numbers, dates, rental company, price, etc., and always update it after I book a new rate and cancel the older reservation. A few days ago I noticed the booking I was cancelling was showing as a higher price than when I initially booked it. Thought it was strange but I didn't look into it, assumed it was a weird glitch.
Cut to today.. another price drop on a different reservation than the previous one, which meant booking the new and cancelling the old. Well, what would you know, this reservation I was cancelling was ALSO more than it was when I booked it! So I went through all six of my existing upcoming reservations and lo and behold.. they're all more than they were when I booked them. Before anyone asks if its possible if I made a mistake on my spreadsheet, I had the same thought. So I took the Costco confirmation numbers, searched my email inbox to find the original email confirmation and confirmed the original price was indeed less than what's showing as current total on all reservations.
The original reservations were booked between February and August of this year and were reservations with Budget, Avis and Alamo. Then I noticed every reservation was increased by the same amount.. $18.64. With the increase happening across different rental companies parent companies I can only assume Costco made a change. No idea why, maybe to increase their margins? I don't know but I think it's very weird they made changes to existing reservations without any communication or notification.
Why am I sharing this over a less than $20 increase? Not sure to be honest but wanted to share because I thought I was going crazy!
Maybe someone else will notice this happened to them 
Our December trip is quickly approaching (
) and thankfully our rate has started to come down. I keep spreadsheet with all of our confirmation numbers, dates, rental company, price, etc., and always update it after I book a new rate and cancel the older reservation. A few days ago I noticed the booking I was cancelling was showing as a higher price than when I initially booked it. Thought it was strange but I didn't look into it, assumed it was a weird glitch.Cut to today.. another price drop on a different reservation than the previous one, which meant booking the new and cancelling the old. Well, what would you know, this reservation I was cancelling was ALSO more than it was when I booked it! So I went through all six of my existing upcoming reservations and lo and behold.. they're all more than they were when I booked them. Before anyone asks if its possible if I made a mistake on my spreadsheet, I had the same thought. So I took the Costco confirmation numbers, searched my email inbox to find the original email confirmation and confirmed the original price was indeed less than what's showing as current total on all reservations.
The original reservations were booked between February and August of this year and were reservations with Budget, Avis and Alamo. Then I noticed every reservation was increased by the same amount.. $18.64. With the increase happening across different rental companies parent companies I can only assume Costco made a change. No idea why, maybe to increase their margins? I don't know but I think it's very weird they made changes to existing reservations without any communication or notification.
Why am I sharing this over a less than $20 increase? Not sure to be honest but wanted to share because I thought I was going crazy!
Maybe someone else will notice this happened to them 
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