When I walked out of the airport in Miami, the warm air hit my face and I was pulling my suitcase toward the rental car area. I felt pretty relaxed inside because I kept thinking that when I booked the car, I only paid 1 dollar first. It made me feel I planned my budget in a smart way. I found QEEQ online and picked a Toyota Highlander in Miami. It is a seven seat car and looked perfect for my trip. But when I saw the total price, my first thought was that paying all of it at once would be a bit heavy on my credit card. Then I saw the option called One-Dollar Freeze. I stared at it for a while and in my head I kept thinking, is this really okay. Can I really lock the car with just 1 dollar. I hesitated a bit and did some small math in my mind about my spending for the next weeks. I also remembered that my credit card bill had not come out yet. If the full amount was charged at that time, it would feel pretty hard to handle. In the end I chose this plan and when I checked my card I only saw the 1 dollar charge. My mind relaxed right away because I did not use up a big part of my credit limit at once. In the next days I did not really worry about it. Sometimes I thought about the car and hoped it was still held for me. They did not send me crazy stuff or anything weird so I felt more calm. I also added one child safety seat because I have a kid with me. After I added that, I checked my card balance again out of habit. When I remembered that the main cost was not charged yet, I felt glad that I used this way to pay. Around one or two days before my trip, I suddenly thought that the rest of the money should be charged soon. I opened my credit card app and saw the new charge there. The amount was the same as the total price I saw when I booked. There were no strange extra fees. At that moment I really felt relieved. It was really no interest like they said and there was no surprise fee hiding there. Before that I was still a bit worried there would be some last minute charges. When I arrived in Miami, I went to the counter of Zezgo Rent a Car in the afternoon around April 9. I showed the staff my booking confirmation. The staff checked my booking very normally. That was the moment I truly felt that my 1 dollar really kept the Toyota Highlander for me. No one told me I still had to pay something to get the car. They only followed the usual steps to check my information and my driver license. In my head I thought I was really lucky that I did not pay everything at once or I would have been staring at my card bill for weeks. After I got the car, I sat in the driver seat and fixed the child seat in the back. I looked at the empty seats behind it and I suddenly remembered the moment when I clicked One-Dollar Freeze. If I did not have this choice, maybe I would have delayed my booking or picked a smaller and cheaper car. With this plan I could do it step by step. I locked the car with 1 dollar first and then the rest was charged automatically before the start. For someone like me who needs to control the credit card limit, this really made the pressure much lower. I did not need to remember a date to pay the rest. They would handle it before the trip and I just had to make sure my card had enough balance. During the next days when I drove in Miami, I sometimes thought about this. When I saw gas prices on the road, I started to count all my travel costs in my head. Then I felt happy again that I chose this payment way. Not getting hit by a big charge at once made my mood very different. I am the kind of person who keeps checking the credit card bill and if I had paid everything at once I would probably feel annoyed by that big number for weeks. On the day I returned the car around April 14 at noon, I parked the Highlander and the staff checked the car. Everything was smooth. I counted the cost of this rental in my head and then remembered that at the very beginning I only paid 1 dollar. In exchange I got a few weeks with almost no credit card stress. For a normal traveler like me this way of paying really fit me well.
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