Skurt
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Skurt - Tap a button, have a rental car delivered.

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Love this idea. Been finding myself in need of something like this lately
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So did we, but we couldn't find it, so we built it for all of us.
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.
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thank you Everette!
I met up with 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?
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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.
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!
Maker
- Thanks for the shout! Where would you like to see us next :) ?
Love the concept! I saw this kind of service in India where rental companies in India deliver cars to your location.
Maker
Thanks! India's a great market. We'll make our way there.
When will you guys be available in SF?
Maker
- we plan to launch in SF Jan 2016 :)
Woop! I'm excited! Finally... no more lines 😁
Maker
or gas mark-up fees, or shuttles, or insurance scare tactics... :)
Maker
we're currently LA only, NYC is definitely on our road map for expansion next year!
I have been wanting to see something like this for a long time. I am happy to finally see that it exist in the world :-)
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Compared to your past rental experiences, I'd really like to hear the one thing we've solved that you're most excited about?
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.
Maker
no one should ever have to sit on a shuttle bus after a long flight! We're excited to show you how much better the Skurt experience is!
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?
Maker
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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