EasyCar vs Holiday Autos

**Kandevil** · 05-09-03

"easyCar.com is the low cost online car rental company owned by Stelios, founder of easyJet. We have an expanding fleet operating in the UK, Spain, France and Holland. We are offering affiliates the opportunity to earn £3.75 for every referral that results in a confirmed booking"

"Holiday autos is the world’s largest online car rental broker with fully inclusive car rental in over 4000 locations UK and worldwide. Affiliates joining the holiday autos scheme will be rewarded with £7.50 per sale with the added bonus of a 30 day cookie period. Up to £10 per car rental booking is available for affiliates with recorded traffic of more than 100 bookings per month."

I'm currently running easycar and considering switching to Holiday Auto's because of the better rates. There's no easycar bonus scheme and even if i was to just less than halve my conversion rate I'd still be doing better with Holiday Auto's does anybody have any experience with Holiday Auto's yet?

**Chris B** · 05-09-03

They are new to TD so no sales here yet.

**Kandevil** · 03-10-03

Anyone with any experience of Holiday Auto's now they have been running for a while on TD?

**Ecco** · 03-10-03

No direct experience with Holiday Autos but they should convert higher as they're on the airports and easycar aren't, and airport bookings are a huge part of this market.

**Flightmapping** · 12-10-03

Why switch, when you could just give one more prominence. IMHO, the two companies are pitching at a very different market. Easycar seems to be about aiming at people living in city centres, who don't own a car, but could benefit from using one for a few days. They do also have some locations quite near airports - I know their Glasgow site is within "walking" distance of the airport, I think the Edinburgh one is by the long term off-airport parking.

Holiday Autos, AFAIK, are a broker, so they have a good range of pick up locations, including just about every airport people are likely to fly to. Avoid Europcar - very stingy pay out - compare that with cost of car rental on Espotting!

Would be nice to see other companies using affiliation for direct booking. Also check out UKA, and Affil Win, there are a couple of car firms on there

James

**Azam.net** · 13-10-03

The new 'Record Rent a Car' might be good for you. At least you'll get 2p per visitor you send to them. In my experience, 99% don't buy, so the small CPC on top of lead fee makes big difference.

You have to work it out, though, cos commission for 'Record Rent a Car' is only £1.75.