The sitter and I have been communicating and have worked everything out.
FYI:
Regarding toll: I declined the $6+ payment, (Not refused. Our payment methods were incompatible.) What I wasn’t happy about was not the amount, only that she never told me.
Maybe it’s just me, but I personally feel that if she’s treating my car as a rental she should return it with a full tank. Just saying. That’s what happens when I assume.
The listing states that the pets are not to be left alone more than 6 hours. She was gone for 10. This particular day was when she drove the most miles.
To clarify, rental cars require that you return the vehicle with the same amount of gas as when you received it. If you pick up the car with a full tank, you return it with a full tank. However, if you pick the car up with a 1/4 tank of gas, you are responsible for returning it with a 1/4 tank.
Why would an incompatible payment need to be declined? If a payment was declined then the payer would naturally assume that the payee wasn’t interested in being paid but at least they tried and can’t be faulted.
It’s $6.. freaking bucks, not even worth mentioning in the first place. How many thousands of dollars does a host save on pet watching services with a free sitter? What’s next, the sitter should offer to pay for the air that was breathed and the water drank during the sit? It boggles the mind.
Offering use of a vehicle to a person who is caring for your pets during a sit is not “renting them a car”, not even close. And when a car is rented, the renter is NOT required to return it with more gas then it had when they picked it up and yet the host feels she was abused and is angry.
We told them that the hire car’s cruise control was set under the legal limit & could they show us proof of calibration as all the fines were in the same spot going in & out of the city. They couldn’t so away went the pesky fines #tadah