Cancelled Rentals Excluded From Reviews, Hiding Worst Outcomes
A customer whose reservation was relocated to a distant branch arrived to find no truck available and had to rent elsewhere. The more consequential discovery was that because the rental was cancelled, the review system would not accept any feedback about the experience. Every reservation the company fails to fulfil is therefore structurally absent from its own ratings, biasing them toward the transactions that went through.
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