At the start I was asking myself a lot of questions. I was going from Singapore to Frankfurt alone and I needed a car. Did I really have to pay the full rental fee right away. Would my credit card feel too much pressure. I hesitated because the amount was not small. Then I saw the One-Dollar Freeze option on QEEQ and I stopped to read it carefully. I asked myself again. Is it true that I can book the car with just 1 US dollar first. What if something goes wrong with the later payment. I read the description a few times. It said I only need to pay 1 dollar now and the rest will be charged automatically before the rental starts and there is no interest. That point about no interest made me relax a bit. For someone like me who travels alone and is still careful with money the biggest fear is a big charge at once. I asked myself should I try this. My credit card limit was a bit tight at that time and if they took the full rental right away I would feel very stressed for the next few months. After thinking for a while I decided to use this plan. It felt like I was saving my place first. When the booking went through my phone only showed a small 1 dollar charge. I checked the details to be sure there were no other strange fees. Then I finally took a deep breath. I told myself it was good that the full amount was not taken yet. This way I could manage other costs in the coming months and I did not need to adjust my credit card limit in a rush. As the travel date got closer I sometimes thought about the car booking again. I asked myself another question. When it is near the pickup time will there be a sudden big charge when I am not ready. Will they overcharge me. Every time I remembered the note that the rest of the money would be charged before the rental and that there was no extra interest my worry became smaller. I started to watch my card statement to see when they would take the remaining amount. Around mid May when my trip was near I checked my statement again. I saw the charge come in shortly before my rental date. The number matched the order and there were no extra fees. That moment I told myself that this plan really let me pay just 1 dollar first and then pay the rest closer to the trip. My cash flow was not killed at the start. When I landed in Frankfurt on May 16 in the evening at around nine I was on the train to the city and I thought about the whole payment process again. I asked myself if this two step payment style was worth it. For me the answer was yes. In the weeks before the flight I still had to pay for flights hotels and some gear. If I had paid all the car money at the beginning I would be doing numbers in my head all the time. Now with only 1 dollar paid first it felt like the plan helped me hold on until just before the trip. At the Europcar counter when I was getting the Skoda Karoq I was not distracted by money things anymore. I could focus on the car and my route. I asked myself quietly. If there was no plan like this would I still be here doing all the math and worrying about my card limit. I think yes. I travel alone and I really hate the idea that my card might fail in front of other people. This time I could lock in the booking easily which gave me a kind of safety. During the days I was driving in Germany I still had one main question in my head. Is there any hidden interest. When I checked my statement and did not see any extra charge that question slowly faded away. I told myself that what they wrote was what they did. The timing of the charge was also fine for me and there was no sudden hit on my card. On May 30 in the late afternoon around six when I returned the car in Frankfurt I put my bag down and went through the whole experience in my mind. I asked myself what the biggest difference was compared to my past rentals. The answer was clear. I did not pay all the big amount at the start. I used One-Dollar Freeze and paid only 1 dollar to secure the booking then the rest was taken close to the rental date. As a solo traveler this made it easier for me to say yes to renting. I did not back off just because of a heavy first payment. Thinking back from the day I booked until I drove around Germany I found that I was less nervous about my credit card bill. I kept checking in my head. Did they take more money. Is there any interest fee. When I saw there was none I finally relaxed fully. For me the key point of this experience was not how cool the car was. The important thing was that I could breathe first on the money side and then start my trip with a clear mind. One-Dollar Freeze felt like a small button that helped me keep that breathing space.
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