At the start I was a bit nervous. I was booking a car alone in Tel Aviv in Israel around late June and I kept counting every dollar in my head. Flights were not cheap. Hotels were not cheap. I kept asking myself how long my credit card limit could last. Then I saw something called One-Dollar Freeze on QEEQ and my first thought was this. Is this real. It said I could pay only 1 dollar first and lock the car. The rest of the money would be taken before the trip started. It also said no interest. In my head I said to myself that this means I do not need to feel so much pressure on my credit card for now. That night I sat in front of my computer and kept asking myself one question after another. Should I wait a bit more. Will the price change. But what if I wait and there is no car left. At the end I told myself that I can just freeze it first. It is only 1 dollar. I picked a Dacia Sandero from Budget. Automatic. Four doors and five seats. It felt right for me as one person with some bags and maybe one or two friends joining later. The booking showed pick up around June twenty first at 8 pm and return around July eleventh at 8 pm. I counted the days in my head and felt the timing was okay. Still the most important thing for me was not the car itself. It was the feeling that this payment plan gave me. It felt like I could fix my plan first and think about full payment later. When I clicked confirm I was thinking of the old style full charge at once. If it was like that my bill would blow up right away. Now I only paid 1 dollar first and my stress dropped a lot. I also thought that if something changed in my trip I would not have too much money locked from day one. After I booked I got the email and I felt like a big stone was taken off my heart. A few days later I was on a bus and I suddenly thought about the rest of the payment. I asked myself when they would charge it. I worried for a second that they might charge at a strange time. I opened my email again. I looked at the dates and then told myself that they would take it before the start and I did not need to over think it. When the trip got closer I asked myself again if I should double check or call the support team. Then I felt it was fine because their emails were clear enough. Closer to my pick up day I saw the rest of the charge show up on my credit card bill. The amount was the same as the booking. There was no extra interest and no strange fee. I smiled and thought that it was good I trusted One-Dollar Freeze. If not my card limit might be close to the top already. That was when I really felt how friendly this way is for someone like me coming from another country. When flight and hotel and many small costs all come at the same time it helps a lot when one big cost can move a bit later. The pressure is very different. When I arrived at Tel Aviv airport near 8 pm and went to the Budget counter the staff there just checked my details. I was standing there and I started to compare with my old trips. Before I would worry about my bill for weeks. This time I was thinking more about my route and my map. I was not stuck on questions like when the bill will come or how much interest I will pay. Later a friend asked me how I dared to book a car by paying only 1 dollar at first. I laughed and told him the whole story. I said that I was not sure at the start either. But this way suited me so well. It broke my stress into smaller parts. For someone who still feels a bit like a student inside this kind of plan made me brave enough to lock in my trip early.
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