Stacey
Dallas,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, February 08, 2011
That is all this is - crap. I get my renewal every year for my tags/registration. I check my stickers to make sure they are not expired. IF you do keep up with this information then you would have made sure your vehicle was in compliance with the law.
Not a rip off.
Striderq
Columbia,#3General Comment
Tue, February 08, 2011
Yes, you should get the renewal in the mail. However USPS does lose/misdeliver a lot of mail.
A couple of ways to help keep track of it. Put a note on your daily planner or other calendar the month before they expire, that way you know to expect the renewa. 2nd: Look at your plates when you walk past your car and you'll see when they're due. Then go into the office the month before they expire if you don't get your renewal form.
If your theory about generating revenue was correct then there would be more people in this situation. But come on 6 months expired and it didn't click and you didn't ever notice it??? Your guys are lucky the car wasn't impounded whe your husband got his ticket.
Robert
Irvine,#4Consumer Comment
Tue, February 08, 2011
It HAS to be the DMV that made the mistake. After all it is 100% impossible, for you to accidently misplace the registration renewal.
Perhaps they did do this intentionally because they know that you wouldn't realize it until they "got you". After all if you picked up on their little "scam", their efforts to "loose" your registration would have been for nothing. So I wonder where they hid the cameras to check you out and see if you would be a good "mark".
So here is a question for you. Did you or your husband look at your license plate at any time in that 6 months and think "Umm...it looks like it might be expired, perhaps I should investigate why"...of course not and the State knew that you would be the one who wouldn't..so they GOT YOU.
Oh and as to your "estimate" of them doing this to 3,000 people. I don't know where you pulled that out of but let's look at the numbers. If each one gets hit with a late fee of $100, that would be about $300,000. In Government that is "Petty Cash", they waste that much money on deciding what to eat for lunch. Besides if they really wanted to raise money all they have to do is add additonal "fees" to the registration.
As a Side note, I live in probably a State that is in worse shape than just about every other State out there, yet I always get the registration for my vehicles. Of course that may be because the State KNOWS that I keep track of when my registration is due so they figure it would be useless to loose mine.