Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
Nov 8th 2009, 12:00 pm
#48
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
Or wait, is it Organ Grinder? I always get those mixed up.
I think this was mid-90s
Nov 9th 2009, 12:56 am
#50
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
So, I guess you think that all the people who have outstanding tickets, no car insurance, suspended/revoked drivers licenses and/or unsafe cars will just willingly come forward and voluntarily pay their registration fees? And that the authorities should simply take everyone else's word for it that they're "OK" with nothing to hide?
Very ironic, considering what you asked in your very first BE post.
Look, you have basically 4 options: Keep your car and pay the registration fee, keep your car and DON'T pay the registration fee (with possible consequences), sell your car, or move to a location where residents aren't charged annual registration fees. The choice is yours.
~ Jenney
Very ironic, considering what you asked in your very first BE post.
Look, you have basically 4 options: Keep your car and pay the registration fee, keep your car and DON'T pay the registration fee (with possible consequences), sell your car, or move to a location where residents aren't charged annual registration fees. The choice is yours.
~ Jenney
Nov 9th 2009, 3:03 am
#52
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
Indeed. However, I find it ironic that the same people complaining that someone is whingeing about vehicle registration, car insurance costs are the very same people that complain the loudest whenever the issue of healthcare costs rear their ugly head. Best stop whingeing about that, this is a different country after all...
Nov 9th 2009, 4:43 am
#53
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
so i take a year off from BE, and come back to see nothing has changed... more new users with shitty attitudes and dumb questions, attacking those who comment (humorous or serious) if the posts aren't kissing the OP's ass.
why cant we have anti-karma?
why cant we have anti-karma?
Nov 9th 2009, 4:49 am
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
So, I guess you think that all the people who have outstanding tickets, no car insurance, suspended/revoked drivers licenses and/or unsafe cars will just willingly come forward and voluntarily pay their registration fees? And that the authorities should simply take everyone else's word for it that they're "OK" with nothing to hide?
On first glance, I would have thought that these things would be held/triggered electronically by some mechanism.
Very ironic, considering what you asked in your very first BE post.
Please do read things properly, especially if you're going to point fingers.
It does help, you know.
Finally, anyone who starts a sentence with "Look", towards someone they don't know, is at best, terse, at worst, screaming their head off and so, in no position or state of mind to direct their words to anyone who is simply seeking knowledge and understanding.
Nov 9th 2009, 4:50 am
#55
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
This tells us more than anything else about you.
Nov 9th 2009, 6:21 am
#57
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
No idea about where you are but here is what it's for in OH.
Basic passenger registration is about $35 per year.
$20 is put in a pool that goes to all the districts to maintain roads
$11 goes towards a highway safety fund to cover cover highway law enforcement
The rest goes to the registrar to cover the cost of doing and maintaining the registration.
Now compare that to a £125 or £195 per year (+ emissions fee) road tax in the UK and I think I make out pretty good here.
Basic passenger registration is about $35 per year.
$20 is put in a pool that goes to all the districts to maintain roads
$11 goes towards a highway safety fund to cover cover highway law enforcement
The rest goes to the registrar to cover the cost of doing and maintaining the registration.
Now compare that to a £125 or £195 per year (+ emissions fee) road tax in the UK and I think I make out pretty good here.
Nov 9th 2009, 6:32 am
#58
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
To be perfectly frank, Sonic. It doesn't matter how the money is used by our particular state. It is your state's law to require all vehicles to pay a registration fee every year. So you really only have very few options - either pay it or don't.
Now, I can understand your need to complain about it, but it is what it is and no amount of analyzing the need for this fee will make it go away.
Now, I can understand your need to complain about it, but it is what it is and no amount of analyzing the need for this fee will make it go away.
Nov 9th 2009, 6:37 am
#59
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
OK -- but I'd suggest being more tolerant of new users. If we smack them down immediately because of shitty attitude, dumb questions, and general "where-can-I-get-proper-british-bacon-and-UK-television" whininess, most of them will go away in a huff and never come back. However, if they stick around for a bit, quietly observe the cultural nuances of the BE forum, some at least will become worthwhile interlocutors..
Nov 9th 2009, 7:09 am
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Re: Vehicle Registration - this feels like a scam
OK -- but I'd suggest being more tolerant of new users. If we smack them down immediately because of shitty attitude, dumb questions, and general "where-can-I-get-proper-british-bacon-and-UK-television" whininess, most of them will go away in a huff and never come back. However, if they stick around for a bit, quietly observe the cultural nuances of the BE forum, some at least will become worthwhile interlocutors..
I dont mind the dumb questions, its the dumb question askers with bad attitudes that cause many long term members to walk away that i take offense to. I know of at least a half dozen members (who i stay in contact with personally) who left because of the level of ignorance and belligerence that some members display, Sonic being a prime example.
