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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it is pilong on. The fact is the vast majority of EZ Pass users have no problems or if they have a problem or is cleared up quickly. In the years of using EZ PAss we have never had a problem that wasn't cleared up quickly and easily. Most recently we ended up on a toll road (no toll booths) outside Toronto and was easily tracked down via our EZ Pass. Once we received the notice we paid. I am just confused on how you get 50 violations which you know about, continue to use EZ pass while you are clearly having a problem and just don't call. Not to mention. That OP said BOTH license plates were inputed incorrectly. Not sure how EZ pass can help people who can't input their own information correctly. [/quote]

This is BS on levels. First of all, this isn't unusual, one google search for ez pass fines gives you just the latest: https://www.google.com/search?q=ez+pass+fines&oq=ez+pass+fines&aqs=chrome..69i57.2429j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=ez+pass+fines&tbm=nws

OP certainly should have been more on top of it. Anyone getting a fine from EZ Pass made an error of some type. But if I get a parking ticket in Alexandria for 40 bucks and don't pay it then after 30 days it becomes 65, then it doubles to 130, then I think another fine is added, lets call it 50 bucks and it is sent to collections or deducted from my VA tax return. Acting very irresponsible never turns that initial minor victimless crime into something that could bankrupt my family. It does get a little steep but there is a ceiling, and generally the final fine is never going to be more than like 400% of the original fine.

I only accidentally went through a $1 toll without my EZ pass by mistake on the express lanes. It became a $120 fine within 3 months! I don't even know how much a percentage growth that is. EZ Pass hasn't been inconvenienced $100 worth because I ran a toll by accident. This is not enforcement, this is profiting off of the public.

EZ Pass is predatory and a local monopoly. [/quote]

Uh, you got a letter well before it went to $120.

Also, you could have gone online well before a letter was sent an owned up to it and not paid anywhere near $120. [/quote]

I paid the 120, I'm not trying to get out of it, and you're correct I had gotten letters.

The point that I am making is that there is almost no other scenario where fines go up like 1000+% in a relatively short period of time and where there appears to be no ceiling to the doubling/tripling etc.

This isn't enforcement it is predatory.

I am UMC so whatever it's not going to kill me. But there are people who have to choose between keeping the lights on and paying a ticket and a setup like this sets those people up for a slow spiral towards bankruptcy.

This is about lining ez passes pockets. No one is arguing against finest they're arguing against crazy excessive fines.[/quote]

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