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LA Vehicle Registration Renewal: $20 savings tip
Posted on 2/10/26 at 4:52 am
Posted on 2/10/26 at 4:52 am
TL; DR: LA Wallet wanted a $23 service fee to renew my vehicle registration. Expresslane.org charged only $3.
LA Wallet is a great app for holding your driver's license, CCW permit, Hunting/Fishing licenses, etc., but you might want to skip its offer to renew your vehicle registration.
An email from LA Wallet said I was eligible to renew my vehicle registration via the app. Great, I thought, until I opened the app and saw it charged a $23 service fee.
I recalled renewing online at expresslane.org in the past for just a $3 service fee, so I waited. A few days later, the OMV renewal notice arrived in the mail, along with a renewal ID number, and I used it to go to expresslane.org and paid only a $3 service fee rather than the $23 LA Wallet wanted.
As they said in the old car commercials, your mileage may vary.
LA Wallet is a great app for holding your driver's license, CCW permit, Hunting/Fishing licenses, etc., but you might want to skip its offer to renew your vehicle registration.
An email from LA Wallet said I was eligible to renew my vehicle registration via the app. Great, I thought, until I opened the app and saw it charged a $23 service fee.
I recalled renewing online at expresslane.org in the past for just a $3 service fee, so I waited. A few days later, the OMV renewal notice arrived in the mail, along with a renewal ID number, and I used it to go to expresslane.org and paid only a $3 service fee rather than the $23 LA Wallet wanted.
As they said in the old car commercials, your mileage may vary.
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Posted on 2/10/26 at 5:24 am to Twenty 49
No service fee if you renew by mail?
Posted on 2/10/26 at 5:29 am to Twenty 49
If I understand correctly, they were not paid for development and that is how the company that wrote the app gets paid.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 5:52 am to Twenty 49
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I opened the app and saw it charged a $23 service fee.
Fees like this grind my gears.
I kid you not but Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis installed a kiosk to pay for your own buffet and handle your own cashless transaction, but the kiosk charges an extra 15 dollars to use it. It is called premium so you can skip the line.
At first, it was free, but for some reason the kiosk insisted you pay sales tax on a comped buffet while the cashier would zero the balance.
So there are scams and fees all around us.
There are others like using 3rd party shopping or restaurant apps, the item mark up plus the delivery fees and tipping make a trip to the place sound better. The crazy thing about the markup is that it is not the same for all users of the apps. The 3rd party shopping apps are using data to dynamically control prices to entice you to buy some items and mark up others to increase profits.
Then you have subscription fees for newspapers, satellite radio, and cable that come with these limited time offers for x amount of time and then they go up to the standard rate if you don’t threaten cancel again and get the same similar rates.
There should be a published rate and that is what you pay, If no one is buying your product at full price maybe it is time to reduce rates or come up with less complicated subscription models.
The Advocate is one. Base rate is something like 19-25 dollars a month, but you can do a year at times for 99 dollars, 6.99 every 4 weeks, 9.99 every 4 weeks, or 1 dollar 5 months and then 18.99 every 4 weeks. That every 4 weeks is even more slimy because over time they get you for an additional month and your payment will never be on the same day, good luck balancing a check book with a random extra charge.
This post was edited on 2/10/26 at 5:54 am
Posted on 2/10/26 at 7:02 am to Twenty 49
I've gotta hand it to them.
They've figured out a way to monetize shitty, inefficient services, by charging a premium for doing their normal job.
They've figured out a way to monetize shitty, inefficient services, by charging a premium for doing their normal job.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 7:11 am to Twenty 49
Why don’t you just mail it in and pay zero fees to anyone?
Posted on 2/10/26 at 7:13 am to TCrown
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No service fee if you renew by mail?
Yes. Somehow as taxpayers we are punished by using the method that requires fewer people and less risk of our information being lost.
The free version requires check writing, envelope and stamp usage, physical collection, vehicular transportation, sorting, shipping, unpacking, opening, sorting, reading, typing all the info you would have typed yourself, fund verification, then mail your sticker. It is killing the environment.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 7:31 am to Twenty 49
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Great, I thought, until I opened the app and saw it charged a $23 service fee.
I recalled renewing online at expresslane.org in the past for just a $3 service fee, so I waited.
One of the very few things I write a check for, no service fee. Screw giving the state any extra money.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 7:56 am to Tarps99
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There should be a published rate and that is what you pay, If no one is buying your product at full price maybe it is time to reduce rates or come up with less complicated subscription models.
It's like we're all haggling at a third world marketplace.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:02 am to Twenty 49
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CCW permit
Umm...is LA not constitutional Carry yet like the rest of the free world?
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:14 am to forkedintheroad
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Umm...is LA not constitutional Carry yet like the rest of the free world?
Yes it is. But I renewed mine just in case I wanted to go to Texas or North Carolina and keep mine hidden.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:21 am to Twenty 49
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LA Wallet wanted a $23 service fee to renew my vehicle registration.
Is it possible that you’re viewing the “$23 service fee” on LA Wallet as the actual total cost ?
This post was edited on 2/10/26 at 8:57 am
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:23 am to LSUBFA83
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It's like we're all haggling at a third world marketplace.
Have you seen health care and its complicated set of Billed price, insurance discount, copays, deductibles, coinsurance, in network, out of network, etc?
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:40 am to JimTiger72
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Is it possible that you’re viewing the “$23 service fee” on LA Wallet as the actual total cost ?
No. The registration renewal fee was $82, plus a $23 service fee if done via LA wallet. A friend had the same experience.
I resisted all online-payment service fees for years, and would just mail a check, but now I have so little faith in the postal service (and so much concern about check thieves that pilfer the mail) that I'm willing to pay $3 to pay online.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:51 am to RemyLeBeau
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less risk of our information being lost.
Paper is only as secure as who is handling it. Says the guy that saw a major furniture store with thousands of credit applications in boxes stored in a hallway accessible to the public without monitoring or visibility by employees.
And if you think State.gov is much better, you are sorely mistaken.
Paper recycles easily, it's not a big deal. The forms wouldn't be typed by hand anyway, they'd be scanned with OCR. All of the sorting, reading, printing and mailing of the sticker, etc. is done mechanically, not by some old lady with a letter opener.
The state is always most efficient at collecting money.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 8:54 am to Twenty 49
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The registration renewal fee was $82
Posted on 2/10/26 at 9:29 am to JimTiger72
Jim, You seem shocked at a $82 registration fee, so maybe you are mixing up registration and inspection. We're talking about the annual registration that gets you the registration paperwork and the tiny sticker for your license plate. The registration fee is based on the value of the car.
We're not talking about the $10 (or $20 for two years) inspection sticker.
We're not talking about the $10 (or $20 for two years) inspection sticker.
Posted on 2/10/26 at 10:17 am to Twenty 49
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Jim, You seem shocked at a $82 registration fee, so maybe you are mixing up registration and inspection. We're talking about the annual registration that gets you the registration paperwork and the tiny sticker for your license plate. The registration fee is based on the value of the car.
We're not talking about the $10 (or $20 for two years) inspection sticker.
I bet the legislature rolls that 10 or 20 dollar fee into your registration.
Although that is better than the inconvenience of finding an inspection place and getting it done there.
The legislature should also ban municpalities from issuing their own. I think the City of Kenner and New Orleans have their own inspection gestapo.
This post was edited on 2/10/26 at 10:29 am
Posted on 2/10/26 at 10:50 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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One of the very few things I write a check for, no service fee. Screw giving the state any extra money.
Awfully brave trusting the USPS in Louisiana to timely deliver
And now that they no longer postmark at the local office, you can’t even rely on that if they get your renewal late
$3 for immediate confirmation is just a cost of life. It sucks but I don’t trust the alternatives
This post was edited on 2/10/26 at 10:51 am
Posted on 2/10/26 at 10:51 am to Twenty 49
I didn’t know you could renew in app.
Sounds like similar fees to those public tag agency places.
Sounds like similar fees to those public tag agency places.
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