New legislation in Florida could penalize the nomination scalpers with fines of up to $ 500 per violation
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- Florida’s DMV meeting scalpers use robots to enter slots, returning to $ 250.
- The scalpers cause inflated delays and prices, which makes it more difficult for the inhabitants to obtain appointments.
- The Miami-Dade tax collector, Dariel Fernandez, promises to stop them, guaranteeing equal access to the services.
Imagine needing a DMV appointment to manage any business, then realize that there are no slots available. Does that seem familiar? Well, this is exactly what many Florida residents were faced with recently. And, for any reason, that is also why many have decided that paying hundreds of dollars to guarantee an appointment is a reasonable choice. Enter the Scalpers, who take advantage of this mess – and now they start to feel the pressure.
This heat is not only Florida’s sun either. It is the tax collector of Miami-Dade, Dariel Fernandez, who says he understood the entire program. “We know who they are and how they operate. We will not accept any appointment obtained by the abuse of the system, ”said Fernandez. “Our office is committed to ensuring that all residents have fair and equal access to the services without interference of those who seek to exploit the system.”
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According to Miami Herald, “the lines outside the DMV offices managed by the state can form the previous night for appointments, and people say they had to wait for months to get appointments.” It really makes me feel much better in my DMV situation at two o’clock in Arkansas. Even more when we consider how the scalpers have done their thing. Obviously, they would use boots to tear off the appointments when the state made them available.
Then they sold the appointments to citizens for between $ 25 and $ 250 each. It’s true, people dropped money just to go and face one of the least pleasant places on the earth. That said, this whole situation is supposed to end.
“We take proactive measures to improve our technology and our processes to fight against this problem,” added Fernandez. “However, it is imperative that we have the legal framework in place to penalize the bad actors and dissuade this practice.”
To this end, the State has introduced new legislation which would allow it to penalize the scalpers with fines of $ 500 per violation. In fact, the definition of violation is large enough to include those who promote the sale of public service appointments, those who list them or those who publish them.
