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Insurance companies erecting arbitrary barriers between you and a claims payment? Color me unsurprised. As for unregistering the car, I've heard of (US-based)

• mschuster91 4y ago
  > but I didn't run into (Germany-based) "Kfz-Zulassungsstellenwitze" yet. Well... the situation used to be so bad that making jokes was inappropriate. Like, you had to wait months to even get an appointment to register your freshly bought car in 2020 [1] - and that was not due to covid, extremely long wait times were a common complaint for many years before. [1] https://www.autobild.de/artikel/kfz-zulassung-chaos-bei-den-behoerden-17392601.html https://www.autobild.de/artikel/kfz-zulassung-chaos-bei-den-...
• lesuorac 4y ago
  > As for unregistering the car, I've heard of (US-based) DMV jokes (like "Flash" in Zootopia) YMMV. When I went to return a plate there was a general line for everybody but an employee with a tablet was walking through it taking care of the trivial matters (i.e. plate return) so it ended up being <5mins for me. Years later, when I was registering a car it was an appointment system so I also got seen in <5mins. Of course, many years before either of those I was getting a new license and the general line gets you a ticket with a letter and the person ahead of me with that letter had some complicated scenario so I got stuck waiting a long time behind them while other letters went significantly faster ...