My Plates is a Texas-based company that was awarded a contract by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) to design, market and sell new Specialty license plates in the State of Texas. The first company that was awarded the contract to run My Plates ceased operations last fall, citing the U.S. economic crisis. Perhaps this was a sign of the type of shaky business practices we had to look forward to from this new venture. In August 2009, TxDOT awarded a new contract to a joint venture between Pinnacle Technical Resources of Dallas (www.pinnacle1.com) and Etech, Inc. of Nacogdoches (www.etechinc.com). My Plates sales resumed November 19, 2009.
At the time of this post, Etech, Inc. of Nacogdoches is listed on the Texas Comptroller of Public accounts with the following status: NOT IN GOOD STANDING. Typically, when a company fails to file a franchise company report (which every Texas business is required to do), the company is no longer in good standing (view the account status on the Texas Comptroller website). My request for an explanation from MyPlates about why the parent company is not in good standing has been ignored. My question has been posted on the MyPlates fan page on Facebook if you want to see for yourself. Interestingly, MyPlates has ignored many of my questions.
Maybe there is a good explanation for this status. Maybe there are two Etech, Inc. companies in Nacogdoches… Or perhaps the company has received special exemptions. Whatever the case, my question has been publicly ignored by MyPlates. So based on my previous experiences with MyPlates, I continue to assume that this is business as usual for the shady operation.
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Follow your link above knucklehead. The company you reference is actually in good standing.
Get a life.
I like this comment for 3 reasons:
1. I am fairly confident, based on the IP address, that this is an employee of (or somebody close to) Etech, Inc. / MyPlates.com. Care to give your real name? I did.
2. The certificate has indeed been updated, and MyPlates is paying attention to me.
3. Nobody says knucklehead anymore, it’s good to see it again.
once you could have personal tags for 60 dollars a year without having to commit to 10 years, i think it sucks. myplates lost my business. maybe the state needs to look in to some other companies that my be a little bit more reasonably priced!!!!!
I don’t think there should be a 10 year commitment. At my age I don’t even buy green bananas..
My Plates has a license to steal and some one is benefiting from the multi year sales . It aggravating to call in and be HIGH PRESSURED to go for a multi year deal @@@ I will keep my money in my pocket till things change!!