What is an e-filing fee?
I estimate my 2012 S ZF9 is virtually worthless. I would probably have to advertise it for moped level money to get it to sell.
An e-filing fee pays for a new way of registering motor vehicles in CA. Our DMV doesn't like to deal directly with the public, especially those creepy people who buy and sell vehicles. So they have contracted with a private company, gave them a pile of license plates from the local prison license plate manufacturing plant and let the do their work for them, while the public pays a fee for that service. It is a win-win for the DMV and the private company. Not so much for the customer, though.
The DMV staff gets paid for doing nothing and the private company gets to make money at a job where there was none before. However, you do get your license plate and "pink slip" much faster when the company does the work. My plate arrived within 10 days and the title arrived the next day. But for this (mandatory) service you pay the e-filing fee.
It seems like every time someone comes up with a way of cutting labor costs using computers or computer programs, such as ATM's, tax return e-filing, or any number of other computer-filing processes, there is a fee involved that did not exist before.