How Much Will You Pay For Your Vanity? (Trees And Things)

MayorBob: Count Me As One Of The Common Folk.

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:45:43 EST

Just plain numbers on a flat surface for me.

port1080: Re: States should get in on this...

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:43:58 EST

Inquiring minds want to know - does the Mayor have a Black and White tag to befit his title, or just a Blue & Gold tag like the common people?

Lou: Side discussion

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:17:07 EST

Worst vanity plate:
"PB4UGO"

Worse than that:
"PB4UGO 2"

Really sad vanity plate:
"BonJovi" (This one is still tootling around central Maine)

Just as sad:
ImDans

Almost clever:
H20CLR

postillion: Re: How Much Will You Pay For Your Vanity?

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:43:13 EST

Shoot. I totally thought this was going to be all about me.

I'd pay a lot to bolster my ego.

MayorBob: Re: States should get in on this...

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:41:20 EST

That $675,000 plate isn't really a vanity tag, in the accepted meaning of the term. It is an old-style classic plate (typically a plate with from one to four digits on it) placed on a black metal plate. As you say, the money for the plate goes

port1080: Re: States should get in on this...

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:07:32 EST

No, the first person to get the plate number just paid the standard fee of whatever it was at that point.

thefadd: Re: States should get in on this...

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:51:47 EST

In the case of Delaware, didn't the state hold the first auction? So they at least made that money. And don't they then charge an annual "vanity plate" fee along with the rest of the annual fees? It would be easy enough to institute if they don't.

thefadd: Re: How Much Will You Pay For Your Vanity?

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:43:20 EST

I've often thought it would be cool to have my plate say something pithy/cool/stupid but when it comes to actually plunking down the cash, I always think better of it.

port1080: States should get in on this...

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:39:15 EST

I think the whole thing is kind of bizarre, personally, but if people are willing to pay money for these numbers I think US states would be stupid not to get in on this. Delaware's system is kind of counterproductive, because since these people "own" the

skeeter1: Re: How Much Will You Pay For Your Vanity?

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:08:38 EST

Spend money for a vanity plate? Me? Not a snowball's chance in hell. I'm paying enough in road taxes already. If the rich in the middle-east want to blow their money (which probably came from the money to fill up my tank), have at i

Acefantastik: Rhode Island

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:22:04 EST

Nearly everyone who is native to Rhode Island and Providence Plantation knows or is related to a Department of Motor Vehicles employee. Thus, thousands of Rhodislanders get free vanity plates consisting of their initials and birthdays/lucky numbers.