Personalised number plates and snobbery?

Barks · 13 Jan 2009 at 02:43

mrk said:
Adds up to what exactly? you only buy a personal plate once...and it's with you for life so it goes with you from car to car, not just stuck onto the same car forever!

Mine for example means something to me and those who know me by name will instantly recognise it too - But it would mean jack all to anyone else, well except for that Canadian rapper who has the same name as me...

It still doesn't mean a firm should make millions of pounds of profit through it purely because they have the sole ability to do so.

gareth.e · 13 Jan 2009 at 02:48

scott212 said:
It still doesn't mean a firm should make millions of pounds of profit through it purely because they have the sole ability to do so.

Do you know what the purpose of a business is?

Barks · 13 Jan 2009 at 02:57

gareth.e said:
Do you know what the purpose of a business is?

To provide a good or service thus generating money via exploitation

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), (Welsh: Asiantaeth Trwyddedu Gyrwyr a Cherbydau) is the organisation of UK Government responsible for maintaining a database of drivers and a database of vehicles in Great Britain; its counterpart in Northern Ireland is the Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA). The agency issues driving licences, organises collection of vehicle excise duty (also known as road tax and road fund licence) and sells "cherished marks" (private number plates).

So who the hell gave the government permission to start selling "cherished marks" for profit?

[TW]Fox · 13 Jan 2009 at 08:14

scott212 said:
To provide a good or service thus generating money via exploitation

Wrong - to maximise shareholder value.

So who the hell gave the government permission to start selling "cherished marks" for profit?

Why not? Provides money which would otherwise have to come from increased taxes.