Wednesday, January 26, 2011

UAE plates are ... auction

United Arab Emirates, the home par excellence of ostentatious wealth, it is fashionable require special license plates for "tailor" their car. The problem is that to obtain such license plates with numbers or letters ad hoc, some people are willing to spend considerable figures, if not astronomical in some cases exceed the value of the car in which they are mounted.

To a man, just released from a shopping center, were offered the equivalent of 4,000 EURO / assign the license plate of his car, whose combination of letters and numbers, of course, had a special meaning to the "buyer". But even this figure is paltry compared to that paid out three years ago by a wealthy motorist, who simply grabbing the plate marked with the number 1 paid the equivalent of 10 million €.

In this case, the plaque was put up for auction directly from the company that produces these supports alpha-numeric. If this is the number 1 is an extreme case, the authorities have candidly admitted that such auctions take place regularly, even if the final prices are dramatically lower.

Some say that everything has a price: it seems that the plates 1 to 10 are snapped pulling allowances to 6 zeros, while those between 11 and 99 were sold at a price much lower. In short: they increase and decrease the numbers on the plate than on the final price. One wonders, however, as a billionaire would be willing to pay a sum to 6 zeros to grab the license plate number 2.

Some believe, however, that the personalized license plates to help maintain the value of the vehicle even after years.

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