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Money in icecream?

  • 09-06-2009 7:56am
    #1
    Kafer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭


    Saw an icecream van yesterday with the reg 09-C-99. Plate cost the guy 1000 euro.

    Surely the vehicle would be costing in the region of 50K fitted out (Transit).

    These guys must be (ice)creaming it :D


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  • #2
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    The plate may have cost 1000 Euro if it was bought in the last year, prior to that it was 315 Euro.


  • #3
    Kafer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭Kafer


    ned78 wrote: »
    The plate may have cost 1000 Euro if it was bought in the last year, prior to that it was 315 Euro.

    09 ?


  • #4
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Bleurgh, I'll go get some coffee. I thought it said 99C99. My bad. :pac:


  • #5
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,378 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    At 2.50 for a bottle of coke, there's enough profit to make it a consideration.


  • #6
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    ned78 wrote: »
    The plate may have cost 1000 Euro if it was bought in the last year, prior to that it was 315 Euro.

    You could be right, you can pay for & reserve the registrations numbers form October in the previous year. So the Ice Cream man could have gotten it last year for the €315 fee.


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  • #7
    Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    Could he not just have gotten it by luck? Who would reserve a plate for a ice cream van. Even if it does hint at people to get a lovely 99 mmmm:D


  • #8
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Vain wrote: »
    Could he not just have gotten it by luck?

    All plates from 1-250 are reserved by the revenue for each county. Also, interesting numbers like 911, 222, 333, 999, 1000, 1111, 2222, are also reserved. 1 is given to the Mayors of a few counties, and you can pay to have any of the others.


  • #9
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Kafer wrote: »
    Surely the vehicle would be costing in the region of 50K fitted out (Transit).

    One of those gold-plated Transits with the diamond-encrusted headlights?


  • #10
    TomMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭TomMc


    rebel.ranter wrote: »
    You could be right, you can pay for & reserve the registrations numbers form October in the previous year. So the Ice Cream man could have gotten it last year for the €315 fee.

    + 1.

    The E1000 is a bit much for most people. Although maybe not for those that work in the black economy.

    I've just done a check on popular local numbers and what do I find? VW Caddy, Opel Astra, Kia Ceed, Massey Ferguson, Nissan Note, Fiat Punto, Skoda Octavia and most aren't high spec ones either. If the change came about on the 7th Oct last and applications are only actioned from November, either some people applied very early (and the old fee was allowed to stand) or a lot of the numbers are now been allocated anyway by default. Not all, but a higher proportion of them.


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