Personalised Plates

[Griffin]

This may have been done before but I am too stunned to care.

I thought it would be kinda cool to get a personalised plate for my new bike and so rang the PP people yesterday to throw my idea at them and get a price etc... $749 ????

$749 ? How ? Why ? It costs $26 to replace your plates if they are lost or stolen... so therefore the cost of a set of plates to be manufactured is $26 or less. What in the hell is the remaining $723 covering besides lining the pockets of the PP company?

Last time I had anything to do with Personalised Plates my brother bought one for his car (admittedly that was 15 + years ago) and he paid $250 thereabouts... and even that was considered a high price to pay for two bits of tin. For $750 I can have my "idea" professionally sprayed all over my bikes tank and probably get change!

[mowgli]

Geez that's steep. I paid about four hundy back in the late nineties.

I think the pricing is something to do with them being considered tradable as investment plates. Personnally I think that's a crock. In my experience most PPs only have significance to the original owner and are never traded.

[CookMySock]

last one I bought was 4hundy ish, but yeah they can stick that price.


DB

[Mom]

I wanted to get one for Maha for his birthday. I was gobsmacked when the guy told me the price. I said I only want one, it is for a motorbike! That did not matter. Much as I love my man I can think of many better things to spend my money on frankly.

I bought a set for a car about 6 years ago, cost just under $500 then.

Anyone want a plate that says CHRLYS

Charlie was my nickname, the plate was on my MX5, it now resides on a shlf in the garage.

[vifferman]

It costs $26 to replace your plates if they are lost or stolen... so therefore the cost of a set of plates to be manufactured is $26 or less.

Less it is.
Last time I 'lost' a plate (it wasn't lost - just the wrong shape), it cost $8.

[yod]

mine was about $450 in 2000

can't say im surprised tho, give it another 5-10 years, they'll be $1200 or summat

[Nordy]

bloody hell. I paid $350 about 10 years ago for my plate and $500ish for hubbys a few years later. Glad I did it then and not now.

[yod]

Less it is.
Last time I 'lost' a plate (it wasn't lost - just the wrong shape), it cost $8.

i think it's $9 now



but just to transfer from one car to another without a replacement plate, it's the princely sum of 20c - I didn't have any change on me the last time I did this so the nice lady behind the counter at the AA paid it for me! top chick!

[Boob Johnson]

Anyone want a plate that says CHRLYS

Charlie was my nickname, the plate was on my MX5, it now resides on a shelf in the garage.

Sure ill take it off your hands.

[Griffin]

I wanted to get one for Maha for his birthday. I was gobsmacked when the guy told me the price. I said I only want one, it is for a motorbike! That did not matter.

Yeah I said the same thing - I figured surely for a motorbike it would be less than a car but apparently your paying for the 'right to own that particular combination of letters' and therefore the price stands.

I reckon they are outta their minds - it appears that nowadays P Plates are only for those with more money than a bull can sh*t

[TOTO]

yea, and you can't even get the one with small writing on them for bikes

I checked it out too , but yea , 750 is too much.

My ideas for spending $750:


1. Buy a new meaty exhaust

2. Buy a Set of new sticky tyres

3. Do the Coro Loop 9 times

[Mikkel]

$749 ? How ? Why ? It costs $26 to replace your plates if they are lost or stolen... so therefore the cost of a set of plates to be manufactured is $26 or less. What in the hell is the remaining $723 covering besides lining the pockets of the PP company?

Well, lining the pockets of the PP company is probably the PP company's primary directive

Last time I had anything to do with Personalised Plates my brother bought one for his car (admittedly that was 15 + years ago) and he paid $250 thereabouts... and even that was considered a high price to pay for two bits of tin. For $750 I can have my "idea" professionally sprayed all over my bikes tank and probably get change!

If it's for your bike it's all of a sudden one piece of tin - and you could then argue it's twice as expensive...


Anyone know what the $750 covers? I mean, obviously it can not be the fabrication of the plate itself - must be some bureaucratic overhead, in which case I guess $750 is pretty cheap considering what other bureaucratic overheads ring in at...
Also, I have seen plates that seem to be homemade - what are the requirements for a numberplate here in NZ?

[Mom]

Sure ill take it off your hands.

$400 and its all yours! I will use it and some of my own to buy Maha that plate he so badly needs on his new bike

[Rockbuddy]

I just pick one up for my fathers bday of tardme for $225 but also just got one for the bike $750 from the plates.co.nz so

[mowgli]

Shit!!!!! Check out the price of these plates ....... lost for words