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License plate collecting with the Wizard
| December 6th, 2015 at 7:31:54 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
$2650. Sheesh! Something is worth what you can get somebody else to pay for it. Whatever the auction closes for today would be a good gauge of that and I predict it closes around $1,000. Speaking of which, here is another phony auction. These are nice plates, I'll grant that, but $9,995?! No way. I'd put the value more like $2,000. Anyway, this guys keeps running this auction over and over and it never closes. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| December 6th, 2015 at 7:33:59 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18255 |
This guy never heard of insuring a package? The President is a fink. |
| December 6th, 2015 at 7:37:05 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Yeah, I forgot to gripe about that rule about not shipping. Just ridiculous. I saw another auction where a guy demanded a personal pick-up somewhere in New Hampshire for a set of plates that weren't even worth that much. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| December 6th, 2015 at 8:09:17 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | The auction closed, someone offered $1,500 and it was sold. I wonder what the reserve was? Also, there were some bids from a mystery bidder who had no feedback. I wonder if these were shill bids to run up the price? |
| December 6th, 2015 at 9:06:21 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
Almost impossible to shill bid on Ebay now, it's a good way to get banned for life as a seller. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| December 7th, 2015 at 6:17:06 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | I'm glad I didn't bet that it wouldn't close. I wonder what happened to the back license plate with the sticker. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| January 28th, 2016 at 4:09:49 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | My Chinese license plates. Click on any image for larger version.          Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| January 29th, 2016 at 3:11:01 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | I'm curious why they use Arabic numbers. Are Arabic numbers widely used in the mainland? |
| January 29th, 2016 at 3:42:15 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Those aren't Arabic numbers. They have their own symbols for numbers, but for license plates and very official purposes they use the same 0 to 9 that we use. The Chinese symbols are generally the province but sometimes other words like "police" or "rental car." Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| January 29th, 2016 at 3:52:05 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | I'm more surprised there are Latin letters. Maybe the Romans did make it all the way to China! ;) Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |