- Oct 8, 2018
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Back around 2000 give or take a year the Ontario Province decided to increase the number of characters on personalized plates from 7 characters to 8. I actually wrote two different Ministers of Transportation pointing out that regular plates had 8 characters, questioning why existing personalized plates only allowed 7 characters and expressed disappointment that 7 character plates had exhausted the special opportunity for customization and stated that if they moved to 8 character plates that it would result in a large number of personal plate requests.Yea the # 1 moron ... for paying over 300 large for the plate
I actually received a personal phone call, not from the minister, but from one of his aids stating that they enjoyed my letter, thought that I must be a lawyer due to the writing style, however the purpose of the call was to inform me they were moving to 8 character personalized plates. You will be able to purchase the plate on “this date” (escapes me) but not online, only by calling the ministry and speaking with a representative.
The catch was should you want to purchase the plate on the first date of availability or within 30 day of that date the cost was $510. Should you decide to wait the 30 days and take the chance your plate selection remained available, then the cost dropped to $310.
My logic was that “Corvette” being 8 characters would go right away as well with my selection of “Venomous” (I had a Cobra Mustang back at that time) would go day one. So I called waited on hold 1 hour and bought the plate…..$510.
So to me, $310 is cheap…..ha ha