Trivia: What do I sell?

Anything using pre decimal currency eg a coin handling machine (I forget the exact transition date) ? Assuming the customer was in the UK.

Daytona

He can indicate that he wishes to install it in a post-72 place, so that you can legally sell it to him. Then he can "change his mind" and install it in a pre-72 place where he can legally use it.

Problem solved.

We haven't had the answer to the previous quiz yet, the £8 item being installed in, inter alia, a drop dead gorgeous £120k object. Could the latter be a special edition TVR? Then the former could be pairs either of furry dice or number plates. A meringue?

Black and silver number plates?

Regards Andrew

Huh? Those old cars can still run around with the old-style plates.

Matti

Number plates

a) who cares ? b) it's off topic! c) if YOU don't know what you're selling you're a bigger tosser than we all imagine!

OK, the part about being able to use or not I get.

But how does the bit about being able to sell or not, work? Either I can sell and charge for said item, or I can't. How can the intended use by the buyer affect this?

tim

Yeah, or maybe musical air horns?

I hope you are not being sarcastic.

This *is* the previous quiz. A double check during the week revealed the drop dead gorgeous object was of the hitherto unimagined £540K variety.

Yup, spot on.

your wife

Please explain -- I'm dubious!

Matti

We already know that, but I think you mean you're doubtful. :-)

Matti it is illegal to fit a silver on black number plate to your car unless the car was first registered before 1973. Because in the 1973 onwards scenario it is not a legal number plate it doesn't fall under the number plate legislation anbd you can buy it. You can't fit it to your car unless your car is in a showroom etc.

In the pre-1973 version it *is* a number plate so you need to present me with your RPNS number (which I know you don't have) before I can legally let you have it. Clear?

I know all that, but your "puzzle" implied that you couldn't legally sell such a plate to the owner of a pre-73 car. Which is not the case, as no such rule is given in the link you supplied below.

Matti

Not to mention that I don't really understand how the seller can differentiate between someone buying a numberplate and someone buying a nameplate or something similar. What if I want metal nameplates on my factory doors that go AAA 100 AAA 101 AAA 102 etc.?

Everyone seems to have stopped bothering about this legislation now, for a while it was diffcult to get a numberplate made without all the documentation but it seems easy enough again now.

That's fine. It is even OK to have something that looks very like a number plate to put on the wall of the car park to indicate which car the space belongs to.

Only when you supply it for fitting on a car is there a problem.

Dubious: ...of doubtful issue...of questionable value or truth...[fr. L dubiousus (dubium doubt)...] COD

That is given as the first definition in the New Shorter OED; the second is "wavering in opinion, hesitant, inclined to doubt, expressing uncertainty". Both arose at around the same time, the middle of the

So bollocks to the lot of yer!

Matti