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RealCabforce
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 5:25 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
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YOU are the only one who goes on and on about plate values - owners in Edinburgh just get on with the job.

I beg to differ, plate values are an issue many people go on and on about.

Bit like house prices, those with premiums like to talk them up, whilst those without wish they didn't exist in the first place.

Also high plate prices are evidence of SUD, and all good survey firms take plate values into consideration whilst surveying.

Which is why Jacobs missed it. [-(


Perhaps those without plates go on and on, as do those like you, outwith the H/C trade.
Within Edinburgh, those with plates don't go around bragging about plate values nor do they seem obsessed with them like Skull is.
Perhaps you would clarify the relationship between SUD and plate values?
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Perhaps you would clarify the relationship between SUD and plate values?

Following the Khalil and Middlesborough Cars-v-Middlesborough Council where the judge said that high plate values are a 'powerful indicator' of SUD, most (apart from Jacobs) SUD surveyors use plate values as evidence of SUD.

Not rocket science really, I mean who is going to pay £50,000 for a piece of plastic if the return is going to be crap?

Halcrow say (in the surveys I have on record);

The existence of a license premium is evidence of “excess” profit; that is, profit that would not exist if the level of supply and demand was determined by the market rather than by the regulator. License premiums do not exist in authorities where quantity controls are absent.

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RealCabforce wrote:
[Within Edinburgh, those with plates don't go around bragging about plate values.....


Of course they don't, because it makes the trade look bad - that's why the NTA tried to claim that plate values don't even exist :^o

Even more so in Scotland where the intention was that plates should never have been resold.

Best keep it quiet :-$

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Mack, Diesel why don't you try and answer the post? :-|

Explain to all why Mr Greenhalgh should expect preferential treatment? :-|



Okay I will endeavour to do just that, my theory as to why Mr Greenhalgh did not receive preferential treatment by the act of the Council not checking the advertisements broadcast on the Cabtivate system is just that, they are broadcast! therefore it follows that the advertisments will have been submitted to the BACC or The Advertising Standards Agency or some other body for checking, it has always been like that in this Country, Everything filled in thrice and signed by a Vicar or High Court Judge (did anyone actually know one of these people :) ) so what are you suggesting, that the Council should check the Television sets on display in shop windows for the standard of the advertising?


Anyway thats my theory, but as it features one of your Nemesis you will dispute it anyway. :roll:


Plate holder or driver Mack which is it?


Now that you've retired Skull, are you going to open a chip shop? Gawd knows your overheads will be minimal if you serve up the chips on your shoulders - they'll keep you going for months if not years!!!
YOU are the only one who goes on and on about plate values - owners in Edinburgh just get on with the job. The only time it might concern them is when they want to retire, but until then, very few even think about it.
Why does everything boil down to "driver or owner?" I know that the views held by people within the taxi trade in Edinburgh do not depend on whether they are "drivers or owners" so why not realise that YOU are wrong and change the record.


8) Remind you of anyone friend of the family perhaps.


What a lot of [edited by admin] you talk Realcabforce, the plate premium is all they think about. I've seen it all before. Driver becomes plate holder and thinks he actually owns something. Council derestrict and the so called owner is reaching for the razor blades. So much for owning a plate and not thinking about it.


This cosy little cartel has got to come to an end, its as simple as that :wink:

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