car number fetishists come from today on Thursday: “ZH 505” comes under the Hammer. The online auction started at 7 p.m., the minimum bid amount to 4000 francs and has already been offered to 41 minutes. Never been to the Zurich street traffic office such a deep car has released number. The previously deepest number ZH 705.
According to Director of Security Mario Fehr (SP) is not planned “at the Moment, we will auction even lower numbers than “ZH 505″”. His goal is a minimum revenue of 50’000 francs. The money flows directly in the Zurich state Treasury.
number of auctions were introduced in the Canton of Zurich in 1995, and since 2006 these can be found online. Three digit numbers will be but auctioned only for ten months. The first number – “ZH 987” – brought 152’400 Swiss francs. This meant Zurich’s record, and Switzerland, rank 3, after “SG 10” (233’000 Swiss francs), and “VS 1” (160’100). 1998 1000 “ZH” for 131’000 Swiss francs left.
revenue increased by 50%
thanks to the three-digit numbers, the annual revenue increased by 1.2 million Swiss francs. By 2017, 2.5 million flowed on the average into the Fund, last year there were 3.7 million.
the Zurich numbers-Hits 2018/19: ZH 987: 152’400 Swiss francs ZH 707: 60’000 Swiss francs ZH 977: 50’000 Swiss francs ZH 917: 43’000 Swiss francs ZH 808: 39’600 Swiss francs
The government had refused for years, to auction off numbers under 1000. He feared that the revenues for the four – and five-digit numbers to collapse. This does not happen, as Severin Toberer, spokesman for the road traffic office, says. “These revenues have remained stable.”
when to ZH 1 000 000″”?
Two – or even single-digit control numbers will not be auctioned, according to Toberer “for the foreseeable future”. Perhaps numbers such as “ZH 999 999” or “ZH 1 000 000 is yet to come” under the Hammer. Currently, the numbers are assigned to “ZH 932 000”. In the case of a rise of around 8000 numbers of the year it could take eight or nine years, until the Million is reached.
for the time being, the road traffic is concentrated velvet on the three-digit numbers. The auction of the “ZH 505” ends next Wednesday at 19 o’clock, provided there is no new bid in the last five minutes prior to end of auction. Otherwise, the auction is extended by five minutes, to a bid will not be outbid for five minutes.
In the Canton of Zug come from 7. March, the numbers “SG 19”, “SG 44” and “ZG 91” under the Hammer. The motorcycle numbers “SG 7” “SG 13” will be available. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 30.01.2019, 16:55 PM
