In CA and AZ vanity plates are first come, first served. You cannot sell them either. You either keep them on a car, or you can keep on paying to keep it out of circulation forever. But once you give it up it goes back to the pool, and someone can get it.

Also, my vanity plate is $0 more than a normal plate. Why wouldn't I?

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0xffff2 3 days ago | parent [-]

I guess you're in AZ? In CA, the absurd yearly cost is enough to keep me from bothering with anything more than the basic olates.

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OptionOfT 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-education-and-safety/ed...

No price difference for the yellow on black plate when you want personalized.

	▲	0xffff2 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, but the plate itself was $100/year last time I looked, which is outrageous. (It looks like it's $50/year now. I swear that's lower than it used to be)

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hn_acc1 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This. When I moved from Ontario, Canada (where they charge a yearly fee for them), to CA, I was all excited to get a vanity plate - until I saw they also charge a yearly fee..

In the most ironic twist of all - Ontario did away with license plate renewals a few years ago, and now, I would actually consider a vanity plate..

I've always wondered if a regular plate was better for avoiding speeding tickets - a vanity plate is much easier to validate, IMHO.

	▲	fy20 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I had a friend who used to work as a QA for an ANPR parking system. He said that they had to investigate an issue where the car with 11111 kept appearing in the system as unpaid, but at different places across the network at the same time. The issue turned out to be drain covers in the field of the view of the cameras, which the system was detecting belonged to car 11111.