{"id":11705,"date":"2014-11-14T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11705"},"modified":"2014-11-14T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T13:02:49","slug":"333355-a-number-worth-55-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/333355-a-number-worth-55-million\/","title":{"rendered":"333355: A Number Worth $55 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/111414_1300_333355ANumb1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Qatar is running an online auction for special vehicle license plate numbers. Elysia Windrum reported on some of the more astounding numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the 19 license plate numbers being auctioned, number 333355 has attracted a bid for $55 million \u2013 and may go higher.<\/li>\n<li>To put things in perspective, one could purchase about 20 of the Bugatti cars depicted above for that amount.<\/li>\n<li>The BBC reports that the allure of an easy to remember number is such that in the past people have taken out loans to bid for appealing numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Qatar set a Guinness World Record in 2006 when it auctioned off the telephone\u00a0number 666-6666 for $3.7 million.<\/li>\n<li>Winners of the license plate auction will have two days to pony up the cash or be fined $5,492.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the auction, how it works, similar promotions and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/dohanews.co\/bids-special-license-plate-numbers-surpass-qr200m-online-auction\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/dohanews.co\/bids-special-license-plate-numbers-surpass-qr200m-online-auction\/\">Doha News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-30041957\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar is running an online auction for special vehicle license plate numbers. Elysia Windrum reported on some of the more astounding numbers: Of the 19 license plate numbers being auctioned, number 333355 has attracted a bid for $55 million \u2013 and may go higher. To put things in perspective, one could purchase about 20 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/111414_1300_333355ANumb1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11708,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11705\/revisions\/11708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}