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Posted: 22:39 - 09 Aug 2019 Post subject: |
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I've used Regtransfers a few times, so I know they're legit, it is a bit of a lottery though.
They offer you a valuation and, if you're happy, they put it on their website (you don't get anything up front) and it sits there until someone makes an offer, which could be next week, next month or in 10 years.
The whole thing is entirely reliant on somebody searching for your plate, so unless it's a reasonably meaningful set of letters (how many people have the initials ZXA) it could be there forever.
Single digit plates generally sell better, 1 being the best, unless the digits can be read as something, so 14N works for me, as my name is Ian.
Having said that, I had a 1 plate with a reasonable set of initials (middle one was W, which made it more difficult) and that took more than two years to sell.
Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to read anything, it might just look good (palindromic plates can be nice) but if it's just some generically different thing, like the thousands of Irish plates starting Ixx, you could be sitting on that for a while.
You could also sell it yourself - get a couple of valuations, take a mean average and stick it on Egay, you've probably got just as good a chance of flogging it that way. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Been there done this. I inherited a car with a private plate. The valuation sites will add it to their listings promising
you huge monies for it but will want a large cut from the proceeds if anyone is daft enough to pay it. To give you
an idea I had P215 DAL on an old Golf of mine valued at 800 odd quid, and that was over a decade ago. Back to the car I
inherited, it was actually a 57 plate but the private plate was an 02 reg so I wasn't keen that it looked older than it was
when it came to time to sell it. You can surrender a private reg back to DVLA (who will add it to their listings again)
for nil pounds if you just want the original number back. If that had been allocated elsewhere you'll get a rendom generic
plate to suit the year of registration. You just have to write to them.
https://www.gov.uk/personalised-vehicle-registration-numbers/give-up-private-number ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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grr666 wrote: | Been there done this. I inherited a car with a private plate. The valuation sites will add it to their listings promising
you huge monies for it but will want a large cut from the proceeds if anyone is daft enough to pay it. To give you
an idea I had P215 DAL on an old Golf of mine valued at 800 odd quid, and that was over a decade ago. Back to the car I
inherited, it was actually a 57 plate but the private plate was an 02 reg so I wasn't keen that it looked older than it was
when it came to time to sell it. You can surrender a private reg back to DVLA (who will add it to their listings again)
for nil pounds if you just want the original number back. If that had been allocated elsewhere you'll get a rendom generic
plate to suit the year of registration. You just have to write to them.
https://www.gov.uk/personalised-vehicle-registration-numbers/give-up-private-number |
I must be disleksick.
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DAL = Dagenham speak for anyone called Darren.
Reg plates containing DAV are usually disproportionately expensive too, sisters ex hubby was a Dave and his plate
cost her a packet despite being quite ordinary except for the DAV bit. I've sold a car with a private plate on. It was
car specific so not much point hanging onto it, bought for bottom money from DOOVLA (250) I just let it go with the car
rather than spend a third of that sum retaining it in the hope I could sell it. I still like short reg numbers the best. The wifes
is a 5 digit one. It's annoying as one of my initials is an I. So I can't get my initials as there's no such thing. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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grr666 wrote: | DAL = Dagenham speak for anyone called Darren.
Reg plates containing DAV are usually disproportionately expensive too, sisters ex hubby was a Dave and his plate
cost her a packet despite being quite ordinary except for the DAV bit. I've sold a car with a private plate on. It was
car specific so not much point hanging onto it, bought for bottom money from DOOVLA (250) I just let it go with the car
rather than spend a third of that sum retaining it in the hope I could sell it. I still like short reg numbers the best. The wifes
is a 5 digit one. It's annoying as one of my initials is an I. So I can't get my initials as there's no such thing. |
I got a private plate for one bike. (Dvlarsehole 250 bangers.)
It's not a problem to swap if everything is in order but I got a wee bit of Proctalgia Fugax a few years ago when I traded one big for another. The mot and tax expired on the traded bike by the time I was registering the transfer. The Tobacco Hagg at DVLArsehole refused to swap over as the donor bike was not MoT'd
Cunts.... I told her I'd sold it the week before the tax expired and it was legal then.
Of course the mot was due too.
I had to call the dealer, they let me take the hoowur and mot the bastirt and then sorn it.
The DVLArsehole did the swap.
Win win for the dealer.
I got a plate sort of personal. My mates wife got him one with a movie theme. ____________________ Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN. |
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Thanks for input folks.
The plate ends in AUD, i think the lady who owned it previous may have been an Audrey, suppose we will find out when the logbook comes through.
So basically i'm looking for an Audrey or an audi driver that might want it, she's been looking at a plate to suit us so i dunno, suppose if we could get the same as a new plate would cost that would suit her.
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My lovely next door neighbour is called Audrey. It's her 90th this year. True story. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Old Thread Alert!
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