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Post by johnc on Apr 6, 2021 13:32:23 GMT
I was just having a scroll through the last auction of DVLA numbers and was taken aback by how much some people will pay for a number plate. When you consider there is a buyer's premium to add and then VAT, a lot of people must have a lot of money! dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/auction/online.html |
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Post by Martin on Apr 6, 2021 13:49:51 GMT
Do you think at that level they are being bought as an investment? I mean 120 A rather than AA11 MSX....  |
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Post by Tim on Apr 6, 2021 14:17:13 GMT
I'm surprised BO55 HER only went for 4k.
I'm sure there are plenty of RR Spurt drivers who that's appeal to!
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 6, 2021 14:21:16 GMT
I did buy my plate at one of those auctions circa 2009/10, but it cost me in the hundreds of pounds, not the thousands!
My wife thinks it's naff, so I keep threatening to transfer it to her Fiat, on the principle that private licence plates are less naff when attached to cars which are either cheap or classics.
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Post by Alex on Apr 6, 2021 14:40:17 GMT
What struck me was when I had a little play on the government mot check website and found what should be pretty exclusive plates are pretty much all on Range Rover's of one kind or another and the most coveted, A1 shows as being on a 2007 Mini Cooper S.
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Post by johnc on Apr 6, 2021 14:49:02 GMT
When I was a boy, friends of ours had the number V8 which I think was on an old Ford Consul or something similar. They needed the money and sold the plate for £5,000 if my memory serves me correctly - that was just a bit less than my Mum and Dad had paid for their house, to put it into context. I see it now adorns an Aston Martin.
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Post by Martin on Apr 6, 2021 14:57:19 GMT
I did buy my plate at one of those auctions circa 2009/10, but it cost me in the hundreds of pounds, not the thousands! My wife thinks it's naff, so I keep threatening to transfer it to her Fiat, on the principle that private licence plates are less naff when attached to cars which are either cheap or classics. Then buy this for your car to take it to the next level....  |
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Post by garry on Apr 6, 2021 15:25:58 GMT
Do you think at that level they are being bought as an investment? I mean 120 A rather than AA11 MSX.... Are they really investments? I suspect it's a market that's nearly illiquid and that retail uplift is way ahead of trade-in value - a bit like the diamond market. Perhaps it works for the very rare registrations, but if you've just paid £2200 for "K45 HXO" then you're going to need lots of luck finding someone else who thinks "K45 HXO" means something to them and has more than £2200 floating around to pay for the privilege. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2021 15:48:01 GMT
This is the problem I have with loadsamoney being spent on these registrations. I can recall seeing page after page of adverts where they actually had to say what the registration was supposed to represent. If you have to go that far, where is the market? Surely other people on the road have to have some attachment/comprehension of the reg in order to sell it on?
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Post by michael on Apr 6, 2021 15:48:51 GMT
I had an offer for mine from a Porsche driver at a petrol station in Cheshire. I declined but he gave me his card anyway.
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Post by Martin on Apr 6, 2021 15:49:44 GMT
Do you think at that level they are being bought as an investment? I mean 120 A rather than AA11 MSX.... Are they really investments? I suspect it's a market that's nearly illiquid and that retail uplift is way ahead of trade-in value - a bit like the diamond market. Perhaps it works for the very rare registrations, but if you've just paid £2200 for "K45 HXO" then you're going to need lots of luck finding someone else who thinks "K45 HXO" means something to them and has more than £2200 floating around to pay for the privilege. I don't know, that's why I asked the question. K45 clearly wouldn't be, but 120 A could be seen as one. Maybe. |
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Post by Big Blue on Apr 6, 2021 16:15:04 GMT
I bought mine on the release day on May 1st 2001. I made it part of the divorce settlement that I retained it and it adorns the Gorilla.
I have to move it to retention at some point soon then plan what to keep it on when the Gorilla goes as that new C Class is looking nice. However I’m terrible at changing cars so I might still have it on the Gorilla next year....
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Post by LandieMark on Apr 6, 2021 17:04:34 GMT
I bought my MSL 3 plate at an auction for £4k. Sold it a few years later for £6k. The only ones I've bought since have been £250 DVLA direct ones. L300 MSL which was on the Defender - now on retention and V44 MSL which was on the TVR and now on the truck.
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 6, 2021 17:07:07 GMT
I can't imagine selling my plate in any hurry, but am pretty sure I'd at the very least get my money back.
Not so much from English people who share my surname (we are not many) but from various Arabic, Swahili, Indonesian and Tagalog speakers to whom it can be the anglicised spelling of various honorifics like "teacher", "boss", "leader" and "pilot".
If you think I'm kidding, I shall refer you to US immigrations who never ever miss an opportunity to haul me in for extra questions at Arrivals on account of having a suspiciously Islamic surname. Or the official at the check-in desk at a small airport in Kenya who looked at me, looked at my passport, looked at me again, looked at my passport again and then said with an air of great doubt "you English man, why do you have Swahili name?"
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Post by Boxer6 on Apr 6, 2021 19:13:26 GMT
I bought my MSL 3 plate at an auction for £4k. Sold it a few years later for £6k. The only ones I've bought since have been £250 DVLA direct ones. L300 MSL which was on the Defender - now on retention and V44 MSL which was on the TVR and now on the truck. My plate was one of the £250 ones from DVLA, though my daughter's cost about double that I think. No sure why mind, as they are both letter-2 digits-3letters. Herself's plate is 3 letters-1 digit, which she got for well under half its' original asking price on one of the reg-plate sites. Worth it for her, as it's her initials and favourite/lucky number, which seems fair enough. Mine is, I like to think, fairly meaningful, but won't look it to an onlooker who doesn't know me well, ditto for my daughters. |
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Post by ChrisM on Apr 6, 2021 20:15:17 GMT
I hope to be able to pass my plates on to my daughters. They're pretty meaningless to anyone outside the family who doesn't know the history of how we got the first of them.
I still have KA16AKA on retention, wonder if it would sell? Seems like the possibility of Ford selling a 1.6 litre KA in the UK is pretty remote now
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Post by Boxer6 on Apr 6, 2021 20:43:47 GMT
I hope to be able to pass my plates on to my daughters. They're pretty meaningless to anyone outside the family who doesn't know the history of how we got the first of them. I still have KA16AKA on retention, wonder if it would sell? Seems like the possibility of Ford selling a 1.6 litre KA in the UK is pretty remote now Don't think I'd buy a plate that referenced a particlar make or model of car; saying which, I was going to buy H6BXR for the Legacy, but I swithered for too long and it ended up on a Porsche I think.
Quick check shows it on a Boxster S, but I'm fairly sure it was on a 911 of some sort back then.
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Post by michael on Apr 6, 2021 20:55:59 GMT
The model specific plate thing amuses me as buying trends become quite clear. There are so many Range Rover Sports with X5 plates on as an example.
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Post by Boxer6 on Apr 6, 2021 21:51:16 GMT
The model specific plate thing amuses me as buying trends become quite clear. There are so many Range Rover Sports with X5 plates on as an example. Exactly! I think that's one of the main ressons I wouldn't buy one. |
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Post by Alex on Apr 7, 2021 6:04:56 GMT
The model specific plate thing amuses me as buying trends become quite clear. There are so many Range Rover Sports with X5 plates on as an example. Also a lot of V8 plates on models that have never had more than 4 cylinders. Although at least the plate V8 is on a 1988 Aston Vantage. |
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 7, 2021 9:36:32 GMT
Reminds me of the shiny new-looking 992 I saw the other day with a plate that started "DB11..."
Either a statement of intent or of past ownership...
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Post by Stuntman on Apr 7, 2021 21:50:42 GMT
My plates continue to give me pleasure which has far outweighed their monetary cost.
And I'm sure that I could sell them for more than I paid for them.
But I've had them 30 years, 21 years and 12 years respectively and I have never thought of them as investments.
They are purely vanity adornments for my cars, that I wanted to spend money on. I like owning them and that's good enough for me.
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Post by Tim on Apr 8, 2021 8:16:50 GMT
Is there a way of getting a plate that doesn't exist anymore?
I quite fancy the plate off my 1st Montego, it was just a normal C reg one.
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 8, 2021 8:45:36 GMT
My plates continue to give me pleasure which has far outweighed their monetary cost. And I'm sure that I could sell them for more than I paid for them. But I've had them 30 years, 21 years and 12 years respectively and I have never thought of them as investments. They are purely vanity adornments for my cars, that I wanted to spend money on. I like owning them and that's good enough for me. Agree 100%. Mine came about because nearly 20yrs ago I spotted the car of my cousin wearing the same plate with a "1" rather than mine which has an "11". Upon enquiring to the DVLA, I discovered that the "11" and "111" versions had never been issued, so I registered my interest in case they were ever submitted at a future auction by DVLA. I then forgot all about it and mercifully didn't change job, because circa 2009 I got an email (to my work email address) out of the blue noting that I'd previously expressed interest in the "11" plate which would be going up for auction in Yorkshire in two weeks' time with a £400 reserve. You could already bid on-line by that time, so I put in an on-line absentee bid and, being extremely busy with work, promptly forgot all about it again. Few weeks later I got an email from something like "smaleeds", which I nearly binned as spam before realising it was the email confirming I'd won the auction and the plate was mine. |
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