Dvla auction, missed out on a goldmine!

albionrovers

I got M* GVR for £250 and my name is Martin Glover. Agree, prices are far far too high.

rdwarr

TrickyWicky wrote: »

I think number plates are far too over rated.

I agree - it's almost like everybody has one on their car these days.

Seriously, some of them are collectable in the same way as other things with no intrinsic value like Penny Blacks or old comics. If people want to pay money for one then that's fine - it's unlikely to depreciate as fast as a car (if at all).

tescobabe69

A pal of mine has several private plates, his wife is driving around on " LIZ 1 ", I shudder to think of what that is worth.

TradePro

albionrovers wrote: »

I got M* GVR for £250 and my name is Martin Glover. Agree, prices are far far too high.

So everyone except your friends and family think you drive a 1994 car?

Joking aside, I truly think the vast majority (a handful are okay, but they are the minority) of these plates are utter cr*p, sorry.

StrongWork

Lum wrote: »

Problem is the Skyline R32 is too old to wear that plate. I guess someone might stick it on a Golf R32 though?

Agreed, it's not that exciting but you never know if you get two competing 'dubbers' to bid on it.

Hunterz1_2

true, people do buy private number plates with no meaning to it, and these and generally expensive, if you are gonna buy a numberplate at a nippy price, atleast get a decent one,

debbie_doo

hi,

does anyone know how you can get an existing private plate valuation please? I would like mine valued for curiosity but all I can find online are sites that want to charge you or assume you want to sell so they won't give you the figure until you agree to let them advertise your plate! Bit dodgy... any help/advise would be appreciated

owen_money

Lum wrote: »

I actually had a perfectly valid reason for wanting a personalised plate.

At the time I was using my own car for business purposes, it was 2006 and it was on a V plate (1999). the boss was getting a bit unhappy about this because the car was "old". I invited him to actually look at the car and tell me if it looked like a 7 year old banger. He agreed that it did not and after me poking him in the correct direction with some leading questions admitted that the only problem he had was the V reg.

£400 on a personalised plate later and I got to continue to use that car and avoided the need to buy or lease a newer one at my own expense.

lol, 7 years is an old banger, just in different clothes..............lol

owen_money

Lum wrote: »

well the CAR bit is a bit bland.. if it were something like R32 DUB it would probably go for silly money.

Only time I ever bid on one of these was after spending 2 years nagging to DVLA to issue it in the first place, PWN 3D.. Ended up going for 4 grand which was way more than I was prepared to pay.

lol, nagging DVLA for 2 years but in the end I didn't have any money

TradePro

debbie_doo wrote: »

hi,

does anyone know how you can get an existing private plate valuation please? I would like mine valued for curiosity but all I can find online are sites that want to charge you or assume you want to sell so they won't give you the figure until you agree to let them advertise your plate! Bit dodgy... any help/advise would be appreciated

Sorry to sound negative, but odds are it's worth nothing, most of them aren't anyway (I'm guessing it's not 'DD 1' or similar).

They are worth what someone is prepared to pay, not what the 'specialists' say they will advertise them for (they give out false hope, not sure why).