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Are you talking about ones from NI ?
Ok so the dvla website is the only website that does private registrations properly?
Other sites like newreg only lease the plate meaning buyer not owner of number plate?
What are the current fees associated with private number plates?
They are not leased to you. It means the registered owner or the nominee can put it on their car.
I sold one of my plates ages ago (was on a retension certificate) and they failed to put it on the car within the year. I got the letter from the DVLA stating the certificate was about to run out)
If you buy a £250 plate from DVLA that includes all fees. All you need then are numberplates made up.
All answers can be found on their site
I have VAN580Y now on a retention certificate, as an 'investment'. Plus several others.
Originally I considered it appropriate, almost part of the livery, on my van, when I sold commercial vehicles.
Its now worth whatever anyone may see it's value, a few pennies or a few thousand pounds. Just depends on the person that would like it. Same as all the other numbers out there.
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Yes - Norn Iron plates have no year indicator numbers and can be put on any age of car in the UK.
They currently have three letters (one of which is an I or a Z followed by 4 numbers.
Loads on e-bay stating at £20.
Not many native ethnic Brits have a name that begins with a Z of course, but there are loads of plates in various combinations with an I in them.
Several small-time private sellers who have a half a dozen mopeds in the shed make a little hobby of it.
Here's one just as an example if anyone is interested:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?item=121561364766&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_ssn=duncanjoes&_sop=15
Plates with several zeros or repeated digits cost more of course.
I have no connection with any of the NI sellers - other than as a satisfied customer.
That's amazing! I never thought you would get them so cheap.
Here's mine. Audi S6, V10 engine and my initials.
If you actually paid the £500,000 I last saw PEN 15 offered for, and someone objected to seeing it as they thought that PEN 15 spelled a rude word, or you were changing the spacing to make it do so, then that number can be withdrawn, and I doubt if you will get the money back.
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Quite right - no-one owns any number- no matter how much they pay.
What you have is the right to display it legally.
I have no idea how many (if any) have ever been withdrawn for re-arranged spacing.
It's more likely that the matter is dealt with by a police warning and theoffender told to get new plates with the correct spacing.