Selling a private plate

[tylerdurden]

what would be the best way to sell a private plate? Currently on a retention certificate.

Its nothing special but was bought from DVLA for a few hundred quid.

TIA

 

[MOCAŠ]

Er, privately?

You could try eBay, which has a section devoted to private plates.

Autocar and the motoring sections of the weekend broadsheets also have a good target audience, but it may be difficult to justify the advertising fees if the plate's not worth much.

 

[A-AvantGarde]

You could always try on here too

As you've got more than 30 posts you should be able to post a classified ad.

It's also worth trying some of the number plate dealers, they generally all work on a commision basis. Some do buy 'desirable' numbers for stock but in most cases will sell your plate and handle the transfer.

It may be worth trying some of these, they all offer a valuation service:

Registration Transfers
Elite Registrations
National Numbers

Don't get carried away with their valuations, it can take a lot of time to sell.

For a quick sale, depending upon what it may mean try here with a reasonable price or ebay. If you don't mind waiting a couple of years (it's taken me that long before with one of the dealers above) you may get a higher price.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

ebay worked for me. Don't be disheartened if it takes a while to sell though.

 

[s88]

what would be the best way to sell a private plate? Currently on a retention certificate.

Its nothing special but was bought from DVLA for a few hundred quid.

TIA

Is it really private then? ( sorry it is, but obviously not personal)

I intend to keep mine forever and pass them to the sons.
( and they can sell them) as they dont have the same initials!!

 

[219]

Depending on what the plate is - if car related , like a lot of the Irish MBZ plates popular with some Merc drivers or related in some other way to a particular make or model then an owners club or car dealer might be worth trying . If the letters on the plate do happen to relate to a business or organisation , you can approach them to see if they're interested .

If based on someone's initials ( unless the initials also happen to represent a business or organisation , worth a Google search , then it is more random and the agencies or a classified ad in some of the Quality newspapers might be the best bet ) .

These days I look on eBay with some distrust due to the large numbers of shady characters using the site and no longer use their services myself .

 

[The G.F.P]

would CSV 212 be worth anything or even sell on ebay

does my car need to be taxed & mot'd before i can sell the plate

 

[ca-uk]

i'd buy a plate like csv 212 - i always like them when they don't mean anything about me/to me!

 

[dinoy]

considering 1 csv on offer for a mere £17500, i would suggest yours is worth around 1-2k tops, and the car needs to be moted u may get away without taxing it if it declared sorn they may allow u to transfer it to another car.

the best way i found is through regtransfers and when ebay has free listing days, or have an auction starting at 99p and some friends giving u a helping hand;-)

 

[EDZ649]

considering 1 csv on offer for a mere £17500, i would suggest yours is worth around 1-2k tops, and the car needs to be moted u may get away without taxing it if it declared sorn they may allow u to transfer it to another car.

the best way i found is through regtransfers and when ebay has free listing days, or have an auction starting at 99p and some friends giving u a helping hand;-)

Registration Transfers will only offer you about half what its actually worth. The list it on their site, wait until they get an enquiry for it and then make you a silly offer.

I would sell it privately, and include all the DVLA fees in you price as people get put off if they see a plate for a 'bargain' price and then have to add the fees on top. £25 currently for change of nominee on the retention document.

 

[rees_A]

would CSV 212 be worth anything or even sell on ebay

does my car need to be taxed & mot'd before i can sell the plate

I'll take the plate off your hands for £100 if you want to get rid. It'll look ok on my car.

 

[Branko]

I have 974 TKN spare if anyone fancies it? On Regtransfers.

 

[219]

would CSV 212 be worth anything or even sell on ebay

does my car need to be taxed & mot'd before i can sell the plate

Aren't the 'xSV' numbers ones that are issued by DVLA to 'salvaged vehicles' and others that have had pre-suffix numbers sold off ?

I always understood they were non transferable .

 

[alexmoon]

I have MB A00. What do you think it's worth?

 

[rees_A]

i have 974 tkn spare if anyone fancies it? On regtransfers.

£50?:d

 

[NormanC]

I have MB A00. What do you think it's worth?

Isn't it nothing because no such number plate can exist? If it's M8 AOO it'd probably be worth a couple of hundred to Arthur Oliver Oldfield!!

 

[MOCAŠ]

Aren't the 'xSV' numbers ones that are issued by DVLA to 'salvaged vehicles' and others that have had pre-suffix numbers sold off ?

I always understood they were non transferable .

Close.

Cars that have their pre-suffix numbers transferred are assigned an unissued, dateless plate, which is indeed non-transferrable. These were almost always drawn from one of the more remote Scottish registration series, with a tell-tale S as the middle of the three letters. I have such a plate, NSL xxx on one of my cars, and they stick out like a sore thumb to those in the know. More recently, the DVLA have been making efforts to assign more authentic numbers to re-registered cars, and in some cases you can actually have the original registration restored to your car if it has subsequently fallen out of use.

Similarly, when you take a personal plate off a car nowadays, you tend to get reissued with the original plate, whereas the DVLA used to just issue a new age-related plate.

A salvaged car, on the other hand, would probably be issued with a Q plate, which is both non-transferrable and non-replaceable (if that's a word).

Must admit that I also wondered whether CSV 212 might be non-transferrable.

 

[219]

I have MB A00. What do you think it's worth?

Isn't it nothing because no such number plate can exist? If it's M8 AOO it'd probably be worth a couple of hundred to Arthur Oliver Oldfield!!

Max Bygraves had , perhaps still has , 'MB 1' for which Mercedes-Benz allegedly offered a blank cheque . The offer was reportedly declined .

I have also read that Val Doonican has 'VD 1' , but have not heard of anyone offering to buy that plate .

 

[MOCAŠ]

Max Bygraves had , perhaps still has , 'MB 1' for which Mercedes-Benz allegedly offered a blank cheque. The offer was reportedly declined.

He sold MB 1 some years ago, and it was bought by a lottery winner for his wife's car. 1 MB, on the other hand, is owned by Trimite Ltd, and has been on a white SLK230 for as long as I can remember.

I have also read that Val Doonican has 'VD 1' , but have not heard of anyone offering to buy that plate.

Believe it or not, someone parted with well over £30,000 for 1 VD at a DVLA sale in 2006. Also, just to prove that tampering with number plates is not a recent phenomemon, in the 1960s a case was brought against a guy from Leeds called Victor Zermanski, for making his plate VD 2 look like his initials VDZ.

 

[fazfram]

What do you think the value of this registration mark is?