Real Good Number Plates : Vol 4
Discussion
MrReg said:
I'd like to think I had some idea of what I'm talking about, but others may disagree 
That plate is certainly not worth anything near to £20k. RegTransfers, like other dealers, will allow you to put whatever price you want on a registration, witness the infamous H15 LDN (a snip at £97k iirc) so just because a similar one is being advertised at a price doesn't instantly make yours worth that much. There won't be anyone enquiring about those numbers, the same as when someone asks a stupid price for one that we list - it simply stays on the website at that highly inflated unachievable price until they realise it's never going to get that price.
In my opinion you'd be lucky, very lucky, to achieve 5-10% of that price.
Either way, good luck with your sale.
Mr Reg, well said. That plate is certainly not worth anything near to £20k. RegTransfers, like other dealers, will allow you to put whatever price you want on a registration, witness the infamous H15 LDN (a snip at £97k iirc) so just because a similar one is being advertised at a price doesn't instantly make yours worth that much. There won't be anyone enquiring about those numbers, the same as when someone asks a stupid price for one that we list - it simply stays on the website at that highly inflated unachievable price until they realise it's never going to get that price.In my opinion you'd be lucky, very lucky, to achieve 5-10% of that price.
Either way, good luck with your sale.
There really isn't much of a likeness to Jason in either plate. The one owned by the poster being JAS 107N who assumes his plate MUST be worth a big sum based on JAS 101N being advertised on a leading plate website for £23.5k.
Of the two plates I would say JAS 101N is more of a likeness to Jason, but it is still a very poor likeness. I would say it is valued sub £1,000, so JAS107N which has even less of a likeness would be worth less than that still.
The important point I think is this: the price on a number plate website can be plucked out of the air and may not even have a connection to the owner's starting price.
Once I enquired with a company by email about a plate I own (the plate is dateless, of the NNN LLL variety) with a view to selling it. They didn't get back to me and days later I noticed it was advertised on their website at some stupid price far more than it was worth, listed as not being part of their stock but "available".
I asked them to remove it as I hadn't given them authority to sell it, and even if I did, it wasn't worth anywhere near that. I asked them what their game was advertising it at a silly price, because that could have harmed my chances of selling it in future.
I came to the conclusion after they explained to me that this was a toe-dipping exercise. They advertise them that way to weed out the 'chancers' in the hope that someone who is seriously interested will get in touch, who will then be told "it is owned by one of our customers, who we can contact for you if you wish" which then, they hope, will result in a sale at a price I'm agreeable to, minus their commission.
The idea being, that they are the middle man and the only way the person interested in the plate can buy it is through them, because the potential buyer doesn't know who I am, and I don't know who they are. So it's possible that even the owner of JAS 101N may be unaware that it is advertised for a stupid sum.
So, the moral of the story is, the £23.5 "price" advertised for what is a crappy plate, JAS 101N has no bearing on that plate's value, and has even less of a bearing on the value of the even crappier plate JAS 107N.
In my opinion - I'm going to give it even if nobody wants to hear it - JAS 107N is worth probably £700 tops.
It's not an 'investment' plate for any money...unless you're prepared to wait for a dyslexic parent seeking the 'perfect plate' for his son Jason's 17th birthday.
TVRJAS said:
Jagmanv12 said:
It doesn't look like Jason. Anybody who thinks it does needs to go to specsavers.
It could look like JASIO 1N????
I wouldn't pay the transfer fee even if the number was free.
Likewise if I saw the number plate JAG 1 because it has absolutely no concern.. It could be £500 and I don't want it,going on your login name you would.It could look like JASIO 1N????
I wouldn't pay the transfer fee even if the number was free.
So the 1,000 of people who have seen my number plate are all blind then... OK
If I had 100 people stand at look at the plate and see Jason but you can't... what does that say about you? I'll tell you.. you're the minority.
t!Number 5 said:
TVRJAS said:
Jagmanv12 said:
It doesn't look like Jason. Anybody who thinks it does needs to go to specsavers.
It could look like JASIO 1N????
I wouldn't pay the transfer fee even if the number was free.
Likewise if I saw the number plate JAG 1 because it has absolutely no concern.. It could be £500 and I don't want it,going on your login name you would.It could look like JASIO 1N????
I wouldn't pay the transfer fee even if the number was free.
So the 1,000 of people who have seen my number plate are all blind then... OK
If I had 100 people stand at look at the plate and see Jason but you can't... what does that say about you? I'll tell you.. you're the minority.
t!
V41LEY said:
Spotted on a yellow Gallardo today
V10 OMFG
So that's actually just V100 MFG that's been butchered by an owner with a lack of taste then V10 OMFG
v15ben said:
Finally, totally mis-spaced, but I liked it for a cricketer:
HOW 15 1T on an Audi A6 Avant.
Surely if it were to be anywhere close to what it's intended to be for a cricketer, then the plate would have to be HOW 15 4T, HOW 12 4T or much more preferably HOW 24T as last time I checked cricketers shout HOWZAT rather than HOW IS IT? when calling for an LBW HOW 15 1T on an Audi A6 Avant.
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Thursday 18th June 00:45
NOR 10N. All squashed onto one line on some sort of two-wheeled velocipede which I don't think was a Yamaha .
Also, RegTransfers do an auction that only costs £5 to enter. Our man can put up or shut up if he wants to know the real value of his "£23k" plate. If it goes for more than £20k, I'll even refund him the fiver
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.Also, RegTransfers do an auction that only costs £5 to enter. Our man can put up or shut up if he wants to know the real value of his "£23k" plate. If it goes for more than £20k, I'll even refund him the fiver
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