Looking to buy a plate - SA51 PNK
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The plate's desirable to no one but the OP and the owner. If the OP feels strongly enough to speculatively post on a forum, you'd expect his offer would be above the value. The owner would expect that, so why should he be looking to get rid of his plate for market rate? Where that balances out is between them, it's a mismatch of expectations = no deal. OP will have to find another crap plate that is affordable but more meaningless.
Well Nick and I talked last night - proof sent that it's on his 'Landie so all fair there.
I made an offer but we were obviously thinking different things. I guess it's like houses in some respects - it's only worth what someone is willing to pay.
Anyway, good luck to Nick if he chooses to sell it elsewhere. If not, I'm happy to discuss again.
I'm genuinely amazed that posting on here would net a result like this even if we couldn't clinch a deal.
Thanks to all the watchers and in particulat LaurasOtherHalf for reminding me the post had been updated!
I made an offer but we were obviously thinking different things. I guess it's like houses in some respects - it's only worth what someone is willing to pay.
Anyway, good luck to Nick if he chooses to sell it elsewhere. If not, I'm happy to discuss again.
I'm genuinely amazed that posting on here would net a result like this even if we couldn't clinch a deal.
Thanks to all the watchers and in particulat LaurasOtherHalf for reminding me the post had been updated!
The owner of the plate should put it on ebay and let the highest bidder win. Could even put a reserve price of what the OP has offered.
IMHO, if you have been offered £300 or more I would take it. £80 to transfer it and a £20 insurance admin fee leaves you with £200 for a plate that means absolutely nothing to you.
IMHO, if you have been offered £300 or more I would take it. £80 to transfer it and a £20 insurance admin fee leaves you with £200 for a plate that means absolutely nothing to you.
. sandman77 said:
The owner of the plate should put it on ebay and let the highest bidder win. Could even put a reserve price of what the OP has offered.
IMHO, if you have been offered £300 or more I would take it. £80 to transfer it and a £20 insurance admin fee leaves you with £200 for a plate that means absolutely nothing to you.
As much as I like a happy ending, if someone offered me £300 for a random plate I simply couldn't be arsed to transfer it. IMHO, if you have been offered £300 or more I would take it. £80 to transfer it and a £20 insurance admin fee leaves you with £200 for a plate that means absolutely nothing to you.
HQ2 said:
As much as I like a happy ending, if someone offered me £300 for a random plate I simply couldn't be arsed to transfer it.
^ThisPersonally I've never had a private plate, so have no idea what is involved to transfer plate to new owner and get a replacement for my vehicle.
So I would guess it is going to be a ball-ache of trying to contact DVLA, fill in loads of forms, have to wait for new V5 before i can use my car, phone insurance company etc etc... This is probably not the reality, but it is my expectation, so i would be thinking that I would want a lot more than £300 for all that hassle and effort.
Seemed like fate that the buyer and the plate matched up and such a shame that they cant agree on price.
Buyer cant get it for nothing and the seller wont be able to retire on it, it has to be worth the messing about for the seller, it doesn't mean that the plate is hot property and thousands will get into a bidding war.
For me, worth the messing about would need to be 300 on top of the costs to change.
Buyer cant get it for nothing and the seller wont be able to retire on it, it has to be worth the messing about for the seller, it doesn't mean that the plate is hot property and thousands will get into a bidding war.
For me, worth the messing about would need to be 300 on top of the costs to change.
Oh go on, tell us what he's after for it!
On a slightly unrelated note, I had an email out of the blue from someone a bought some Recaro Spg's from a couple of years back asking if I still had them & if I did would I consider selling them back? Well, they're still sat in the bubble wrap in a spare room so I simply told him to find out what I paid him (I couldn't remember) and he could have them for the same.
Texted me today with a screenshot of the amount and fair enough I'll sell them to him for that. Sure I could have bent him over for a couple of hundred more, but then I'm not using them and I'm not a t
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On a slightly unrelated note, I had an email out of the blue from someone a bought some Recaro Spg's from a couple of years back asking if I still had them & if I did would I consider selling them back? Well, they're still sat in the bubble wrap in a spare room so I simply told him to find out what I paid him (I couldn't remember) and he could have them for the same.
Texted me today with a screenshot of the amount and fair enough I'll sell them to him for that. Sure I could have bent him over for a couple of hundred more, but then I'm not using them and I'm not a t
t sandman77 said:
IMHO, if you have been offered £300 or more I would take it. £80 to transfer it and a £20 insurance admin fee leaves you with £200 for a plate that means absolutely nothing to you.
My thoughts exactly, this njw1066 character sounds like a bigger knob end than the guy who thought a change of plate would devalue his car Edited by LaurasOtherHalf on Wednesday 15th April 14:08
LaurasOtherHalf said:
sandman77 said:
IMHO, if you have been offered £300 or more I would take it. £80 to transfer it and a £20 insurance admin fee leaves you with £200 for a plate that means absolutely nothing to you.
My thoughts exactly, this njw1066 character sounds like a bigger knob end than the guy who thought a change of plate would devalue his car 
andyps said:
LaurasOtherHalf said:
sandman77 said:
IMHO, if you have been offered £300 or more I would take it. £80 to transfer it and a £20 insurance admin fee leaves you with £200 for a plate that means absolutely nothing to you.
My thoughts exactly, this njw1066 character sounds like a bigger knob end than the guy who thought a change of plate would devalue his car LaurasOtherHalf said:
andyps said:
LaurasOtherHalf said:
sandman77 said:
IMHO, if you have been offered £300 or more I would take it. £80 to transfer it and a £20 insurance admin fee leaves you with £200 for a plate that means absolutely nothing to you.
My thoughts exactly, this njw1066 character sounds like a bigger knob end than the guy who thought a change of plate would devalue his car How did you find the owner of the plate?
njw1066 said:
hornetrider said:
No need for that at all.
Thanks for your support. I was not being unreasonable, just don't want to 'give it away' when we may keep the reg and transfer to our next suitable vehicle. I hope others can appreciate that.I agree on value of plate being circa £250+, I'd then expect buyer to pay fees so £80 DVLA and £20 insurance. Plus £20 for the cost of a set of new numberplates for the newly assigned number.
The Freelancer would automatically be assigned a new plate for FREE (so no costs to buying a new one).
It's easy to transfer a plate, fill in a form and send it off. Then get new plates made.
Agree probably worth adding an extra £150 for the hassle.
So circa £520.
The Freelancer would automatically be assigned a new plate for FREE (so no costs to buying a new one).
It's easy to transfer a plate, fill in a form and send it off. Then get new plates made.
Agree probably worth adding an extra £150 for the hassle.
So circa £520.
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