Looking to buy a plate - SA51 PNK
Discussion
As it says, I'm looking to buy the above plate, assuming we are realistic on prices. It's the missus's birthday in a few months and this would make her giggle.
I've looked on the usual plate sites but nothing shows so I assume it's on a car already and I've little chance of finding it myself so if any eagle eyed readers spot it / know where it is, please send your answer to the usual address on a postcard or the back of a sealed down envelope (I guess you need to be over a certain age to remember that).
thanks all
I've looked on the usual plate sites but nothing shows so I assume it's on a car already and I've little chance of finding it myself so if any eagle eyed readers spot it / know where it is, please send your answer to the usual address on a postcard or the back of a sealed down envelope (I guess you need to be over a certain age to remember that).
thanks all
Cheers Zollar, impressively quick response!
I was hoping that by now it might have been on a scrapper. I take it there's no way of getting an address from DVLA etc. Did it show which county it was in wherever you found that?
We're in Lancashire so it'd be just my luck it's in the Highlands or Cornwall.
Plates one letter removed are in the £250 mark so it's more than likely nothing special to the Freelander owner.
I was hoping that by now it might have been on a scrapper. I take it there's no way of getting an address from DVLA etc. Did it show which county it was in wherever you found that?
We're in Lancashire so it'd be just my luck it's in the Highlands or Cornwall.
Plates one letter removed are in the £250 mark so it's more than likely nothing special to the Freelander owner.
A note on the window seems as likely as a snowball.
No offence taken. There are some hideous plates out there I agree. To be honest this plate won't mean anything to anyone other than me, the other half and a few friends and as it's not a truncated number wouldn't look like a private plate to the rest of the world. It's not that I was trying to put it on a PiNK car, just a normal everyday red one.
Regards pricing, SA51 PAK and PEK are both £250. As it's meaningless to most and doens't spell a common word it's less desireable and hence less expensive. I assume that's what you meant on pricing?
No offence taken. There are some hideous plates out there I agree. To be honest this plate won't mean anything to anyone other than me, the other half and a few friends and as it's not a truncated number wouldn't look like a private plate to the rest of the world. It's not that I was trying to put it on a PiNK car, just a normal everyday red one.
Regards pricing, SA51 PAK and PEK are both £250. As it's meaningless to most and doens't spell a common word it's less desireable and hence less expensive. I assume that's what you meant on pricing?
Edited by new666uk on Wednesday 7th January 16:34
Strawman said:
The only way to get the DVLA to disclose an owners address is to pretend to be a company that is trying to chase down a parking fine. They might offer to pass on a private request for you, but I've never heard of that working. Is it the Sassy part you want or the PNK? You'd be better off looking for plates already for sale IMO.
Not looking to get into dodgy ground impersonating or otherwise socially engineering the answer. It was an extremely slim chance that a PH'er might own have seen it but if you don't ask you don't get.Both parts that are needed for it to work or I'd just get another SA51 plate. I'm taking a slight liberty at that as it should be 'Sazzy'.
Thanks anyway fella's appreciate the effort and thoughts. She's just have to make do with some Thorntons and a bouquet instead.
Shaoxter said:
new666uk said:
Regards pricing, SA51 PAK and PEK are both £250. As it's meaningless to most and doens't spell a common word it's less desireable and hence less expensive. I assume that's what you meant on pricing?
PAK could be considered borderline racist. PEK doesn't mean anything. PNK is pretty close to pink which is a colour so I guess it would be more desirable.As mentioned, if it's just the PNK you're after check out alternatives on the DVLA or plate seller websites.
I've tried finding some plates which mean something to me but are on sheddy cars and probably don't mean anything to the owners, not had any luck so far.
Edit:
Turns out you're after Sazzy... in that case keep a look out in 2021 for SA21 PNK
Edited by Shaoxter on Wednesday 7th January 17:07
Genuinely sounds like I'm going to have to rethink the whole plate idea for her unless someone has a Delorean I can borrow. Promise I'll not put more than 30 years on the clock
RobinBanks said:
KTF said:
Why dont you contact one of these places that knock up the fake 'show' plates and give her them instead?
Example: http://www.myshowplates.com/
It's a bit rubbish if she can't actually put them on the car.Example: http://www.myshowplates.com/
njw1066 said:
Hi, I promise - It is on my Freelander Sarah
Hi NickOk, I'll bite. Despite being a dyed in the wool cynic about things being too good to be true I'm trying to look on the positive side here.
So, email me a pic of car and plate and what value you're thinking of and we'll go from there.
cheers
Paul
Edited by new666uk on Wednesday 15th April 11:23
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!
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Foster85 said:
And in any event, the OP doesn't seem to be half as bothered as a few posters about the situation!
Amazed this is still rumbling on. Plenty of folks are very good at spending other people money - £1000 being the highest 'estimate' I've seen for this so far.Quick summary of the facts:
1 Cosmic forces aligned to enable a prospective buyer and seller to contact each other.
2 Offer made by buyer and rejected.
3 No counter offer from seller (which I was surprised at but respect Nicks choice).
4 World + dog gets involved. Kim Kardashian apparently curious to know why the internet is now not watching her and all on here instead.
5 Another offer has been made on here (£500 iirc).
6 Ball in sellers court whether to keep or sell.
If we're all honest I reckon most people would recognise it's got no real value to anyone other than me and Nick. My missus has the original '08 factory plates on her car, this was just a bit of fun for her birthday that I'd punt a bit of cash on, not an attempt to 'rejuvenate' an older car.
If anyone thinks the plate is going for a grand they need to take a train to Reality Square - I could buy the 'Landie for that too.
Nope - wasn't me unfortunately although I wish it was, now I'm going to have to book a cruise or something for her birthday.
Someone else obviously wanted this plate too so that's that as far as I'm concerned.
I'd have negotiated if Nick came back with something after my initial offer but essentially I looked at this as it's a nigh on valueless plate to most people whatever he gets for it is a cash bonus he'd never otherwise realise.
I look at it as easy come easy go - not that emotionally invested in it, it was just a bit of fun. If Nick's got a better offer then fine, no harm done and no grudge held.
Someone else obviously wanted this plate too so that's that as far as I'm concerned.
I'd have negotiated if Nick came back with something after my initial offer but essentially I looked at this as it's a nigh on valueless plate to most people whatever he gets for it is a cash bonus he'd never otherwise realise.
I look at it as easy come easy go - not that emotionally invested in it, it was just a bit of fun. If Nick's got a better offer then fine, no harm done and no grudge held.
Calza said:
Did you ever post up the rejected offer, or is that in secrecy too?
No I didn't. The seller seemed to want to keep it quiet so I'll respect that. Unlike any negotiation I've ever done professionally or personally, the seller didn't reject my offer with a counter-offer, just a flat but polite 'No'. I was expecting to haggle a bit to establish where our respective perspectives were but seems like he was after one time offers only.
R11ysf said:
Or he thought your offer was derisory. When I've had cars for sale in the past advertised if I got an offer of 80% of the value I would respond to the inquiry saying it wasn't enough in hope of establishing a bid/offer haggle. When people offered 50% I didn't even bother replying. I'm guessing if the vendor wasn't even tempted to ask you to up your offer then it was one of the latter group.
Well my initial offer was £200 and I fully expected to haggle and would have gone to around £400. Bear in mind aside from the £80 DVLA fee there's ~£300 for a minor amount of effort and it's £££ he'd never have had in the first place until I kicked this all off.I didn't come into this with my rose tints on expecting a gushing response from the seller and steal a valuable asset from him. I still maintain the plate isn't worth all that much and selling it would probably net a quarter to a third of the value the Freelander is worth.
Long story short, seller has accepted another offer apparently so that's the end of the story.
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