Someone is selling my private plate!!

[jdwoodbury]

I was just browsing a well known private plate company and I noticed my current plate was up for sale! Is this normal practise to drum up business, it seems you could pay for it on-line there and then. Clearly they have no title to the plate, is this not deceiving a potential buyer?

[GC8]

Have you ever let them 'value' it?

[Soovy]

Er yes!

[Original Poster]

Ring them and ask to buy it.

[Highrisedrifter]

Original Poster said:

Ring them and ask to buy it.

Good idea.

And then let us know how you get on.

[hornetrider]

Bookmarking this one

[Perd Hapley]

Get a friend to buy it and then kick up a stink when it's not available. You might get a free branded Parker pen out of it.

[DoubleSix]

Original Poster said:

Ring them and ask to buy it.

[vpr]

And tell them you really need it and prepared to pay silly money for it.

[JagJag363]

Hopefully it's not the one i am about to buy haha

[tjob]

I called up about my own plate once. I said I was interested and made a good 'offer', they said they needed to contact the 'owner'...Cool, waited a few hours and Boom, got a phone call from someone saying they had a buyer for my plate...how they got my number I'm not sure

It was advertised at 6K, i offered to 'buy' it for 5k, to be told I'd got an offer of 3.5.....

Funny when I explained and told him to stop advertising my plate!

[hornetrider]

tjob said:

I called up about my own plate once. I said I was interested and made a good 'offer', they said they needed to contact the 'owner'...Cool, waited a few hours and Boom, got a phone call from someone saying they had a buyer for my plate...how they got my number I'm not sure

It was advertised at 6K, i offered to 'buy' it for 5k, to be told I'd got an offer of 3.5.....

Funny when I explained and told him to stop advertising my plate!

Busted!

[SpecB]

I took mine off the market and it was still on the site for ages. I had more enquiries about it when it wasn't on the market to be honest.

[WeirdNeville]

I got an enthusiastic email about a plate I'd had valued. Sadly, this was some 6 years after I'd owned either plate or car - and when I'd intially enquired they'd wanted me to put it straight on retention for a quick sale, at £80 a year. For a plate worth no more than a grand to the right buyer. (Mr L44MA J?)

The whole business is a sham. I don't understand why anyone bothers with "private plates".

[Du1point8]

Are they simply advertising it and then if someone comes forward they will contact you to buy it off you to sell?

(not that this is a good business model of course)

[Lord_Howit_Hertz]

Spotted the same thing recently, my reg appeared in the telegraph and they wanted 10k for it, 3 letters and 2 numbers, haha I paid 1/10th of that over ten years ago.

I will await my phone call saying someone wants to buy my reg for 5k

[soad]

Du1point8 said:

Are they simply advertising it and then if someone comes forward they will contact you to buy it off you to sell?

(not that this is a good business model of course)

Looks that way. One way to drum up some business.

[jdwoodbury]

Soovy said:

Er yes!

Er No!

[jdwoodbury]

tjob said:

I called up about my own plate once. I said I was interested and made a good 'offer', they said they needed to contact the 'owner'...Cool, waited a few hours and Boom, got a phone call from someone saying they had a buyer for my plate...how they got my number I'm not sure

It was advertised at 6K, i offered to 'buy' it for 5k, to be told I'd got an offer of 3.5.....

Funny when I explained and told him to stop advertising my plate!

I am going to try this but have no idea how they will get hold of me

[jdwoodbury]

Holy crap, I went to put in offer and it was automatically accepted, next page was to enter my card details!

I think i will need to give them a call