Do these plates really make the money asked?

Do these plates really make the money asked?

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P50

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1,034 posts

165 months

Wednesday 8th August 2012
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Just typed in 1 under search and X1 is up for £1M.

https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/main/secureordering...

IT1 and KP1 are up for 350K each.

8A is 175K

My plate would be PO1 and that's up for 200K!!

Do people really pay this sort of money for these plates or is it purely hype? I know prices have moved but it would take some balls to lay out 500 grand for a plate..

I have some personal plates on some of my machines and I consider them good value! 2PEL, PBO17 and 21CUM!

CraigMST

9,080 posts

167 months

Wednesday 8th August 2012
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I think KP 1 is just waiting for a muppet like Katie Price to buy it. Hence the price. No one in their right mind would pay that much for a reg. A1 was £500k wasn't it?

Lordglenmorangie

3,057 posts

207 months

Wednesday 8th August 2012
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I know someone who has RON 1 on his plate what is that worth ?

bqf

2,233 posts

173 months

Wednesday 8th August 2012
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I just paid £600 for SFA 2T and it made my eyes water

FLASHG1981

101 posts

145 months

Wednesday 8th August 2012
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The DVLA auction prices are the value. Very few sale from these sort of companies at top prices.

J4CKO

41,764 posts

202 months

Wednesday 8th August 2012
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The cherished number business gets a lot of chasers, the kind of people that buy a two hundred quid dvla special and then advertise it for twenty grand because it say yo blud or something if creatively spaced.

Am selling MU 31 if anyone's interested, on behalf of my father in law, up at eight grand but has been for ages, don't think it is worth that and that is a fairly good plate, he doesn't want to lower it, so that is up to him, not hat bothered about selling it, I reckon five to six grand.

danjama

5,728 posts

144 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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Today I followed a Golf R32 with the number plater 'R30 Two'. I was very impressed, and it lives near me. All the time was wondering what it's worth.

james280779

1,931 posts

231 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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I have Carrera on my porsche 911, unfortunately I am not in the UK and I paid $142 for it.

I am also getting esprit for..... you guessed it. Prices now risen to $145 - thieving b*stards

CooperS

4,509 posts

221 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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There are plenty here in edinburgh, yesterday saw a DB9 with 07 on it nothing more.... Very nice but I reckon that must of cost him not much at all or the complete opposite

toon10

6,239 posts

159 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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X1 used to be on an old white Mk2 Fiesta van around the Ponteland area in Newcastle. going back many years when I last saw it, the van must have been worth about £200.

I was told that an old army major who was retiring bought up a load of X plates as a gift to his staff. The guy that got X1 was up first (he was the chef) and claimed it.

This is all based on "my mate down the pub" stories but I thought it was interesting. Didn't realise the plate was still around and certainly not up for that kind of money.

CRA1G

6,594 posts

197 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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There's a chap in the village were I live that's got "X2" which he's owned for many many years it's on a Red Audi A3
Wonder that that's worth.?scratchchin

toon10

6,239 posts

159 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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CRA1G said:
There's a chap in the village were I live that's got "X2" which he's owned for many many years it's on a Red Audi A3
Wonder that that's worth.?scratchchin
You should ask him if the old retired army major story is true, I've always wondered!

MrReg

1,931 posts

224 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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Come on Craig you should know that!?!

Yes the high end plates do fetch decent money like that.

A1 isn't available for sale and would certainly be far north of £500k.

However, that isn't the ultimate plate. With the olympics on and London being popular at the moment there is a plate which I'd love to get hold of that everybody seems to want right now. Steve Redgrave, Mo Farah, David Beckham etc have all been after a certain plate. wink

P50

Original Poster:

1,034 posts

165 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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Hmm? I'm of the opinion you could low ball uber heavily on the BIG prices and the sellers would rip your hand/arm/head clean off!!

I think it's hype. Up to ten grand I think is where all the action is. But a plate like X1 at a mil??

I just aint seeing it..

Foot note. There's a Cayenne near me with D1 on it. Must be worth a lot more than X1.... who's called Mr X?!!!

KrazyIvan

4,341 posts

177 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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MrReg said:
Come on Craig you should know that!?!

Yes the high end plates do fetch decent money like that.

A1 isn't available for sale and would certainly be far north of £500k.

However, that isn't the ultimate plate. With the olympics on and London being popular at the moment there is a plate which I'd love to get hold of that everybody seems to want right now. Steve Redgrave, Mo Farah, David Beckham etc have all been after a certain plate. wink
Dont tell me

T 34 MGB (TEAM GB)

Fun Bus

17,911 posts

220 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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Nope, it's better than that.

CRA1G

6,594 posts

197 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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"2X" sold for £44K + VAT etc so £56K in a DVLA sale in 2009 so "X2" must be worth £65/70K ? But as a pair £150K....?

MrReg

1,931 posts

224 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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If you could get X2 at that I'd have 4/5 buyers snap your hand off for it. The cheapest single single is around £90k iirc, then they jump up to £125k ish. Yes they do sell for that price - we've had offers of over £100k on a few plates in the past six months rejected as they don't meet the sellers requirements.

There was a single number 1 that sold recently for north of £500k. It happens.

ETA: The pair thing doesn't normally work. I don't think we've ever sold something high value which are the perfect pair. We've currently got two great three letter number ones which mirror each other, like ABC 1 and 1 ABC, but you'd sell them at a discount for the pair whereas selling separately would maximise the return.

Edited by MrReg on Thursday 9th August 09:29

Oilchange

8,525 posts

262 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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60LD ?

KrazyIvan said:
Dont tell me

T 34 MGB (TEAM GB)

MuffDaddy

1,422 posts

207 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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CRA1G said:
stuff
CRA1G, did I see your plate on a white 6 series?