RE: E Plate Sale
Thursday 26th August 2004
E Plate Sale
DVLA dump 200,000 plates on the market
The DVLA are to flog off over 200,000 'E' registrations from 1987.
The 1 to 20 number range of ‘E’ series registrations, which was withdrawn from their original issue in 1987, will go on sale through the DVLA’s Personalised Registrations hotline.
The entire range of potential registrations, which feature the E prefix letter, a number from 1 to 20 and any three letter combination except I,Q and Z (subject to availability), can be viewed on their website. Prices start at a fully inclusive £599 and registrations can be bought by calling the DVLA from 6th October.
Link : www.dvlaregistrations.co.uk
Discussion
Graham said:
Typical government body. issue a press release and the website doesnt accept E yet <LOL>
The reason the website doesn't accept the E yet is because the annoucement has not been officially released yet. We (DVLA staff) were only told about it on friday, it will be made 'official' on wednesday.
Registration marks will start at £599.
No sign yet of when the F prefix will be made available.
simpo two said:
Mr.Maven said:
We (DVLA staff) were only told about it on friday, it will be made 'official' on wednesday.
Wow, a DVLA person! Welcome to PH and a useful source of information.
But I wish I could make some plates up and sell them at £599 when I needed a bit of cash.
Thanks for the welcome - I actually work in the section who sell the personalised registration marks, so if you call up to buy one, there's a one-in-30 chance it'll be me you speak to
And if I can help here in any way, I'll do what I can. I'm actually limited as to what I can do as our department isn't actually the DVLA although we're in their building - we're an independant contractor called SERCO who sell them on the DVLA's behalf. We don't even have access to the DVLA intranet or phone system, so if we wanted to call another department, we'd need to call the number which you lot use
>> Edited by Mr.Maven on Tuesday 31st August 19:41
towman said:
Hi Mr Maven & Welcome. I guess you will shortly be "hit" with a million questions, so I`ll get mine in first! Will the E plates be sold online? Cheers
Steve
Hi Steve
No, all all sales of personalised registration marks are done over the phone because you need to agree to a verbal contract (all calls to us are recorded) and also, with the greatest of respect to everyone, a lot of people are unintentionally ignorant as to the way to go about the process, so we need to guide most people through what they need to do. That way we have them on tape agreeing they are aware of what they can do and cannot use the excuse of "they told me I could do it" or "I didn't read that bit of the small print" when they get prosecuted for for misrepresenting their registration mark.
By the way, if anyone wants me to run through the procedure on how to go about assigning a personalised registration to their vehicle, I'll be more than happy to explain it here
Rob_the_Sparky said:
What a waste of money...but each to their own
There are many ways to "waste" money.
Betting on the horses, buying a Rolex instead of a Timex. What about buying shares...seems to lose a lot of people a lot of money. Pensions? Same thing.
At least personal reg. numbers aren't necessarily money down the drain. There's a steady demand and values seem to rise steadily, or at least don't seem to fall.
Mr.Maven said:
........we're an independant contractor called SERCO .......
....are'nt they the same
's who do Ken's dirty work striping us for the Congestion Charge? Independent? Seems to me DVLC and Govt Dept Heads living in SERCO pockets.
Not a pop at you Mr.Haven but why do DVLC use a separate company to sell their own registrations?
cuprabri said:
........we're an independant contractor called SERCO .......
....are'nt they the same
Independent? Seems to me DVLC and Govt Dept Heads living in SERCO pockets.
Not a pop at you Mr.Haven but why do DVLC use a separate company to sell their own registrations?
And that's Mr.Maven actually
I have no idea although I guess there's a good reason for it. Don't know about the congestion charge stuff but SERCO used to do Railway enquiries before they were all shipped to Bangalore...
LuS1fer said:
They must be selling less. Started off at £399 then some came down to £250 and now they START at £599? The words "P*ss" and "Off" spring to mind.
No, they were originally £250, then when the current style came out they started off at £399 and now the E plates are £599.
But I agree, a rip off
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