Advice on selling some private plates

[OrkneyM3]

Hi guys, I have for sale some private plates left over from a sale of a hotel, ie all the cars in the family had them as it went with the name of the hotel!

R70 YAL, R80 YAL and R90 YAL, wonder who can guess the name of the hotel!?

So I called regtransfers and they offered to sell them for me with minimal hassle and I would net 750 a plate, does this sound good to you guys!? Any where else I should look to sell them? Never sold a plate before but I am tired of paying retention fees every year!

Cheers in advance

[MrDarkBlack]

Is it called Yal?

[djdestiny]

Are they offering to actually buy them from you or just advertise them for you and take a fee if they sell?

[OrkneyM3]

Thats the thing, they are offering to sell them for me and I will NET 750 each but they did not say what they will be selling them for so I wonder if they are worth a good bit more than 750!?

[djdestiny]

Let them advertise them and then you will see what they think they are worth
Personally, I dont think they are that special, so Id say 750 each is fair.
But remember someone else will have to think they are worth more than that, and thats what could take a long time

[tbc]

might be worth trying them on ebay for a week

[OrkneyM3]

I agree with what you are saying, they would only be good if you too owned a "Royal" hotel etc... A friend suggested calling up other hotels with the same name and asking if the owners would like to bid on them but did not know if anyone would pay that kind of money for them. Cheers for your help guys

[lowdrag]

The problems I've had with Regtransfers over the years, specifically overvalu8ing plates and of course they don't sell, then they come back ans suggest a lower valuation. In one case from 11,500 to a sale price (eventually) od 3,000. check out Primo - he's better in my opinion:-

http://www.primoregistrations.co.uk/

[MrReg]

Thanks Toad - did try and look out for you at Goodwood this year?

Drop me a PM or via valuation via the website and we'll come back to you quickly.

Cheers

[lowdrag]

Hope to be there with the XKSS but probably only on the day the Merc and Auto Union are running. Find it's getting tiring nowadays compared to days of yore when there were less people.

[magpie215]

Ask the queen if she wants to buy them ;-)

[falkster]

Selling cherished plates these days is such a bind. They're really worth nothing unless they do actually read something with squinting, closing one eye and standing on one leg.
They don't tell you how long it will take to sell them to net your £750. It won't matter to them if they have your plates listed for the next 3 years - they will just add them to their existing pile.
Try listing them on eBay either together or as seperate auctions.

[sebhaque]

A taxi (or private hire) firm in Bristol have a couple of VW Transporters with R20 YAL, R30 YAL and some more. If you'd like, I can enquire as to the name of this company and pop some details in this thread/via PM?

[Iain XR4i]

sebhaque said:

A taxi (or private hire) firm in Bristol have a couple of VW Transporters with R20 YAL, R30 YAL and some more. If you'd like, I can enquire as to the name of this company and pop some details in this thread/via PM?

sebhaque said:

A taxi (or private hire) firm in Bristol have a couple of VW Transporters with R20 YAL, R30 YAL and some more. If you'd like, I can enquire as to the name of this company and pop some details in this thread/via PM?

I'd suggest this is your best bet and, in your shoes, I would take whatever this company might offer instead of holding out for someone to advertise and maybe eventually sell your plate for 750, while paying 75 a year to keep the three of them on retention.