Selling a registration number - good/bad experiences?
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I've just bought an old car, dating from 1955. It's number plate (MSU 707) is original, so I've decided to sell the registration.
I asked the first ten companies I found on Google for a valuation, but received all sorts of responses, from buying it now for 350, to selling it on my behalf with 1,000 net to me.
I've not done this before. Has anyone had any particularly good or bad experiences doing this? Can anyone recommend me a company? Seems like a business likely to attract all sorts of charlatans...
Cheers.
I asked the first ten companies I found on Google for a valuation, but received all sorts of responses, from buying it now for 350, to selling it on my behalf with 1,000 net to me.
I've not done this before. Has anyone had any particularly good or bad experiences doing this? Can anyone recommend me a company? Seems like a business likely to attract all sorts of charlatans...
Cheers.
it can take ages - I've had 4 or 5 plates for sale for many years and rarely get a sniff - and that's with 'relatively good' letters like POW. You could find a buyer in a month, but it could also take 10 years. I've never had any success with ebay for plates.
Try contacting Primo Reg as he tends to give a genuine appraisal on price and liklihood of sale.
Try contacting Primo Reg as he tends to give a genuine appraisal on price and liklihood of sale.
Edited by xPOW on Monday 2nd April 15:44
xPOW said:
it can take ages - I've had 4 or 5 plates for sale for many years and rarely get a sniff - and that's with 'relatively good' letters like POW. Yu could find a buyer in a month, but it could also take 10 years. I've never had any success with ebay for plates.
Try contacting Primo Reg as he tends to give a genuine appraisal on price and liklihood of sale.
Thanks. Hadn't come across them before. Just asked them for a valuation.Try contacting Primo Reg as he tends to give a genuine appraisal on price and liklihood of sale.
Benjaminpalma said:
FYI, it was Elite Registrations who offered to buy it - if you need money quickly.
I tried them before but they just wanted to advertise the plate and only offered me £400 for it but I had to pay them £80 in fee's first. Or if I wanted them to cover the fees I would only get £230 if they sold it.I guess logic suggest two options:
1. If you aren't in a hurry find someone offering a good deal and high £££ rate (checking all the clauses). Give it a whirl for a month or two and see if you get anything.
2. If the above fails or you just want done with it, sod the email route, pick up the phone and have a phone around and find the highest offering you can in a couple of hours and take it.
1. If you aren't in a hurry find someone offering a good deal and high £££ rate (checking all the clauses). Give it a whirl for a month or two and see if you get anything.
2. If the above fails or you just want done with it, sod the email route, pick up the phone and have a phone around and find the highest offering you can in a couple of hours and take it.
I've sold a few over the years, but with the exception of two plates, they have all been advertised for a number of years!
MSU isn't a particularly valuable sequence, so i'd think it would be advertised for a long while, unless you were happy to sell it cheaply.
I had a four digit plate advertised for about 2 weeks and it sold and a cheapy Irish plate sold after a week on ebay.
But I just wanted the Irish plate off the car, so took £100 for it, plus the transfer fees.
I've had similar plates to yours advertised for 15 years plus!
MSU isn't a particularly valuable sequence, so i'd think it would be advertised for a long while, unless you were happy to sell it cheaply.
I had a four digit plate advertised for about 2 weeks and it sold and a cheapy Irish plate sold after a week on ebay.
But I just wanted the Irish plate off the car, so took £100 for it, plus the transfer fees.
I've had similar plates to yours advertised for 15 years plus!
MrReg said:
Hi Guys,
Ben I've sent you an email back.
No dealer should ever charge you to advertise a plate. That's just plain wrong. We only make money when we sell it.
Thanks xPOW for the recommendation.
Any probs don't hesitate to PM me.
Cheers
P
Hi PeterBen I've sent you an email back.
No dealer should ever charge you to advertise a plate. That's just plain wrong. We only make money when we sell it.
Thanks xPOW for the recommendation.
Any probs don't hesitate to PM me.
Cheers
P
That was quick! Thanks for the email.
Ben
k-ink said:
Which is why you never want to spend more then a few hundred quid on a plate. You will never sell them, unless you give them away to a stealer. Total waste of time.
I'd never spend one quid on one - just not my thing. My TVR's got a very good "TVR" plate which came with the car. I'm just waiting to put an MOT back on it so's I can sell it.LeeThr said:
Make me an offer on K16 DEW if you want. 
Sorry...HON2A said:
cheap dateless plate
You might want to contact the person below, they'd love it!http://th-th.facebook.com/people/Kib-Dew/100002896...
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