RE: £1 million numberplate goes on sale
Discussion
Fire99 said:
Not a bad 'plate' but not £1 million good! In fact, not £50k good.
£50k is what the plate would suddenly be worth if the company handling this "sale" were in fact purchasing the plate from you and not marketing it..The free publicity generated by offering the plate at a million is well worth the effort. They may only attract a buyer for £250-300K (which is what they were looking for a while ago anyway..) but the headline grabbing figure of a million will get plastered all over the media and they haven't had to pay a penny for the advertising space!
I suppose for some it is just a trinket, a million quid isnt that much money to some people, especially as traditionally these things are usually decent investments, that said, a million quid seems a bit steep.
Funny things plates, you could signwrite any car legally with whatever you want as long as it wasnt in some way indecent for very little cost to tell others your name, something about your car or how much you approve of oral sex but people choose to contrive the mandatory car identification plate to pass on the messages, usually lost on most people, I think it must be down to working round the limitations and displaying a symbol of wealth that can easily be seen, would love to know what a psychologist makes of it. not saying it is right or wrong, just interested as to the underlying motivations.
Funny things plates, you could signwrite any car legally with whatever you want as long as it wasnt in some way indecent for very little cost to tell others your name, something about your car or how much you approve of oral sex but people choose to contrive the mandatory car identification plate to pass on the messages, usually lost on most people, I think it must be down to working round the limitations and displaying a symbol of wealth that can easily be seen, would love to know what a psychologist makes of it. not saying it is right or wrong, just interested as to the underlying motivations.
nickbee said:
Typical of asking prices on Regtransfers, which are beyond optimistic most of the time.
Do Regtransfers actually sell any plates? I've never had a reply to any offers made, they hassle with unrelated plate details by text, rarely return any phone calls, and were advertising a plate recently (that I purchased elsewhere) for 2x the price I paid.Of course it will never sell for £1m- the seller knows this! But advertising it for a million quid probably gets him all sorts of press coverage, "The Million Pound Plate" bla bla bla which is just a load of free advertising for his wares! And then when he sells it for £150k, or £50k, or whatever, he's laughing. And someone else gets to drive around with what is undeniably a very cool number plate!
jacklewisno1 said:
DodoRacing said:
Last week in London I saw a license plate that read "ONE". That's it! I wonder how much that would be worth?
that was bought for 250k a few years back by someone from the northwest.Most of the 'interesting' regs mentioned are nothing more than misrepresentations.
And nothing used to please me more than doing the knobheads who's car they were in
And having the plate removed (we all know you never 'own' the plate, you just pay for the rights to display it).
Same car done twice for misrepresenting the reg = reg can be removed by DVLA.
Laugh now, rich boy!
And nothing used to please me more than doing the knobheads who's car they were in
And having the plate removed (we all know you never 'own' the plate, you just pay for the rights to display it).
Same car done twice for misrepresenting the reg = reg can be removed by DVLA.
Laugh now, rich boy!
rtz62 said:
Most of the 'interesting' regs mentioned are nothing more than misrepresentations.
And nothing used to please me more than doing the knobheads who's car they were in
And having the plate removed (we all know you never 'own' the plate, you just pay for the rights to display it).
Same car done twice for misrepresenting the reg = reg can be removed by DVLA.
Laugh now, rich boy!
Are you a police officer? Do you know of any cases where the DVLA has removed the right to show the plate?And nothing used to please me more than doing the knobheads who's car they were in
And having the plate removed (we all know you never 'own' the plate, you just pay for the rights to display it).
Same car done twice for misrepresenting the reg = reg can be removed by DVLA.
Laugh now, rich boy!
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