Current DVLA Auction

[5LDC]

Anyone else noticed the reserve prices have been lowered for this auction? Has anyone bought anything interesting today ? I placed absentee bids on a couple but had no joy.
A few that caught my eye - AAD 44M £10k + fees ! COB 427D £5500 + fees ! CRA 119S £3600 + fees seemed a reasonable price. I can't help think that the pressure of auction pushes the price up on some, at best average plates.

[V8forweekends]

5LDC said:

Anyone else noticed the reserve prices have been lowered for this auction? Has anyone bought anything interesting today ? I placed absentee bids on a couple but had no joy.
A few that caught my eye - AAD 44M £10k + fees ! COB 427D £5500 + fees ! CRA 119S £3600 + fees seemed a reasonable price. I can't help think that the pressure of auction pushes the price up on some, at best average plates.

I get the AC Cobra one and I guess the other is some form of "Adam"? What is CRA 119S about?

[Freddy88FM]

No. But keeping my eyes peeled for another XX FM for my kit car... don't seem to be coming up at the moment.

[5LDC]

There's quite a few FM plates still not been issued, you can request one to be placed in future auction.

[sue20]

Good luck with that!! I've asked repeatedly for 5 plates to be added and I keep getting told they will be but they never are. Lol.

Also, I don't understand why you the variants that you can buy from the DVLA website are so limited. Frustrating.

[BFG TERRANO]

Got an alert being sent for ESH 11 being auctioned on the 9th. £1600 reserve, ouch!

[lowdrag]

I asked the DVLA to sell a number from the 1930's which was my Dad's, but reversed. I knew they couldn't sell it as is, so reversed. The reserve price was £1,200 and with three letters and three numbers it meant nothing to anyone else. So it went unsold. At £250 I'd buy it, but not more. some years back I asked the DVLA to sell 1 OKV, the reverse of the 1954 Le Mans D-type. Then they sold 2 OKV and then 3 OKV, the last at over £11,000. I owned 60 KV and asked the DVLA to then sell 6 OKV to make a pair. A snake in the grass, known to me, outbid me deliberately.

Edited by lowdrag on Wednesday 7th May 20:12

[Anglade]

V8forweekends said:

What is CRA 119S about?

That would be "Craig's" , unfortunately ....

Edited by Anglade on Wednesday 7th May 20:28

[Freddy88FM]

5LDC said:

There's quite a few FM plates still not been issued, you can request one to be placed in future auction.

Interesting, can I ask how you find out what is left unissued and how you request it! Would love 11 FM, 22 FM, 33 FM, 44 FM, 55 FM, 66 FM 77 FM or 99 FM. Actually I think a few of those are taken... from what I have seen.

[ArmaghMan]

sue20 said:

Good luck with that!! I've asked repeatedly for 5 plates to be added and I keep getting told they will be but they never are. Lol.

Also, I don't understand why you the variants that you can buy from the DVLA website are so limited. Frustrating.

Who are you asking?
I asked for 3 plates and all were put into the very next auction.

[aka_kerrly]

ArmaghMan said:

Who are you asking?
I asked for 3 plates and all were put into the very next auction.

If you have a good contact I'd be keen to know, there are a couple of plates I am very interested in to.

[Terminator X]

The plates in the OP are nonesense how can they be worth so much?! I have a UFO plate bought from the DVLA for 200 notes from memory, bargain imho.

TX.

[5LDC]

Freddy88FM said:

Interesting, can I ask how you find out what is left unissued and how you request it! Would love 11 FM, 22 FM, 33 FM, 44 FM, 55 FM, 66 FM 77 FM or 99 FM. Actually I think a few of those are taken... from what I have seen.

http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/search/previous-auction-plates.html?plate=Fm&searched=true&x=0&y=0

There is a contact email address on the Dvla auction website to request a registration.

Eta 11 FM and 99 FM should be available

Edited by 5LDC on Wednesday 7th May 22:54

[zedstar]

Freddy88FM said:

Interesting, can I ask how you find out what is left unissued and how you request it! Would love 11 FM, 22 FM, 33 FM, 44 FM, 55 FM, 66 FM 77 FM or 99 FM. Actually I think a few of those are taken... from what I have seen.

FM 77 lives up the road from me....

[mybrainhurts]

5LDC said:

There's quite a few FM plates still not been issued,

How do you know what's not been issued?

[ArmaghMan]

mybrainhurts said:

5LDC said:

There's quite a few FM plates still not been issued,

How do you know what's not been issued?

Given how many reverse FM plates have been sold at auction I'd guess they were never issued.


http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/search/prev...

[mybrainhurts]

ArmaghMan said:

mybrainhurts said:

5LDC said:

There's quite a few FM plates still not been issued,

How do you know what's not been issued?

Given how many reverse FM plates have been sold at auction I'd guess they were never issued.


http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/search/prev...

Sorry, I meant how do you determine the identity of plates that have not been issued?

I know lists are on the DVLA site, but these older ones that don't appear there?

[sue20]

ArmaghMan said:

Who are you asking?
I asked for 3 plates and all were put into the very next auction.

I've emailed from a link on the DVLA auction website. Always get a personalised named reply. I always hear others saying that they have requested plates that have gone into the next auction. The email replies always state that the plates I have requested have never been issued and are eligible to be auctioned, too.

Edited by sue20 on Thursday 8th May 05:17

[Silent1]

anyone got a reckon on the worth of 8dds?

[randlemarcus]

Silent1 said:

anyone got a reckon on the worth of 8dds?

Much less than 38DDs