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JOE 9T
Still pestering DVLA for the reg I want
JON 150N it ain't ever been issued and they tell me it will be up for auction one day, anyway they send a news letter every month with the latest numbers to be auctioned and the reserve on them, found this whilst looking thru the "J" section........JOE 9T with a reserve of £600, don't know what it will fetch but caught my eye with what I would guess is a low reserve for that number.
Any Joe's out there fancy a pop ??
BTW will be on road with all new shiney bits very soon for fish n chips..........
Still pestering DVLA for the reg I want
JON 150N it ain't ever been issued and they tell me it will be up for auction one day, anyway they send a news letter every month with the latest numbers to be auctioned and the reserve on them, found this whilst looking thru the "J" section........JOE 9T with a reserve of £600, don't know what it will fetch but caught my eye with what I would guess is a low reserve for that number.
Any Joe's out there fancy a pop ??
BTW will be on road with all new shiney bits very soon for fish n chips..........
Jon Ison said:Keep e-mailing them and pestering them, and they will issue it for auction. This is what I did with WAR83N, it was also never issued, after a year or two of my constant hassling them, they eventually put it in auction and I got it. Guide price was £600, it was only entered because I wanted it, unfortunately others did bid on it, I ended up paying £1900. But I have wanted that number ever since 1975, so I guess it was mine by rights.
JON 150N it ain't ever been issued and they tell me it will be up for auction one day
As BG mentioned, write and speak to DVLA.
Write in. Ask about the plate when you see the DVLA regisitrations stall at car shows/auctions etc. Get one or two other people to write in. Phone up asking if any progress.
Maybe even get your wife to phone in and ask if it can be put up to auction as she'd like to buy it for your 25th wedding anniversary/retirement present.
The retirement present story has been known to work, even better as it was true.
DAZ
(Have been successful in getting two plates to auction and buying them, shame other people had to make it expensive by bidding against me.)
Write in. Ask about the plate when you see the DVLA regisitrations stall at car shows/auctions etc. Get one or two other people to write in. Phone up asking if any progress.
Maybe even get your wife to phone in and ask if it can be put up to auction as she'd like to buy it for your 25th wedding anniversary/retirement present.
The retirement present story has been known to work, even better as it was true.
DAZ
(Have been successful in getting two plates to auction and buying them, shame other people had to make it expensive by bidding against me.)
dazren said:
DAZ
(Have been successful in getting two plates to auction and buying them, shame other people had to make it expensive by bidding against me.)
Hmm. Since the DVLA seems to be running some sort of entrapment scam by suggesting words that clearly would benefit from bespoke spacing of the number characters when this is, of course, a heinous crime against society, it would not surprise me if the counter bidder had either been tipped off or were in fact in the employ of the scammers, in some way, in order to increase the income.
A punt at £299 is not so bad but if you spend a few grand on a plate which can never actually be yours to fully control since they have the option to revoke title at any time, it might one day prove expensive. Would not surp-rise me if they start to reclaim a few of the more interesting ones on the basis of repeated offences of mis-spacing, for example, thu sgleaning revenue from the lead in fines and the ability to re-sell the plate once it is back in stock.
Quite why they have not been prosecuted for incitement to encourage people to commit a crime I really can't understand.
LongQ said:
DAZ
(Have been successful in getting two plates to auction and buying them, shame other people had to make it expensive by bidding against me.)
Hmm. Since the DVLA seems to be running some sort of entrapment scam by suggesting words that clearly would benefit from bespoke spacing of the number characters when this is, of course, a heinous crime against society, it would not surprise me if the counter bidder had either been tipped off or were in fact in the employ of the scammers, in some way, in order to increase the income.
Totally agree in that I'm always suspicious of auction rigging and scams. But on the two occasions I secured plates at auction, once was in person and I saw other people/traders bidding and it is a plate I could easily sell today for more money. On the second occasion I bid by phone and had a colleague (local to the area) go along to bid should my phone line break! and keep an eye on who else was bidding. He saw nothing suspicious, just a few dejected people, pi$$ed off as some scunthorpe who hadn't even attended in person had bought it by phone bid.
DAZ
>> Edited by dazren on Friday 10th February 10:21
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