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Regtransfers often sell the numbers to plates they don't own though!
I had a plate on my car a while back that they advertised without me even having given them authorisation to do so.
Also, how many TVR owners have 50k to spend on a plate??? It's the same price as most new TVRs FFS!
I had a plate on my car a while back that they advertised without me even having given them authorisation to do so.
Also, how many TVR owners have 50k to spend on a plate??? It's the same price as most new TVRs FFS!
This is the oldest money making trick in the book.
A owns 'TVR1'
Company X offers that plate for sale and gets a firm offer from B.
X then goes to A and offers to purchase the plate for a sum significantly less than B was offering. If A sells the plate, X immediately resells to B and marks up a good profit.
If A refuses the offer, then X asks how much he does want - if it's more than B offered, X goes back to B and tells him that the plate already sold or someone has already bid the same amount but not completed the sale yet. However, if B would like to increase his offer, X is sure he could buy back the plate/make sure the sale didn't complete.
This is something that happens with many products .... the key to doing it is to know who owns what prior to your offering it for sale.
Imagine you know someone with £30mill spare who'd love to own a particular Picasso. You also know who owns that same Picasso. So ... you go to the art lover and tell them that you've heard the painting may be on the market, what's he prepared to pay?
You then take this offer, less your commission, to the actual owner and work the same story as above.
With the right collection of phone numbers, a little inside knowledge and a phone it can be a licence to print.
(Just for as long as no-one ever realises what you're doing).
A owns 'TVR1'
Company X offers that plate for sale and gets a firm offer from B.
X then goes to A and offers to purchase the plate for a sum significantly less than B was offering. If A sells the plate, X immediately resells to B and marks up a good profit.
If A refuses the offer, then X asks how much he does want - if it's more than B offered, X goes back to B and tells him that the plate already sold or someone has already bid the same amount but not completed the sale yet. However, if B would like to increase his offer, X is sure he could buy back the plate/make sure the sale didn't complete.
This is something that happens with many products .... the key to doing it is to know who owns what prior to your offering it for sale.
Imagine you know someone with £30mill spare who'd love to own a particular Picasso. You also know who owns that same Picasso. So ... you go to the art lover and tell them that you've heard the painting may be on the market, what's he prepared to pay?
You then take this offer, less your commission, to the actual owner and work the same story as above.
With the right collection of phone numbers, a little inside knowledge and a phone it can be a licence to print.
(Just for as long as no-one ever realises what you're doing).
J1mmyD said:
This is the oldest money making trick in the book.
A owns 'TVR1'
Company X offers that plate for sale and gets a firm offer from B.
X then goes to A and offers to purchase the plate for a sum significantly less than B was offering. If A sells the plate, X immediately resells to B and marks up a good profit.
If A refuses the offer, then X asks how much he does want - if it's more than B offered, X goes back to B and tells him that the plate already sold or someone has already bid the same amount but not completed the sale yet. However, if B would like to increase his offer, X is sure he could buy back the plate/make sure the sale didn't complete.
This is something that happens with many products .... the key to doing it is to know who owns what prior to your offering it for sale.
Imagine you know someone with £30mill spare who'd love to own a particular Picasso. You also know who owns that same Picasso. So ... you go to the art lover and tell them that you've heard the painting may be on the market, what's he prepared to pay?
You then take this offer, less your commission, to the actual owner and work the same story as above.
With the right collection of phone numbers, a little inside knowledge and a phone it can be a licence to print.
(Just for as long as no-one ever realises what you're doing).
Not a writer for Hustle are you?
Tim
CiderwithCerbie said:
Now who do you suppose owns that number???
Dunno - been for sale for ages...
CiderwithCerbie said:
It's sale confirms factory cashflow meltdown.
Don't think the factory do own it... careful, that's how rumours start...
>> Edited by Podie on Friday 24th March 18:34
I wonder if the seller will throw in a free Sagaris in the same candy orange that the pre-production car was 
jo5eph said:
the most expensive plate in uk history is the single digit ...... 8
presumaby number 1-7 have been lost.
I watched a program on TV about number plates a few years back and the reg '8' was on a Rolls in Hong Kong, this was pre handover IIRC and it was cited as the most expensive number plate (and yes to do with 8 being Special Fried Rice, not the common egg fried
) >> Edited by njw 77 on Sunday 26th March 11:01
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