ebaying a numberplate

[alephnull]

Hi all,
Is there a safe way to sell a numberplate on ebay? Do i have to have the playe on retention...because i dont want to pay a retention charge. The numberplate is currently on my car, so i would have to register for a new registration.


Cheers all,

null

[alephnull]

Bump

[MrReg]

Nothing wrong with selling a plate on the bay of E.

Best way to do it is to put it on retention. It will cost you £105 to do this. When this is done you then just send the cert to the buyer, signed in both boxes so that they can add themselves as a nominee and assign it to their car. When you put it on retention a new plate is automatically assigned to your car (99 times out of a 100 it would be the previous reg if it was previously registered on one).

Just be careful when buying one on ebay - there's plenty of cons out there at the moment.

[alephnull]

No way to avoid the retention charge if im only gunna get a few hundred for it?

[mikezs]

alephnull said:

No way to avoid the retention charge if im only gunna get a few hundred for it?

Not unless you sell the car it's on too!

[MrReg]

You can save a whopping £25 by keeping it on your car and then transferring it to the buyers car upon sale, but you won't be able to get past the £80 transfer fee I'm afraid.
PM me the plate and I'll tell you whether it's worth selling or not

[southpaw]

MrReg said:

You can save a whopping £25 by keeping it on your car and then transferring it to the buyers car upon sale, but you won't be able to get past the £80 transfer fee I'm afraid.
PM me the plate and I'll tell you whether it's worth selling or not

Can you transfer plates directly between cars with different owners? I would have assumed this wasn't allowed as you have to be named on the retention certificate as nominee/grantee to put a plate on a car?

[Ravinda]

get both v5c's, mot's if needed, £80.00 and fill out a form at your local dvla office then about sevens later job done, you can transfer car to car instead of messing about with retention certificates