eBay number plate quickie

[500tops]

I believe there's a way to find out a number plate of a vehicle listed on eBay even if it's obfuscated?

 

Some kinda code or summat?

 

I have searched but to no avail

[lesapandre]

I've no idea specific on that. Just expressing interest and asking the lister usually works for me. Without knowing a MoT history or HPI it is otherwise just bidding blind.

[neil1971]

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This was originally posted by Pillock a few years back, so I can't claim any credit for it

You can only do it if the ebay advert has the "Get the vehicle status report" link in the Item Specifics box, where the reg number will be "Y******" or something.

Click the link, in the address it goes to something like http://cgi.ebay.co.u...&vrm_d=Y*** ***

 

It'll say "Viewjumppageforvehiclehistory" in the address, and then &vrm= with a load of gibberish.

You want to copy the bit after &vrm= until the first % sign - so in the example above, it's WTY2OFhBT

 

Go to https://www.base64decode.org/and paste that encoded text in, and hit decode.