Is this worth £400?

[boobydoo]

 

As you can see, the reg number on my Tagora is BEA 83Y. This was a private plate put on it by the first owner...the original reg was A26 JDU as the car was registered 01/08/1983.

 

I've been offered £400 for the plate by "Registration Transfers" an on-line company that specialises in private numbers. I only offered it to them a week or so ago and they told me then that they would advertise it and return me £1000.

 

They just phoned to say they have had an interest, but reckon they can now only return me £400.

 

I quite like the idea of having the original reg back on the car but just wanted to check I'm not missing anything. To me, BEA83Y doesn't spell anything so as far as I'm concerned the plate is worth nothing so I'm inclined to take the offer.

 

Would you agree?

 

Thanks

[warren t claim]

You had me all exited then! I thought you were selling a whole Tagora for £400...

 

Take their money. It's not the original number for the car anyway.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Yeah give it the old eve oh!

 

Spend the money on yourself getting pissed and then think about the tosser who is now driving about with that reg number on their MINI Convertible or whatever.

[Lankytim]

If you can get 400 notes go for it!

[Cavcraft]

Definately. Plates are very hard to sell these days unless they're something special so I reckon a four hundred quid return on that is well worth going for.

 

Take it they're paying for the transfer fees by the way?

[messerschmitt owner]

Punt the number, who cares anyway - unless the car has real history, which lets face it, it can't as it's a Talbot

[trigger]

£400 sounds good to me, but can you still get the old font style plate for your orginal plate like you have now or will it end up with one of these modern new fonts like on new cars because that wouldn't look so good.

[VWPowered]

good money for old ro... plastic, take it and run

[pogweasel]

If the plate has been on the car from new, leave it there.

 

They "valued" it at £1200 and are now offering you a third of that, plus you will probably have some more chipped away at that price. I'll wager that they'll be trying to sell it for alot more.

[trigger]

BEA61E is for sale at £19995, BEA 152Y is £1840 as is BEA 447Y, So something to think about me thinks.

[VWPowered]

+1 there trigger, get a proper evaluation

[Anglevan]

Personally i'd not deal with Regtransfers. A few years ago i tried selling the plate off my Capri - nowt special just 3 numbers 3 letters had it for 20 + years now but like you Regtransfers said they had a buyer said a £1000 notes to me - but it ended up being a rite fag with documents / letters etc. In the end I pulled out of the deal and kept the plate.

I've seen similiar plates to mine on various sites for £2000 + but not gonna sell now ..

Leave it on the Tagora - you know you want to

[trigger]

I seem to remember my uncle going through Reg Transfers now when he still had his old Volvo 440, They offered him something like a grand on his plate, L808LOO but no one ever bought it so it got scrapped with the rest of the car.

[morris_ital_lover]

BEA61E is for sale at £19995,

TBH I think that number is worth more as it has a strong dog/hunting connection, but it would probably be worth trying to push the price up with this company!

 

m0rris

[pogweasel]

BEA61E is for sale at £19995,

TBH I think that number is worth more as it has a strong dog/hunting connection, but it would probably be worth trying to push the price up with this company!

 

m0rris

GR8 4 Bedford HA (with extra windows)

[Richard]

I don't think you'll get the original number back, you'll get an age-related number issued by your local office.

[Justin Case]

I don't think you'll get the original number back, you'll get an age-related number issued by your local office.

I checked recently with DVLA about mine, as I'm thinking of changing, and they told me I would get the original number back. I bought my last car new, so it hadn't had any other number. When I sold it it was a given a new age-related number from the area of the garage where I part-exed it. Hope that clears things up a bit

 

I can't think of any significance for your number either, but have they really got a buyer lined up?

[dollywobbler]

I really like the look of two-number plates, especially Serck ones. I'd want to be pretty certain of the £400 before getting involved.

[Guest]

The story I tend to hear is that you contact them, they give you a price, stick it up for sale and it stays there until someone buys it (likely forever, unless it's a particularly attractive plate). Just sounds like a bit of a waste of time really.

[Timewaster]

The story I tend to hear is that you contact them, they give you a price, stick it up for sale and it stays there until someone buys it (likely forever, unless it's a particularly attractive plate). Just sounds like a bit of a waste of time really.

Hirst, this is EXACTLY what happens.

I had a £50 diesel Metro about 4 years ago which for some unknown reason had the private plate H14 ACW.

Reg.Transfers told me they could return £400 for it - WIN I thought!

To my knowlege it is still for sale even though I sold the car after 6 months of abuse. I never heard a thing from them apart emails trying to sell me wanky private plates.

Cheers for that Reg!

[boobydoo]

Thanks for the advice guys.

 

I checked with the woman at RT's and she said they do have an interested party. I saw that they'd advertised it at £1395.00, but I guess someone has probably knocked them down. I don't begrudge them making some sort of profit.

 

She is sending me the paperwork to look at before I sign the dotted line.

 

I think I wanted to check with you all that BEA 83Y didn't have any relevance to anything, as it seems to have sold rather quickly. To me it's just a crappy plate.

 

I rang DVLA and they said 9 times out of 10 they re-allocate the original number, so I would be happy with that.

[Anglevan]

I rang DVLA and they said 9 times out of 10 they re-allocate the original number, so I would be happy with that.

If it's been on a long time expect a new number, my number has been swapped onto various cars over the years. Back in the nineties I would always without fail get a completly differant number, when I questioned it at the time (just meant more expense making new plates up) they said the original number was lost in the system.

However in the last 8-10 years or so i've always got the original number back. Good luck anyway (out of interest I assume the glass didnt get etched with the number as was often the case on this era of car)

 

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[boobydoo]

Good point, no they weren't!

[Pillock]

Since they computerised all the records, you tend to get your old number back unless it's been reallocated. i.e. purchased through the private plate scheme. As the original didn't spell anything, this is unlikely. Prior to that it was just too much hassle so they just gave you an age-related plate.

 

I'm glad you've checked they have a buyer, as others have said quite often they'll "value" your plate, get you to sign up to them, and then they'll hold it pending a buyer that they hope turns up.

Just double-check everything, make sure they're not twisting their words, and that it's pretty much already sold.

 

Personally I'd also ring them and offer full asking price for the plate, see if they up their offer to buy it, basically shill them. But then i'm an unscrupulous git