folks

i'm interested in buying a car which has a private plate on it; now i'm only buying the car for the plate!.

the car is cheap'ish as it is (£800), so i wrote to regtransfer and they come back with a valuation of £500 for the plate

my question is, in your experience do they massively over value plates just to get you to advertise it with them or are they pretty accurate valuations?

i dont want to buy the car if i cant sell the reg quickly - whilst i appreciate it all depends on the configuration of the plate, i intend just to make a quick few quid off the plate then punt the car on

opinions please!
Matt

 

They MASSIVELY over value plates!

They valued a plate I own at £2300 and I've had it for sale at £400 for 3 years now and had no joy.

 

that's not promising then!

what is your plate out of interest? i guess it all depends on what the actually letters & configuration is

the one in question is KFR 54D

 

GO 04 LYN

 

that's quite a nice plate too!

i had a feeling they might overvalue plates

 

I would say thats a £300 plate tbh........and i have bought, sold, own a few

 

Yeah, vastly, lol!

 

not worth anything dude,
unless the plate says summit without miss-representing it, it's worth peanuts.

the only way you could market that would be K FR5 4D to a focus rs owner.

 

mike is that G 004 LYN or GO 04 LYN as might be interested if its the G 004 LYN thanx alain

 

cheers tiff, even if it did get £300 for it, i'd be happy - its just how quick they can sell it for me!

just need someone with those initals

 

good thinking

 

true in your case, i wonder how they come up with the valuations!

 

it's impossible for it to be G004 LYN as as this would read G4 LYN it's a 2004 reg not a 1990

 

As Furry says, it's an 04 (2004) plate