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DVLA Timed Auction - June 2018
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DVLA Timed Auction - June 2018
I attended this quarters DVLA Number Plate Auction at Mercedes World in Brooklands, near Weybridge this week. Now working in ANPR, I thought I knew a little about number plates and a rough ideal on values, but there are still some odd plates going for silly money out there !
Plates that you would pull up behind at a set of traffic lights and think very little of are now reaching astonishing prices. Fair Play to the DVLA for making a mint out of something that costs them nothing, as it all goes into the Government Coffers some way or another.
Check out the achieved prices here:- http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/ ... catalogue/
I'll add a couple of photos, but the top plate I saw go through took ages and was a real drawn out battle, with the initial bidding flying to £15k then crawling bit by bit from there to £51,000 with neither bidder willing to conceed. it was " 45 O"
Silly Money ! Any one on here buy this one ? Top 10 prices achieved in this auction The Mercedes World was impressive too, with no admission fee its well worth a visit. Some outstanding exhibits there and you can test drive the Mercedes AMG GT-R, to if you wish. ( and are willing to part with £545 for half an hour!)
The AMG GT-R Only £1m's worth An exploded/suspended F1 Car, with all parts hanging on lines
Plates that you would pull up behind at a set of traffic lights and think very little of are now reaching astonishing prices. Fair Play to the DVLA for making a mint out of something that costs them nothing, as it all goes into the Government Coffers some way or another.
Check out the achieved prices here:- http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/ ... catalogue/
I'll add a couple of photos, but the top plate I saw go through took ages and was a real drawn out battle, with the initial bidding flying to £15k then crawling bit by bit from there to £51,000 with neither bidder willing to conceed. it was " 45 O"
Silly Money ! Any one on here buy this one ? Top 10 prices achieved in this auction The Mercedes World was impressive too, with no admission fee its well worth a visit. Some outstanding exhibits there and you can test drive the Mercedes AMG GT-R, to if you wish. ( and are willing to part with £545 for half an hour!)
The AMG GT-R Only £1m's worth An exploded/suspended F1 Car, with all parts hanging on lines
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Rn z4 great plate would have loved to get that
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Went for a driving experience there a couple of years ago, off road in the ML and skid pan and track in the AMG E63 great fun
The museum is a good walk around with some lovely exhibits.
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The museum is a good walk around with some lovely exhibits.
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I had a bid on 200 SXR, went for a bit too much in the end
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It's quite amusing to watch. Most of the big agency dealers seem to all sit on one big table together. They know what their clients maximum bid is and just hold their bidders card up until the bidding reaches their exit point, when they drop it down. Its odd to see two blokes sat next to each other chatting all day, then both bidding against each other, with whoever is online plus the telephone bidders !
One bloke spent £51k (which is about £60k with all the additional taxes thrown on) and then bid over £10k on something else 5 minutes later.(which he didn't get by the way)
I like to wander around the car park too as that normally has some interesting plates.
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I was online bidding on S54 MAD that day, but lost out went for over 2k in the end I think. Also had a punt on MCZ 118.
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This one was recently sent to me by a site I subscribe to, £17k !
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Interesting prices - I agree with you that SA17 DHU will look like any other nondescript plate on the road, meaningful only to the owner - bonkers price.
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Very Greedy by the Seller as he purchased it for £4,300 in May 2017.at the Cheltenham DLVA Auction (Prob c£5.5k all in with costs)
I know because I pointed it out to SRHutch when I saw it in the pre-sale catalogue.
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bloke I work for occasionally had T34 BOY - cost him stupid money
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OP,
Does 17 now read as 'N' then? daft people really will buy anything
Does 17 now read as 'N' then? daft people really will buy anything
Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it?
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Other than it was probably purchased by someone of Indian extraction who will be creative with the numbers & spacing so it matches their surname and reads SAnDHU
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It's just ridiculous. Apparently,
17 = N
7 = T
3 = E
All of the above are debatable, but what's not is that any of those combinations = t**t.
17 = N
7 = T
3 = E
All of the above are debatable, but what's not is that any of those combinations = t**t.
Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it?
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The 3 and 4 are almost forgivable, but use of the rest should result in going straight to the gallows
Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it?
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