I have a plate I quite fancy and a site I stumbled across (Cazana) claims they can approach DVLA to release it as its a plate that has never been issued.
Before I part with £125 admin fees is this something anyone has experience of? The T&Cs seem a bit ambiguous as to if you get the fees back on finding out they can't complete the process.
You can ask DVLA yourself release it. It does not cost anything.
They will put it into an auction where you have a chance of buying it.
Contact DVLA directly yourself and ask them to include the plate in one of their auctions. If they won't they'll give you the reason why.
SantaBarbara 3,244 posts 113 months Monday 25th September 2017Which format is the plate in?
New style DE 99 ABC
Or an older style?
Go to a Dealer in the area where that two letter series is issued and ask if they can sell you a car with that registration
Have you looked on the dvla website to see if you can buy it direct? (many new style plates are listed and can be bought immediately)
You can ask DVLA yourself release it. It does not cost anything.
They will put it into an auction where you have a chance of buying it.
Indeed, i have done this in the past, then waited 9 months for an email to say it was being put into an auction. Based on number plates with 1 digit different being £200-300 I was a bit miffed when the starting bid was £795. I left it and it was put into auction again 6 months later for the same price.
Another number plate I enquired about was put into auction, I bid on that one. The way their online auctions work is if someone bids in the last 30min the auction is extended another hour. Hence I was annoyed I waited until the last few min and was the only bidder. Until 1 min to go. I entered a bidding war with someone who pushed the price from £400 to £1300 before I conceded on the basis that + fees and VAT the plate isn't worth it.
Call me cynical but I believe the DVLA were shill bidding me because 5 years later the plate is not listed on the tax/MID database, not listed on DVLA or reg transfers so where has it gone?
I tried getting the DVLA to put a plate into auction for several years before I left the UK.
Format was LNNN LLL.
Never happened. They said they would but it never showed.
A little bit of topic, but certainly 'plate' related.
I've got a really unusual surname (1 of only 9 in the UK, all the others are my immediate family). For a number of years I waited for the 17 plates to come out as I could technically make a plate up with my 1st initial then my surname. It would be a subtle plate as I wouldn't have played about with the numerals. We was also in the process of buying a 2017 car which we could assign it too. I even thought about buying a similiar plate, with a different initial, for my Daughter and sticking it on retention for when she starts to drive.
Well, when the registrations were released the 2 plates were on the DVLA website priced at (IIRC) £399. I thought, great, I'll get that sorted but left it for a couple of weeks safe in the knowledge there wouldn't be any interest. well, I was wrong. All but 1 of the plates (including the 2 I was interested in) that make up my surname have disappeared off the DVLA website. It appears none have been assigned.
Now, if I was a cynical man I'd suspect that the DVLA are perhaps letting some of the cherished registration companies know that someone has gone onto the website, entered a registration and that the company buys it up in the hope the person who made the enquiry buys it off them, at the profit.
Cynical or the ramblings of a mad man ??
I'be asked for 4 plates to be put into auction. 3 (in live auctions) were bought by a dealer who then marked the price up by at least 500% and then tried to sell directly to me. All 3 have been for sale with them for years.
I did buy the 4th via the online auction.
A little bit of topic, but certainly 'plate' related.
I've got a really unusual surname (1 of only 9 in the UK, all the others are my immediate family). For a number of years I waited for the 17 plates to come out as I could technically make a plate up with my 1st initial then my surname. It would be a subtle plate as I wouldn't have played about with the numerals. We was also in the process of buying a 2017 car which we could assign it too. I even thought about buying a similiar plate, with a different initial, for my Daughter and sticking it on retention for when she starts to drive.
Well, when the registrations were released the 2 plates were on the DVLA website priced at (IIRC) £399. I thought, great, I'll get that sorted but left it for a couple of weeks safe in the knowledge there wouldn't be any interest. well, I was wrong. All but 1 of the plates (including the 2 I was interested in) that make up my surname have disappeared off the DVLA website. It appears none have been assigned.
Now, if I was a cynical man I'd suspect that the DVLA are perhaps letting some of the cherished registration companies know that someone has gone onto the website, entered a registration and that the company buys it up in the hope the person who made the enquiry buys it off them, at the profit.
Cynical or the ramblings of a mad man ??
My understanding is that about 4 months prior to a new registration issue the DVLA offer most combinations of new regs e.g AA67ABC but as the actual date of registration comes closer the availability is restricted to a more limited group of letters e.g. JAG or BMW.