Do People Really Pay Big Bux For Number Plates?

[Bakes]

Was looking at this site: http://www.numberplatetrader.com.au/start.htm

Some of the plates are pretty expensive. Note that "GTR 34" is on the NSW for sale list and advertised for $8K. Does anyone know someone that has actually bought or sold Number plates for Big dollars?? Or is it a Gee up??

Got me thinking, how much could I sell mine for?!?

[HEKT1K]

geez you'd hope they aren't selling for that much, some of those plates on the site were absolute shockers!

[DRD-00F]

There's not much point in NSW, you can't OWN a plate, you can only rent them from the RTA...

a single digit number plate costs about 7700 a year I think...

[HEKT1K]

really? that's lame.

single digit vic plates are easily a few hundred thousand, infact the number '1' sold for $2.1mil a few years ago

[DRD-00F]

That's to 'rent' them off the RTA every year. So whoever has it, has to pay $7700 to the RTA every 12 months... That is seperate to the amount he paid the previous owner for that right...

[HEKT1K]

oh that's even worse!!!

in response to OP, you have R34GTR yes?

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Vi...l&hl=r35gtr

[mad082]

yeah NSW sux with their number plate scheme. in qld you buy the number plate and you own it. no yearly fee or anything like that. i paid $365 for my plates and 3 months later the price went up to $395, LOL.

the autobarn here actually had plates that said "mad maz" for say a while back for $2000, which was actually a good price because the cost of buying the prestige plates new was $2200 at the time.

but yes, some people do pay stupid prices for plates. usually the ones that go for the most are ones associated with hotrods

actually there was a vw golf parked out the front of my shop today with the plates SR. seen it round town a few times. honestly if i was paying $2500 or whatever the prestige plates are in qld now, i would be wanting to make full use of the 6 letters and a space available to me

[RBwhatever]

standard issue plates is where its at dudes....

hahaha nah personalised are ok

[mad082]

oh i just remembered a thread on here years ago where someone was getting angry because heaps of hotrods have plates using the numbers 32, 33 and 34 and someone had to explain to them that it was because that was the year model of the car, they weren't putting them on because of a trend started by skyline owners

[M.C Ren]

hehe this reminds me of my plates going back around 4 or 5 years ago... had plates WTAWOG on a vl turbo hehe

sold em for $1000 bucks, could have gotten more but a mate couldnt let me let them go hehe

[Birds]

oh i just remembered a thread on here years ago where someone was getting angry because heaps of hotrods have plates using the numbers 32, 33 and 34 and someone had to explain to them that it was because that was the year model of the car, they weren't putting them on because of a trend started by skyline owners

LOL what a jackass. Typical riceboy ignorant of anything but Jap culture!

Good personalised numberplates do indeed sell for large sums of money. Problem is, 90% of numberplates for sale were bought by arrogant toffees from their RTA thinking they could make a penny on being the first one to come up with it. There are some absolute shockers on eBay. Some of the worst I have seen are BL-1942 (Bruce Lee, born 1942) which was asking $5000, and LEXUAL (Lexus and sexual spliced, go figure) for $10,000. I don't see the point to numberplates that state what the car is...unless it's a very unique, not easily identifiable car (or a classic). It's just pointless when you see RED-XR6 on a car that most people with eyeballs can see is a Red XR6.

My grandmother's numberplates "365" sold here in Victoria for an upper range 5 digit figure. They were on an old Mercedes worth 1/5th of that (owned from new though).

[HEKT1K]

your grandma has/had numberplates? coolest granny going around lol

[Birds]

Grandmother has/had alot of money lol

[DC33VN]

my friend got MSHEEN and he got offered 5 grand within the first week of having them and he was a idiot and didnt get rid of them....

[Bakes]

OK then, people can feel free to make me offers ~$10K then I guess. lol

[TALBO]

I love when you see really ghey plates that some clown has put on their car and paid extra for.... a couple that come to mind that I've seen here in Adelaide are a VN commo with "CALAY" plates and a VX Senator with "SENETOR" plates.

I do occasionally see clever plates that would make the expense worth while

[MUZT3K]

i dont mind personalised plates i actually have a pair [KOUKLO] most likely only greeks know what it means...but bad thing bout personalised plates is that people will always know who you are..so if you get on someones bad side you cant park it just anywhere and leave your car lol.

[N1GTR]

OK then, people can feel free to make me offers ~$10K then I guess. lol

What are your plates?

[ossie_21]

lol at some of the prices

I'd say mine are decent, be better than some of the ones I've found for WA on there & I wouldn't try selling them for near the prices some people have....

[Midol]

I want to get "MIDOL" plates.