If anyone is thinking of buying a personal number plate then avoid British Car Registrations at all costs. They lie about transfer fees (i.e a car-to-car transfer costs £80 and is clearly stated on the DVLA Transfer Form yet they still charge £105) and when they don't send number plates (another thing you get roped into buying) they don't give refunds even though they are in the wrong for not supplying them. Be warned.

cheers dude was looking at them cos i was after 1 they seemed to good to be true

Most dealers are a rip-off now IMO.

 

I have personal reg plates on all 3 cars and I bought them from DVLA directly.

 

B5*** was £395 inclusive, D6*** for £495 and H16*** for £249

 

Can't go wrong at those prices - dealers are knocking out B plates with 1 number for £700+ now

 

Richard :smw:

cheers dude was looking at them cos i was after 1 they seemed to good to be true

 

Don't tell me, you were after BUN 91E ? :rofl: (BUNGLE) ;)

 

:rofl:

Don't tell me, you were after BUN 91E ? :rofl: (BUNGLE) ;)

 

:rofl:

pmsl im looking for that 1 now

Maybe we should all chip in for Wozzer - ZIP 1E :rofl:

Who could have G30 RGE tho? :confused:

If anyone is thinking of buying a personal number plate then avoid British Car Registrations at all costs. They lie about transfer fees (i.e a car-to-car transfer costs £80 and is clearly stated on the DVLA Transfer Form yet they still charge £105) and when they don't send number plates (another thing you get roped into buying) they don't give refunds even though they are in the wrong for not supplying them. Be warned.

 

If you're buying a plate off another car I'm pretty sure they'll put it on retention for you rather than registering it directly onto your vehicle. This will mean you'll get a certificate which you'll take to your local DVLA office and they'll process it for you. The retention fee is indeed £105 but includes the transfer fee to put the plate back on another vehicle. I don't think you've been ripped off. I've paid both fees before now depending on how I moved the plates and the availability of the vehicles involved.

 

Also you don't usually get a set of plates when you buy a number. Just a certificate. You then get your own plates made up. Unless of course you specifically paid for a set of plates on top of the price of the registration number in which case :(

AND 19 posts since May 2003! That's got to be some kind of record lol. You're the AntiDuff!

I know I don't post much - don't know why myself! Anyway, in my case DLVA form V317 for a vehicle-to-vehicle transfer clearly states £80 transfer fee so yes it is a ripoff being charged £105 (which relates to V778 vehicle-to retention or vice-versa). Only wanted to warn others!

Forgot to add - here's one of the conditions you have to agree to when buying a registration from them and therefore why you get roped into buying plates you maybe don't want:-

 

Number Plates must be purchased from The Company, please contact us upon completion of the transfer and we will arrange despatch immediately. We can arrange for delivery before completion but only at your specific request - it is illegal to display the new mark before the transfer is complete.

Doh! :

They will charge £105 because you can only transfer the reg car to car if you are the registered keeper of both vehicles, if you arent then you have to be made a nominee for that number and dvla charges £25 to add or change nominee details, so i dont think they are ripping you off but simply passing on the costs they incur which will be the £80 assignment fee and £25 nominee fee.

I was only charged £80 to transfer my old plate.

The DVLA charge £80. + VAT. The other £25 is a retention fee. You wont have to pay this if you put the number straight on the car. They aint lying really. I have private numbers on both my cars and know the costs.

I changed my Skyline number from my Vectra and because it went straight on there was no £25 retention. Just £80 transfer and obviously the 6 months TAX. If you do put the number on retention then they will charge you £25 each year until it goes on a car.

 

HTH.

vini

I don't know of many reg dealers that would have the plate on a car, so £105 is correct and I definitely don't know of any reg dealer supplying the actual number plate for the car.

A proper reg dealer will sell you the exclusive rights to the number. It costs what you pay for the number and the fee of £80. + V.A.T. Most of them give you the option to buy the plates already made for you at extra cost. You dont have to buy the plates the optioin is there at the checkout either tick or un-tick the box? These companies are directly connected to DVLA and they all use the same Database. there is no way any of the proper dealers can rip you off. They might charge a bit more for the acctual cost of the number but thats your choice to pay that price or try and search a lower price from another dealer.

 

The price of £105. is for reg transfers from one car to retention certificate. You will not be charged the extra £25 if the number is going onto a car. If the company are trying to charge this then walk away they are not a proper company. Unless the price has gone from £80 to £105 in the last 2 months or so which is when I transfered my number over to my Skyline?

....................These companies are directly connected to DVLA and they all use the same Database. there is no way any of the proper dealers can rip you off. They might charge a bit more for the acctual cost of the number but thats your choice to pay that price or try and search a lower price from another dealer..............................

 

DVLA direct is still the best option though, as the dealers have to make their profits after all.

 

When I was buying D6*** for my SLK, it was £495 fully inclusive. However NewReg and Elite - both long standing reputable companies - were selling the same number (like you say, they are linked to DVLA's database) for £495 plus VAT plus £80 transfer fee.

 

Richard

DVLA direct is still the best option though, as the dealers have to make their profits after all.

 

When I was buying D6*** for my SLK, it was £495 fully inclusive. However NewReg and Elite - both long standing reputable companies - were selling the same number (like you say, they are linked to DVLA's database) for £495 plus VAT plus £80 transfer fee.

 

Richard

 

Thats the thing Richard you have to do a bit of shopping to get the deals. I got my first number for my MG ZT it was M6 RVR from personallyyours.com and it was about £550. My Z number was £450 and the B15NOP on the skyline was again about £550. these are inclusive prices. Reg Transfers wanted over £700 inclusive for the B15NOP number when i did an online enquiry. The best I have seen just lately is http://www.plates4less.co.uk/ but no doubt they may still be beaten?

OK. Registration dealers hardly ever "own" registrations but can advertise for sale registrations on behalf of individual customers who have a registration they want to sell (then put a hefty markup fee on top of the customer's asking price). The seller's registration can be either still on a car or on a retention certificate. If it is on a car and as the buyer you want it to go straight onto your car then you complete a DVLA V317 vehicle-to-vehicle transfer with a stated fee on the form of £80. Therefore charging £105 is wrong. As for the actual number plates themselves BCR's attitiude is that it is a condition of sale that you buy the plates from them - no plates no sale. Their Sales Invoice has the transfer fee of £105 hardprinted with no mention anywhere of an £80 transfer fee so it is just another way of getting an extra £25 off every sale straight into their own pockets. Go to their website, select any registration available to buy (most are phone enquiry only) and the next page will always state £105 transfer fee - £80 is never shown. Select next step and read condition 7 about plates. Just like most people I hate bad service or being ripped off by companies and I just want to make others aware of the way BCR works.

OK. Registration dealers hardly ever "own" registrations but can advertise for sale registrations on behalf of individual customers who have a registration they want to sell (then put a hefty markup fee on top of the customer's asking price). The seller's registration can be either still on a car or on a retention certificate. If it is on a car and as the buyer you want it to go straight onto your car then you complete a DVLA V317 vehicle-to-vehicle transfer with a stated fee on the form of £80. Therefore charging £105 is wrong. As for the actual number plates themselves BCR's attitiude is that it is a condition of sale that you buy the plates from them - no plates no sale. Their Sales Invoice has the transfer fee of £105 hardprinted with no mention anywhere of an £80 transfer fee so it is just another way of getting an extra £25 off every sale straight into their own pockets. Go to their website, select any registration available to buy (most are phone enquiry only) and the next page will always state £105 transfer fee - £80 is never shown. Select next step and read condition 7 about plates. Just like most people I hate bad service or being ripped off by companies and I just want to make others aware of the way BCR works.

 

Fair play a decent heads up. I think it just went a bit off the beaten track. :D