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The government regularly auctions number plates and as sponsors of the Auction price guide & Car Numbers we automatically attend all auctions, benefitting from an excellent working knowledge of how these auctions work. We have acquired hundreds of plates by way of auction for many different clients in the past and saved them a lot of time and certainly a lot of money. You have nothing to lose, if we bid for you we only charge a small booking fee of £20, then if we are successful we will charge a fixed commission of £250.
All auctions are now excellently managed by Premier Motor Auctions.

There are currently two types of auction, the custom marks auction which is mainly for lower priced year letter numbers & the classic collection, where more select and expensive number plates are sold.

About Swansea

The department of transport started selling car number plates in the late 1980's. Now over 10 years later they have sold thousands of personalised number plates or private registration numbers worth over £50,000,000 to the treasury.
They sell previously un-issued numbers in three styles of plates priced from £1000 up to £200,000). All number plates released or issued through the sale of marks scheme have never previously been issued and are held as government stock. All prices are subject to vat and the £80 department of transport transfer fee.
Registration numbers purchased through such auctions will also be subject to an auctioneers premium of 7.25% or 7.50% of the hammer price. The highest bid yet was for K1 NGS, which made a total of £239,192. Others like P1 LOT made £66,000 on the hammer. MUS 1C £65,000. S1 NGH £86,000. 1 A £160,000. 1 J £60,000. All number plates are transferred through local vehicle registration offices & completed by Swansea. A list of local vehicle registration offices.

A Number Plates supplier is someone whose business consists wholly or partly of supplying vehicle number plates i.e. finished plates that incorporate the registration mark of a vehicle registered with Swansea. Manufacturers, distributors, assemblers, motor factors, motor dealers and retail outlets including on-line retailers could fall within the scope of the scheme provided that they supply the finished product, ie; number plates. Motor dealers who refit their used vehicles for sale with replacement plates would be classed as number plate suppliers.
If a business supplies only blank plates or other components or materials it will not be required to register. People who manufacture plates solely for their own use, rather than supply to third parties, are not within the scope of the legislation e.g. a fleet operator who assembles plates and fits them only to vehicles in his fleet. As he does not supply the plates, he is not a supplier for the purposes of the legislation.

The Register of Number Plate Suppliers comes into force on 1 January 2003, but to allow businesses that are not registered to do so and to adjust their procedures, certain offences will not come into force until 1 March 2003. These offences are:-

i) Trading while unregistered
ii) Supplying an unregistered business
iii) Failure to keep records
iv) Failure to make the appropriate checks

The Police or Local Authorities will not have right of access to a business until 1 March 2003.

NB. It should be noted that the offence of selling 'counterfeit plates' (plates that do not conform to the specifications in the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 comes into force on 1 January 2003.

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