Auction of Personal Number Plates - June 2010

The third major number plate auction of 2010 took place last week at Whittlebury Hall in Towcester, Northamptonshire.

Highest prices paid:

7 O - £65,500
10 OOO - £42,200
77 M - £24,500
1 KMW - £17,200
1 EPS - £15,000
1 TWN - £14,400
786 CH - £13,000
81 H - £12,200
SHG 1 - £12,000
84 S - £11,100
1 HSN - £11,000
VSB 1 - £10,600
88 P - £9,700

All prices are hammer prices and do not include buyers premium, v.a.t. or the £80 DVLA transfer fee.

Of the 1500 registrations available, 356 sold at the reserve or opening bid price. 111 registrations remained unsold after failing to get a bid.

Again we witnessed that it only takes two determined bidders to make an auction successful. The personal number plate 10 OOO could have sold for £14,000. A telephone bidder clearly intent on securing this particular number plate continued to bid against a written bid which had been submitted prior to the sale. Eventually the written bid was taken out and the anonymous telephone bidder now has the pleasure of displaying 10 OOO on his or her car for a hammer price of £42,200.

At Simply Registrations we also managed to secure some very attractive registrations for our clients and also for our own stock. Have a look at the cherished number plates we have available and see if anything catches your eye. Hopefully we can then include a photograph of your car in our number plates gallery having transformed its appearance.