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Re: Bought a moggy
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:32 pm
by MCYorks
It's gone up since I looked the other day
The price must be based on the number of searches
but it is advertised on multiple sites.
Agree. Some of the asking prices are having a laugh... but what they ask for and what someone is willing to pay are two different things.
Re: Bought a moggy
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:17 pm
by jagnut66
It should never have been removed in the first place.
It would be better if this practice was regulated against, so that 'live' registrations stay with their original vehicles and 'dead' registrations, namely those off vehicles that have been officially scrapped, automatically go back in the DVLA pool and can then be purchased by people, at a capped fixed price (the same whatever the reg) or be reissued (relative to the year of the vehicle in question) to classics that come back into the UK.
Automatically putting dead registrations from scrapped cars into a DVLA run pool at a set price will also stop perfectly good cars being scrapped, so someone can get their hands on a particular registration.
The person concerned would have to pay twice, firstly the cost of said roadworthy vehicle (to scrap it for a much lower scrap value) and secondly to retrieve the reg from the DVLA, potentially making it a quite costly exercise.
Best wishes,
Mike.