Hi,

I have never understood the attraction of so called private plates or cherished numbers and have never wanted one, much preferring the anonymity of a bland functional number, and retaining a few quid in my wallet.

However, I have just bought a new car, well new to me anyway.

It is a 1999 MB E300 estate, and it came with the original plate T 300 XYZ

where XYZ are three other characters which were the initials of the first owner.

Looking on ebay , and similar numbers are for sale for several hundred pounds.

Makes no sense to me , but if someone wanted to pay me such a sum I would be more than happy to oblige.

My question is, how would I go about selling it once I found an interested buyer , and can i get a new number (any number, preferably an anonymous T reg number) and what would that cost me.

Or might it be easier to do once this 15 year old car is ready to scrap ?

Just to be clear, I am not interested in anuy net expenditure to change my number, only interested if there is a profit to be made.

Any advise on the costs and hassle involved and any experiences had would be welcome.

Thanks