WHY REGFINDER. NET
WELCOME TO REGFINDER.NET
Of course, we’d all like a personal registration mark like the recently sold “F1” plate but for most of us, the £440,000 price tag would prove a little prohibitive.
So, the trick with private plates is to find a good one that nobody knows exists but everyone would want if they did.
The DVLA is without doubt or exception the best stocked and best value provider of UK personalised number plates there is... How could anyone else compete when the DVLA create them all in the first place.
It is the only place you will ever find a genuine bargain..... If you can find one, that is.
With a stock often in excess of 30 million registrations it would take a life time to sift through, trying to find words, names or phrases when, half the time, you’re not really sure what your looking for until you see it, and when most of the number plates don’t read anything, anyway.
Even if you had the time and patience for a task of this daunting scale, the DVLA stock is in perpetual flux, selling between 500 & 1000 cherished number plates every day with millions more being added every 6 months.
It’s not that surprising then, that most people become jaded by the whole process and either give up the search completely or turn to one of the many privateer registration plate dealers currently operating.
Privateer dealers mostly offer a good service but never offer good value.
They make their money by "marking up the product" which in itself wouldn’t seem too unreasonable. Everyone needs to make a living but, it would seem, some people need considerably less sleep than others once they’ve done so.
We all view estate agents with a little distain for making 1% or 2% on the sale of our property.
Imagine then, that you bought a house for £1 million and then discovered that the vendor received only £100k while the estate agent pocketed the £900K balance.....
And that this practice is not only legal, it’s the industry standard.
How do you feel....?
How does the vendor feel....?
It does stand to reason that privateer number plate dealers would have to make this sort of mark up as some of the bigger companies spend in excess of £50,000 a week on advertising.
That money has to come from somewhere.....
An example of this remarkable pricing is the personalised registration mark: – UP51ART.
I bought this from the DVLA for £799 after finding it by default using the - then manual – Regfinder system and quickly realized I had to be onto something as it had been available on the DVLA website for 2 or 3 years without anyone else noticing it.
You don't have to look very far in the private dealer’s advertisements to see that most 7 letter word number plates of this caliber are on sale for £10k or more.
Knowing that with the Regfinder system I could find THOUSANDS of such registrations I briefly thought my day job would soon be a thing of the past..... But its not that simple.
I’ve contacted most of the privateer traders regarding UPS1ART over the passed 2 or 3 years and been offered fixed contract prices of between £1200 and £216...
Needless to say UP51ART is staying in my possession for the foreseeable future..
It could always be worse though... I could have bought UP51ART from one of these companies for £10,000 then been told the price they would be willing to buy it back for..........
But, “Out of a virus the vaccine will come”, and this “virus” helped us with the decision to build Regfinder.net.
Now, Instead of manually trawling through the whole DVLA registration plate stock with pen and paper we've turned the idea into - "The number plate search engine" – for everyone to use and have found over 200,000 words and names.
Nearly all of them many times over.
To date, Regfinder.net has found, categorised, availability checked and price checked over 30 MILLION readable registration marks starting from “A” at the beginning of the prefix plates up to “13” in the current style.
All of the available personalised number plates found on Regfinder.net can be bought;-
DIRECTLY FROM THE DVLA - BY YOU – FOR THE DVLA PRICE.
Unlike the privateer dealers we aren’t a “middle man” and so don’t “mark up” the DVLA prices, nor do we receive any form of payment from the DVLA or any of the privateer companies. We charge a flat fee of £10 to register with Regfinder.net and that is all.
This project was started with a "Robin Hood style” design remit in mind and we believe that every £10 spent with us will create a customer so pleased, they’ll tell others about Regfinder.net
Word of mouth – we’re sure - will be the only advertising we'll need.
Reg
