How to read this
- Score is the same 0–100 desirability score the valuation tool gives your own plate — length, numbers, words, names, car and football references, visual patterns, all of it.
- Guide value is what the model expects this plate to resell for privately, based on real comparable sales in the 178,168-record dataset — not a promise.
- Bid up to is the ceiling I'd stop at: the hammer price where your all-in cost (hammer + 3% buyer's premium + 20% VAT + the £80 DVLA assignment fee) reaches roughly 55% of the guide value's low end. That leaves room for the time it takes to resell, negotiation, and the model being wrong.
- Current bid is a snapshot from the file you uploaded — check the live figure on the DVLA site before you bid, it will have moved.
- Your RRP defaults to the guide value's low end — type your own expected resale price over it and the margin column recalculates instantly against the all-in cost of the current bid (hammer + fees). Your numbers stay put while you sort or filter, they only reset on page reload.
- DVLA fees confirmed as of July 2026: 3% buyer's premium (reduced from a higher rate in October 2025), standard VAT, and an £80 assignment fee — all excluded from the advertised starting price and current bid.
- This is a data-driven estimate, not financial advice — I'm not a financial adviser and the plate market can move independently of the comps it's built on. Do your own check before bidding real money.
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Auction runs 22–28 July 2026, ending in staggered batches through the week (times shown above). Guide values and ceilings are estimates from historical DVLA auction data and do not account for condition of any physical plate, buyer competition on the day, or changes in market sentiment. Not financial advice.