Dateless 911 plate for sale: 911 6WX

[Zingari]

Has anyone on here EVER bought a number plate from an advert on 911UK?

Trevor is always interested.

 

[spongebob squarepants]

I sold 981GTS via a forum advert, granted not on here but was snapped up on the PCGB forum.........granted also it was a crap plate and cheap (its all relative) :floor: .......ie a true 3x3 relevant Porsche plate :roll:

In my experience a truly 'good" plate will always sell for strong money relatively quickly but a........not so good plate trying to be something it really is not will struggle :dont know:

Having said all that this is a sub £1000 plate and the OP is asking for <£1000 for it (I think).........just depends if you are prepared to break the law and have to change it for every MOT :dont know:

TBF you gave that away! In the world of Porsche plates, that was a cracker, nearly as good as S27 UTD...

 

[TurboRob]

It was on an interesting car once upon a time:

https://ashley1172gtcoupe.weebly.com/ashley-1172---9116-wx.html

This increased pedigree must add a few zeros to the asking price, surely.

 

[jonttt]

It was on an interesting car once upon a time:

https://ashley1172gtcoupe.weebly.com/ashley-1172---9116-wx.html

This increased pedigree must add a few zeros to the asking price, surely.

You googled the reg :hand:

 

[spongebob squarepants]

It was on an interesting car once upon a time:

https://ashley1172gtcoupe.weebly.com/ashley-1172---9116-wx.html

This increased pedigree must add a few zeros to the asking price, surely.

If you juggle 1172 round enough times you get 9116 :grin: :dont know:

 

[James M-S]

You lot are brutal. :kungfu:

 

[FZP]

As I said in another number plate post. All they are is an expensive novelty that adds no value to Porsche ownership or the knowledge base. So it's open season :gunfire:
All in good fun though :grin:

 

[Kryton]

I'd have thought £200 max... :grin:

 

[Zingari]

I'd have thought £200 max... :grin:

:hand: I could see it pulling a monkey on eBay in its correct format. I'd give £250 for it :thumb:

 

[Marka]

I'd have thought £200 max... :grin:

:hand: I could see it pulling a monkey on eBay in its correct format. I'd give £250 for it :thumb:

I'd of said £150, before any Porsche premium

 

[Zingari]

I'd have thought £200 max... :grin:

:hand: I could see it pulling a monkey on eBay in its correct format. I'd give £250 for it :thumb:

I'd of said £150, before any Porsche premium

What can I say; I'm a generous chap :thumbs:

 

[Tom Clarke]

I'm going to get this off my chest and then never bother this thread or forum again. It's quite possible that this forum and indeed thread is hillarious and in no way a series of negative, uninclusive, unwelcoming holier than thou w*nkers sh*t alking to newcomers for no reason other than to bolster their own egos. I am fairly profoundly autistic (not taking the p*ss I actually am) and I have been known to misjudge humour and sarcasm before, it's fairly common amongst autistic people. I have however shown this thread to a few people I know and they don't see the funny side or it either, and described it as a bunch of bullies.

Now, I read several posts before I made my initial post. Reason being I wanted to judge the tone of the forum before posting. I saw immediatey that not just in the registrations section, the tendency to reply with negative responses was far greater than the tendency to reply with positive responses. Some car communities are like that, others are much more welcoming. I almost didn't post because of it, but thought as long as I write the post well and make it obvious I am a fellow car, infact fellow Porsche enthusiast, people will see it for what it is. I wanted to sell the plate to a fellow enthusiast, I'd have taken £500 as a lowest offer if I thought it would end up on another 911 because it would make me smile.

What I wasn't doing was trying to sell a "gash plate" at an "inflated price". I did absolutely make the mistake of listing the plate with the spacing which I displayed it with, rather than that which is on the retention document. I didn't do this to be misleading, I just did it because that's how I think of the plate since that's how I saw it every day for years. Everybody at some point has made a mistake. I really wish I hadn't.

The plate isn't gash. To call something somebody else owns and has payed for gash is incredibly rude. If I told you your car was gash just because I had a better one or had seen a better one, you'd think it was incredibly rude. If I turned up to your house and told you how rubbish it was compared to one I used to own or lived in now, you'd presumably think I was one of the rudest people you'd encountered. Basic manners.

The plates value is also not inflated. How does one value a plate? Well, there is obviously an algorithm used by longstanding profitable companies who trade plates all day long, it's their bread and butter. So the obvious thing to do would be to ask them. I've seen people saying on other threads that "it'll be on there for years" and it's a good point, it might be. If you want to sell it quicker to put towards a current project then you might want to be flexible on the price.

That's why I said I was flexible on the price. I honestly didn't come on here trying to tout an overpriced plate. I have no idea the value of the plate anymore than anybody else on a forum. I asked the people who most closely resemble experts in the field, ie professionals who buy and sell them, and then stated the approximate valuation, and that I was flexible and open to sensible offers. I'd have taken £500 as I said.

When I bought that plate, I couldn't justify spending thousands and thousands on a plate which didn't require spacing alterations. We're not all made of money. Changing the spacing is a "fix it" offense which is not endorsable. It's a victimless crime, in fact it's not even a crime, it's not a criminal offense at all. Anybody who seriously takes issue enough to spend their time commenting that it's wrong to do so, should seriously consider if they've ever broken the speed limit, gone through a light on orange because they were late, nailed it from 0-60 which is considered driving without due care and attention...all of these things are worse and I would hazard a guess that on a Porsche forum, there isn't a single person who hasn't done one or all of those things. This makes you a complete hypocritic if you get on your high moral horse and make out that moving a digit, a non endorsable offense is something you should never do. Just spare me the hypocrisy. Unless of course you bought a Porsche, one of the most splendidly developed driving machines ever made, and have never put your foot down in it. In which case you are a complete and utter fool in my view.

I have owned around 30 cars, most of them enthusiast type stuff. I have never encountered a forum or community as negative as this one. I'm not just talking about this thread, I'm talking about the general talking down in so many threads I've read today trying to figure out if I did something offensive or if the forum just has an attitude.

I remember once driving a TVR down the road, spotting a bunch of TVRs in convoy and ending up in a pub with them all, total strangers, had a great time. The other day I was driving my Clio Trophy down the road when another one came along, chap pulled over and we both had a lovely chat about hillclimbing and his GT3. Popped on a Honda forum recently to ask a question about my wives S2000, was met with a warm welcome and lots of advice. Jag forum years ago when selling an E type, lovely people, not a negative word to say.

Popped on this forum to try to give a 911 owner looking in the plate section for a plate an opportunity to buy a plate which contains "911" and some other digits, for significantly less than the site which would otherwise list it. Every response is negative. I tried my arse off with my first response to use humour to keep it light but even that was seized upon.

I am properly autistic as I say, consequently I really struggle to have conversations about anything other than my "specialist subject", anyone familiar with autism will likely recognise that. My specialist subject so to speak is cars. Subsequently the most meaningful conversations I have, the ones which are least confusing and least stressful are with other car enthusiasts. When I decided to sell the plate, the reason I came to an enthusiast forum was partly because I like the idea of the plate being back on a 911, and partly because these interactions are the ones where I feel most normal.

The worst you expect is a polite "not for me" or if it's not for you I'd probably question why you're in the registration section reading and replying anyway, unless it's because you enjoy having a poke at people. If that is why and you do, you should grow up. The best you expect is "ah cool a fellow Porsche enthusiast, what spec was your 997, good luck with the Williams project"...even if there's no interest in the plate.

If these forums don't exist for like minded people to congregate and have positive exchanges, then what do they exist for?

I appreciate that this is a very long, quite critical post, but for me when social interactions go badly I really have to deconstruct it since it's a lifelong struggle to try to have natural conversations.

I just think that saying, newbies selling plates always get roasted, or whatever it was that was said, should ring alarm bells amongst the reasonable people here, assuming there are some.

People aren't newbies, they're just people. They have just as much value as you, whether you've subscribed to a forum for longer than them or not. To suggest that treating them with a different amount of respect is acceptable is nonsense.

Everybody comes here to "get" or take something. Be it advice, compliments on their car, the rewarding feeling of passing on knowledge, or to sell a plate. How you enter a community shouldn't be relevant if the community is an open minded welcoming one, which surely we would all aspire for it to be.

And finally, when you're being rude, or belittling somebody or devaluing their status because they're a newcomer, you should consider that you don't know who's on the other end of it and how it might affect them. Would you want it for yourself, or your spouse, or parent or child. Probably not.

This will likely get a string of more negative critical responses, so I'm not going to come back and look, it affects my mental health more than it probably should with a normal person and I can't really deal with it.

If I ever own another Porsche, this will be the last place I'll come visit. Maybe it's an established zeitgeist here, but it's bad, cancerous. You should all look at the amount of negative comments all over every section of this forum and ask yourselves if it's a positive welcoming force for good, or if it could be better. I know what I think.

Somebody earlier in the thread put it perfectly "you lot are brutal". That's nothing to be proud of as an adult.


Tom.

 

[MisterCorn]

Sorry you have had a bad experience Tom. This forum is largely populated by very enthusiastic owners who will bend over backwards to help each other with their cars and welcome newcomers. The number plate section is a wild area as it seems to attract people who have a plate which if you get the spacing wrong and look at it from the side it reads something vaguely 911. It is largely seen as a place for chancers to try to rip off genuine owners necause they think they have money. Some do, some don't but we aren't idiots.
Basically if you have a decent plate at a sensible price which doesn't need dodgy spacing it will sell.
I have been on this forum for nearly ten years. I like to think that I contribute as much as I take from it, we are all here for each other and to enjoy the cars.

MC

 

[spongebob squarepants]

I'm going to get this off my chest and then never bother this thread or forum again. It's quite possible that this forum and indeed thread is hillarious and in no way a series of negative, uninclusive, unwelcoming holier than thou w*nkers sh*t alking to newcomers for no reason other than to bolster their own egos. I am fairly profoundly autistic (not taking the p*ss I actually am) and I have been known to misjudge humour and sarcasm before, it's fairly common amongst autistic people. I have however shown this thread to a few people I know and they don't see the funny side or it either, and described it as a bunch of bullies.

Now, I read several posts before I made my initial post. Reason being I wanted to judge the tone of the forum before posting. I saw immediatey that not just in the registrations section, the tendency to reply with negative responses was far greater than the tendency to reply with positive responses. Some car communities are like that, others are much more welcoming. I almost didn't post because of it, but thought as long as I write the post well and make it obvious I am a fellow car, infact fellow Porsche enthusiast, people will see it for what it is. I wanted to sell the plate to a fellow enthusiast, I'd have taken £500 as a lowest offer if I thought it would end up on another 911 because it would make me smile.

What I wasn't doing was trying to sell a "gash plate" at an "inflated price". I did absolutely make the mistake of listing the plate with the spacing which I displayed it with, rather than that which is on the retention document. I didn't do this to be misleading, I just did it because that's how I think of the plate since that's how I saw it every day for years. Everybody at some point has made a mistake. I really wish I hadn't.

The plate isn't gash. To call something somebody else owns and has payed for gash is incredibly rude. If I told you your car was gash just because I had a better one or had seen a better one, you'd think it was incredibly rude. If I turned up to your house and told you how rubbish it was compared to one I used to own or lived in now, you'd presumably think I was one of the rudest people you'd encountered. Basic manners.

The plates value is also not inflated. How does one value a plate? Well, there is obviously an algorithm used by longstanding profitable companies who trade plates all day long, it's their bread and butter. So the obvious thing to do would be to ask them. I've seen people saying on other threads that "it'll be on there for years" and it's a good point, it might be. If you want to sell it quicker to put towards a current project then you might want to be flexible on the price.

That's why I said I was flexible on the price. I honestly didn't come on here trying to tout an overpriced plate. I have no idea the value of the plate anymore than anybody else on a forum. I asked the people who most closely resemble experts in the field, ie professionals who buy and sell them, and then stated the approximate valuation, and that I was flexible and open to sensible offers. I'd have taken £500 as I said.

When I bought that plate, I couldn't justify spending thousands and thousands on a plate which didn't require spacing alterations. We're not all made of money. Changing the spacing is a "fix it" offense which is not endorsable. It's a victimless crime, in fact it's not even a crime, it's not a criminal offense at all. Anybody who seriously takes issue enough to spend their time commenting that it's wrong to do so, should seriously consider if they've ever broken the speed limit, gone through a light on orange because they were late, nailed it from 0-60 which is considered driving without due care and attention...all of these things are worse and I would hazard a guess that on a Porsche forum, there isn't a single person who hasn't done one or all of those things. This makes you a complete hypocritic if you get on your high moral horse and make out that moving a digit, a non endorsable offense is something you should never do. Just spare me the hypocrisy. Unless of course you bought a Porsche, one of the most splendidly developed driving machines ever made, and have never put your foot down in it. In which case you are a complete and utter fool in my view.

I have owned around 30 cars, most of them enthusiast type stuff. I have never encountered a forum or community as negative as this one. I'm not just talking about this thread, I'm talking about the general talking down in so many threads I've read today trying to figure out if I did something offensive or if the forum just has an attitude.

I remember once driving a TVR down the road, spotting a bunch of TVRs in convoy and ending up in a pub with them all, total strangers, had a great time. The other day I was driving my Clio Trophy down the road when another one came along, chap pulled over and we both had a lovely chat about hillclimbing and his GT3. Popped on a Honda forum recently to ask a question about my wives S2000, was met with a warm welcome and lots of advice. Jag forum years ago when selling an E type, lovely people, not a negative word to say.

Popped on this forum to try to give a 911 owner looking in the plate section for a plate an opportunity to buy a plate which contains "911" and some other digits, for significantly less than the site which would otherwise list it. Every response is negative. I tried my arse off with my first response to use humour to keep it light but even that was seized upon.

I am properly autistic as I say, consequently I really struggle to have conversations about anything other than my "specialist subject", anyone familiar with autism will likely recognise that. My specialist subject so to speak is cars. Subsequently the most meaningful conversations I have, the ones which are least confusing and least stressful are with other car enthusiasts. When I decided to sell the plate, the reason I came to an enthusiast forum was partly because I like the idea of the plate being back on a 911, and partly because these interactions are the ones where I feel most normal.

The worst you expect is a polite "not for me" or if it's not for you I'd probably question why you're in the registration section reading and replying anyway, unless it's because you enjoy having a poke at people. If that is why and you do, you should grow up. The best you expect is "ah cool a fellow Porsche enthusiast, what spec was your 997, good luck with the Williams project"...even if there's no interest in the plate.

If these forums don't exist for like minded people to congregate and have positive exchanges, then what do they exist for?

I appreciate that this is a very long, quite critical post, but for me when social interactions go badly I really have to deconstruct it since it's a lifelong struggle to try to have natural conversations.

I just think that saying, newbies selling plates always get roasted, or whatever it was that was said, should ring alarm bells amongst the reasonable people here, assuming there are some.

People aren't newbies, they're just people. They have just as much value as you, whether you've subscribed to a forum for longer than them or not. To suggest that treating them with a different amount of respect is acceptable is nonsense.

Everybody comes here to "get" or take something. Be it advice, compliments on their car, the rewarding feeling of passing on knowledge, or to sell a plate. How you enter a community shouldn't be relevant if the community is an open minded welcoming one, which surely we would all aspire for it to be.

And finally, when you're being rude, or belittling somebody or devaluing their status because they're a newcomer, you should consider that you don't know who's on the other end of it and how it might affect them. Would you want it for yourself, or your spouse, or parent or child. Probably not.

This will likely get a string of more negative critical responses, so I'm not going to come back and look, it affects my mental health more than it probably should with a normal person and I can't really deal with it.

If I ever own another Porsche, this will be the last place I'll come visit. Maybe it's an established zeitgeist here, but it's bad, cancerous. You should all look at the amount of negative comments all over every section of this forum and ask yourselves if it's a positive welcoming force for good, or if it could be better. I know what I think.

Somebody earlier in the thread put it perfectly "you lot are brutal". That's nothing to be proud of as an adult.


Tom.

You should try pistonheads :roll:

 

[IMI A]

I'm going to get this off my chest and then never bother this thread or forum again. It's quite possible that this forum and indeed thread is hillarious and in no way a series of negative, uninclusive, unwelcoming holier than thou w*nkers sh*t alking to newcomers for no reason other than to bolster their own egos. I am fairly profoundly autistic (not taking the p*ss I actually am) and I have been known to misjudge humour and sarcasm before, it's fairly common amongst autistic people. I have however shown this thread to a few people I know and they don't see the funny side or it either, and described it as a bunch of bullies.

Now, I read several posts before I made my initial post. Reason being I wanted to judge the tone of the forum before posting. I saw immediatey that not just in the registrations section, the tendency to reply with negative responses was far greater than the tendency to reply with positive responses. Some car communities are like that, others are much more welcoming. I almost didn't post because of it, but thought as long as I write the post well and make it obvious I am a fellow car, infact fellow Porsche enthusiast, people will see it for what it is. I wanted to sell the plate to a fellow enthusiast, I'd have taken £500 as a lowest offer if I thought it would end up on another 911 because it would make me smile.

What I wasn't doing was trying to sell a "gash plate" at an "inflated price". I did absolutely make the mistake of listing the plate with the spacing which I displayed it with, rather than that which is on the retention document. I didn't do this to be misleading, I just did it because that's how I think of the plate since that's how I saw it every day for years. Everybody at some point has made a mistake. I really wish I hadn't.

The plate isn't gash. To call something somebody else owns and has payed for gash is incredibly rude. If I told you your car was gash just because I had a better one or had seen a better one, you'd think it was incredibly rude. If I turned up to your house and told you how rubbish it was compared to one I used to own or lived in now, you'd presumably think I was one of the rudest people you'd encountered. Basic manners.

The plates value is also not inflated. How does one value a plate? Well, there is obviously an algorithm used by longstanding profitable companies who trade plates all day long, it's their bread and butter. So the obvious thing to do would be to ask them. I've seen people saying on other threads that "it'll be on there for years" and it's a good point, it might be. If you want to sell it quicker to put towards a current project then you might want to be flexible on the price.

That's why I said I was flexible on the price. I honestly didn't come on here trying to tout an overpriced plate. I have no idea the value of the plate anymore than anybody else on a forum. I asked the people who most closely resemble experts in the field, ie professionals who buy and sell them, and then stated the approximate valuation, and that I was flexible and open to sensible offers. I'd have taken £500 as I said.

When I bought that plate, I couldn't justify spending thousands and thousands on a plate which didn't require spacing alterations. We're not all made of money. Changing the spacing is a "fix it" offense which is not endorsable. It's a victimless crime, in fact it's not even a crime, it's not a criminal offense at all. Anybody who seriously takes issue enough to spend their time commenting that it's wrong to do so, should seriously consider if they've ever broken the speed limit, gone through a light on orange because they were late, nailed it from 0-60 which is considered driving without due care and attention...all of these things are worse and I would hazard a guess that on a Porsche forum, there isn't a single person who hasn't done one or all of those things. This makes you a complete hypocritic if you get on your high moral horse and make out that moving a digit, a non endorsable offense is something you should never do. Just spare me the hypocrisy. Unless of course you bought a Porsche, one of the most splendidly developed driving machines ever made, and have never put your foot down in it. In which case you are a complete and utter fool in my view.

I have owned around 30 cars, most of them enthusiast type stuff. I have never encountered a forum or community as negative as this one. I'm not just talking about this thread, I'm talking about the general talking down in so many threads I've read today trying to figure out if I did something offensive or if the forum just has an attitude.

I remember once driving a TVR down the road, spotting a bunch of TVRs in convoy and ending up in a pub with them all, total strangers, had a great time. The other day I was driving my Clio Trophy down the road when another one came along, chap pulled over and we both had a lovely chat about hillclimbing and his GT3. Popped on a Honda forum recently to ask a question about my wives S2000, was met with a warm welcome and lots of advice. Jag forum years ago when selling an E type, lovely people, not a negative word to say.

Popped on this forum to try to give a 911 owner looking in the plate section for a plate an opportunity to buy a plate which contains "911" and some other digits, for significantly less than the site which would otherwise list it. Every response is negative. I tried my arse off with my first response to use humour to keep it light but even that was seized upon.

I am properly autistic as I say, consequently I really struggle to have conversations about anything other than my "specialist subject", anyone familiar with autism will likely recognise that. My specialist subject so to speak is cars. Subsequently the most meaningful conversations I have, the ones which are least confusing and least stressful are with other car enthusiasts. When I decided to sell the plate, the reason I came to an enthusiast forum was partly because I like the idea of the plate being back on a 911, and partly because these interactions are the ones where I feel most normal.

The worst you expect is a polite "not for me" or if it's not for you I'd probably question why you're in the registration section reading and replying anyway, unless it's because you enjoy having a poke at people. If that is why and you do, you should grow up. The best you expect is "ah cool a fellow Porsche enthusiast, what spec was your 997, good luck with the Williams project"...even if there's no interest in the plate.

If these forums don't exist for like minded people to congregate and have positive exchanges, then what do they exist for?

I appreciate that this is a very long, quite critical post, but for me when social interactions go badly I really have to deconstruct it since it's a lifelong struggle to try to have natural conversations.

I just think that saying, newbies selling plates always get roasted, or whatever it was that was said, should ring alarm bells amongst the reasonable people here, assuming there are some.

People aren't newbies, they're just people. They have just as much value as you, whether you've subscribed to a forum for longer than them or not. To suggest that treating them with a different amount of respect is acceptable is nonsense.

Everybody comes here to "get" or take something. Be it advice, compliments on their car, the rewarding feeling of passing on knowledge, or to sell a plate. How you enter a community shouldn't be relevant if the community is an open minded welcoming one, which surely we would all aspire for it to be.

And finally, when you're being rude, or belittling somebody or devaluing their status because they're a newcomer, you should consider that you don't know who's on the other end of it and how it might affect them. Would you want it for yourself, or your spouse, or parent or child. Probably not.

This will likely get a string of more negative critical responses, so I'm not going to come back and look, it affects my mental health more than it probably should with a normal person and I can't really deal with it.

If I ever own another Porsche, this will be the last place I'll come visit. Maybe it's an established zeitgeist here, but it's bad, cancerous. You should all look at the amount of negative comments all over every section of this forum and ask yourselves if it's a positive welcoming force for good, or if it could be better. I know what I think.

Somebody earlier in the thread put it perfectly "you lot are brutal". That's nothing to be proud of as an adult.


Tom.

Its tongue and cheek and a joke over the years about private plates on this forum Tom.

Pls do not take it seriously or personally. Theres a tradition to yank chains of anyone who puts a pp up for sale on 911UK. Puerile but these boards sort of are an opportunity for old codgers to be back in the school playground - occasionally they are funny promise!

Its nice plate and no doubt someone with a 911 will want it