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"I thought I was going to make an easy buck, shortchange the seller and make a killing selling it to someone else - turns out I was the one making someone else a killing", basically.
Very little sympathy.
If the people he bought it from thought it would definitely double in value in a few years then why would he think they'd sell it to him for that price??
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/mans-anger-after-spending-15000-28845832
Spent over £15k but later given valuation of £5k. Who spends their inheritance on things like this?
He probably put it on his uninsured car reading 5T0NED, or 5KUNK, janky font, tinted windscreen, trail of weed smoke, and then wondered why he got stopped and arrested.
If you want to be a dealer, drive a beaten up Mondeo estate or whatever that shit heap Walter White had.
My brother was gifted a 72k plate from my parents
It makes people cope and seethe for sure, his car has been keyed out of spite. Although I suspect they don't know the true value of the plate but rather by seeing both the plate and the car.
A method to avoid inheritance tax if you stick a very expensive plate on a cheap car then leave the car in your will. Only the cars value is accounted for.
Same. I think he imagines himself upper class, and that is his smoking jacket. Possibly just a way to fondle his belly while out n about. Could be he doesn’t see why he should get dressed he is a man of leisure.
For sure. It’s exploitative, prob pay them a few quid with one of the aims being to get as bad a photo as possible. It’s a shame people are duped into it.
According to the article, he just had cancer removed from his skull. Obviously that's a damn shame whether or not he's an idiot, but I'm pretty sure the dressing gown is playing up the 'and I'm a cancer patient!' element. 😬
It's like asking for a refund on some old stocks or shares.
Because of the timeframe, I have doubts that the purchase 14 years ago has much to do with his current financial situation. He rolled the dice and lost, such is the risk.
It’s not even that.
Regtransfers doesn’t even try to market itself as an investment advisor! I own a few private plates (dateless with my/my son’s/my daughter’s initials) and paid a few hundred quid for each. Mine is on my car and the other two are on retention for when my children will be able to start driving in just over ten years. I have absolutely no expectations that they will go up in value, they were just an impulse buy when I had some extra disposable income. Personally, I think if you’re paying more than 3 figures for a private plate you’ve got far more money than sense.
"It's affected my life and my lifestyle. I could have invested that money in a savings account and got 5% interest. I have ended up losing my home, moving in with a friend in a housing association, and my lifestyle is nowhere near what it was before."
Seems like this might have been one of a long string of bad financial decisions.
And still referring to a flipping novelty number plate as ‘an investment’, all the way down! Surely everything that anyone could possibly think of as an investment is covered in disclaimers these days, but probably not number plates, because surely… nobody’s that stupid…
You live in a rented home and inherit £15k+ so the best decision is to buy a licence plate for £15k because someone tells you it will increase in value. You then complain it hasn’t gone up in value and go to the press but can’t be bothered to get dressed.
Some people cannot hold onto money, the novelty of it means they don’t don’t know what to do with it.
Mr James says he paid the £15,132 figure after "knocking down" a sales rep from an £18,000 asking price. He regrets not getting an independent valuation at the time
>I could have invested that money in a savings account and got 5% interest.
Can someone break this down for me? Are there other investment routes besides personalised number plates?
"a dealer gave him a valuation of £5,000 to £6,000."
Who will then sell it for substantially more to someone else with the same story that it will be worth more in years to come. That's quite normal.
If you want a better price put it into an auction or sell privately, call other massage parlour companies they would buy it and make him a profit. If only they hadn't heard the story in the news about it being valued at £5-6k.
The ol’ geeza Barry from down the road. His one shot at being a part of history was this compo-rtunity, and he couldn’t even jazz himself up more than a dressing gown.
Not to mention the “I bought a personalised plate just like every toff, now I’m mad because I only did it to impress random people and now they might clue on to the fact that I’m a scuzz-ball. Seeing as the 3-week unwashed dressing gown clearly wouldn’t have suggested that perhaps my ideology’s probably aren’t as crisp and clean as I’d like people to think” demeanour…
"Got the press coming over to take a photo of me pulling a face like a slapped arse. Best make sure I look like I haven't bathed in a week and put on my finest gravy stained bath robe."
To be fair, Martin Lewis is always never telling anyone to invest in number plates. So you can understand why someone, who didn’t get a valuation, wouldn’t have a clue how much something isn’t worth.
So he’s in the paper moaning that no one will give him £30k for his perv plate?
Maybe I’ll write in crying over the fact no one wants to buy my £1000 mouldy banana
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"I thought I was going to make an easy buck, shortchange the seller and make a killing selling it to someone else - turns out I was the one making someone else a killing", basically. Very little sympathy. If the people he bought it from thought it would definitely double in value in a few years then why would he think they'd sell it to him for that price??
He had to sell his house after spending an inheritance on the numberplate, which was 15k, in 2015. How the fuck does that even add up
No, he moved from privately rented accommodation into housing association accommodation.
Ah, yeah it was further down, I gave up trying to scroll as website is trash on mobile. Makes a bit more sense then.
If you have an iPhone, turning on reader view often helps with these terrible sites if you want to just quickly get through the text
hahaha
Sounds about right for someone in a Jaaaaaag
“I wanted to be a dick, turns out I’m an idiot instead”
And you have more sympathy than me.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/mans-anger-after-spending-15000-28845832 Spent over £15k but later given valuation of £5k. Who spends their inheritance on things like this?
Idiots.
Idiots who think they’re making an iNvEStmEnT
Ridiculous innit. But in other news, would you like to buy a whisky barrel?
Does the serial number read BOOBS when you turn it around?
Not a whole one, but if you would consider some kind of share scheme I'd buy part of one.
I’m interested in the middle half
Another shifty investment 'opportunity'? 🤔😄
Who spends _any_ money on a vanity plate, let alone 15 fucking k?
My old weed dealer. The even funnier thing is that at the time he didn't even have a driving license
Did he put it on his bicycle
He probably put it on his uninsured car reading 5T0NED, or 5KUNK, janky font, tinted windscreen, trail of weed smoke, and then wondered why he got stopped and arrested. If you want to be a dealer, drive a beaten up Mondeo estate or whatever that shit heap Walter White had.
One of my old dealers drove a Smart car. No one was pulling him over in that.
Smart guy
My brother was gifted a 72k plate from my parents It makes people cope and seethe for sure, his car has been keyed out of spite. Although I suspect they don't know the true value of the plate but rather by seeing both the plate and the car.
A method to avoid inheritance tax if you stick a very expensive plate on a cheap car then leave the car in your will. Only the cars value is accounted for.
not correct (based on family experience)
If the pair I knew who did are anything to go by - idiots?
Doubt he'd get even 5k for it, it's so unpersonal.
He should count himself lucky he doesn't know anything about NFTs.
Semi retired fat bald boomers who bought their homes for £7.88 back I'm 1982 and have too much spare money.
If his missus gives a few more happy endings they'll soon get their money back.
Sadly she died of Corona in the pandemic. That's really sad, but I'm not surprised....
And he has "skull cancer" apparently. He hasn't had much luck.
Compoface photos fascinate me. So this one, why is he not dressed and instead standing next to a car in his dressing gown?
Same. I think he imagines himself upper class, and that is his smoking jacket. Possibly just a way to fondle his belly while out n about. Could be he doesn’t see why he should get dressed he is a man of leisure.
Im a dirty stained dressing gown... Oh how the gentry have fallen ..
more than half the time these stories are presented as "laugh at the plebs" pieces, the disgusting tabloids they appear in know what they're doing
For sure. It’s exploitative, prob pay them a few quid with one of the aims being to get as bad a photo as possible. It’s a shame people are duped into it.
They don't pay them anything imo
In general yeah, but this guy owns a luxury Jaguar and chose to pose in a dressing gown...
oh don't get me wrong, I have zero sympathy
!! and the band-aid on his forehead? There's a whole 'nother story to be told here
According to the article, he just had cancer removed from his skull. Obviously that's a damn shame whether or not he's an idiot, but I'm pretty sure the dressing gown is playing up the 'and I'm a cancer patient!' element. 😬
Yeh, it’s very weird that at no point did either he or the ‘journalist’ think that getting dressed for the photo would be a good idea.
OK. I skimmed the article but that escaped me. But yeah, in combination with the bathrobe it's a bit too much.
Skull cancer. Just been operated on.
He's an elite infinite dan martial artist and that is his special arse-kicking uniform.
It's not even got the number plate on it.
Probably due to his cancer. I'm a poor ill old man who's been scammed look
Because he spent so much money on the number plate that he now can't afford clothes!
14 years ago he bought it and expected a refund cos it’s not worth what he speculated. Compoface learnt about market value this day.
It's like asking for a refund on some old stocks or shares. Because of the timeframe, I have doubts that the purchase 14 years ago has much to do with his current financial situation. He rolled the dice and lost, such is the risk.
It’s not even that. Regtransfers doesn’t even try to market itself as an investment advisor! I own a few private plates (dateless with my/my son’s/my daughter’s initials) and paid a few hundred quid for each. Mine is on my car and the other two are on retention for when my children will be able to start driving in just over ten years. I have absolutely no expectations that they will go up in value, they were just an impulse buy when I had some extra disposable income. Personally, I think if you’re paying more than 3 figures for a private plate you’ve got far more money than sense.
MA55 AGE Save the click
Took me too long to find this.
"It's affected my life and my lifestyle. I could have invested that money in a savings account and got 5% interest. I have ended up losing my home, moving in with a friend in a housing association, and my lifestyle is nowhere near what it was before." Seems like this might have been one of a long string of bad financial decisions.
And still referring to a flipping novelty number plate as ‘an investment’, all the way down! Surely everything that anyone could possibly think of as an investment is covered in disclaimers these days, but probably not number plates, because surely… nobody’s that stupid…
Expecting to get 5% on a savings account in 2015 or indeed any year between then and 2023 does reveal a little about his knowledge of finance.
Like "investing" in a number plate instead of using it as part of a deposit for a host so he could stop renting.
Yes that 750 quid a year would have kept him in fresh dressing gowns
I know exactly how he feels. I bought the plate "GULL1BL3" for £18k in 2013 and it hasn't appreciated at all.
Fat, old bloke buys registration plate MASS AGE. Some sort of nominative determinism right there.
Maybe an excellent gift for a committed Thai sex tourist? It's not a very classy plate, for sure 😂. If there is such a thing
CL455Y
But is it really, though? 🤔😉
YE55SSS
You live in a rented home and inherit £15k+ so the best decision is to buy a licence plate for £15k because someone tells you it will increase in value. You then complain it hasn’t gone up in value and go to the press but can’t be bothered to get dressed. Some people cannot hold onto money, the novelty of it means they don’t don’t know what to do with it.
a fool and his money are soon parted.
MA55 AGE. >!So not a happy ending then.!<
Ha! Very good.
he lives in his Hitchhiker's Guide world where you wander round in your dressing gown and have a nice cup of tea
Dumb bloke, but respect going in the paper in a bathrobe.
He should of invested in a towel instead
Should have
Frankly, he doesn’t look like the type of cool froody dude who would know where his towel was.
^The ^information ^provided ^by ^RegTransfer’s ^friendly ^team ^of ^sales ^ninjas ^does ^not ^constitute ^a ^personal ^investment ^recommendation ^or ^tax ^advice. ^Past ^performance ^of ^a ^number ^plate ^is ^not ^an ^indication ^of ^its ^future ^performance. ^The ^value ^of ^your ^number ^plate ^or ^any ^income ^derived ^from ^it ^may ^go ^down ^as ^well ^as ^up.
Well, this certainly didn't have a happy ending...
Bravo
So he made an investment without due diligence. Then complains about it afterwards. Sounds like a sore loser to me.
A lot of vulnerable people are looking at that website... Really?
No, he means assholes.
What a bell end. He wants his money back after having the plate for 9 years. He actually thought this was some kind of investment?
At least have the decency to get dressed.... smh
Could have at least made the effort to get dressed for his photo.
It just had to be a crappy Jaguar too. Box of tissues and trilby on the back shelf probably.
Everyone buys a novelty plate for more than they're worth, because they're actually worthless.
Surely T0553R would have fit him better
Who on earth thinks that buying personalised number plates is a good investment strategy?
His money deserved a better home.
Are you the villain out of Dune
Why does every Jag driver look like this
how in the name of fuck does this fat sack of shit expect any sympathy? Hilarious, I hope worse happens to him yet
Mr James says he paid the £15,132 figure after "knocking down" a sales rep from an £18,000 asking price. He regrets not getting an independent valuation at the time
>I could have invested that money in a savings account and got 5% interest. Can someone break this down for me? Are there other investment routes besides personalised number plates?
Gonna tell my kids this is Ronnie Pickering
Registrations are only worth as much as someone’s prepared to pay for it
More importantly…..Why did he get dressed?!
This guy definitely pays for a 'MA55 AGE'.
"a dealer gave him a valuation of £5,000 to £6,000." Who will then sell it for substantially more to someone else with the same story that it will be worth more in years to come. That's quite normal. If you want a better price put it into an auction or sell privately, call other massage parlour companies they would buy it and make him a profit. If only they hadn't heard the story in the news about it being valued at £5-6k.
KN08HED
Bugger, if only I’d have met him before he’d bought it I’d have gotten him in on the ground floor of the magic beans business.
The ol’ geeza Barry from down the road. His one shot at being a part of history was this compo-rtunity, and he couldn’t even jazz himself up more than a dressing gown.
Not to mention the “I bought a personalised plate just like every toff, now I’m mad because I only did it to impress random people and now they might clue on to the fact that I’m a scuzz-ball. Seeing as the 3-week unwashed dressing gown clearly wouldn’t have suggested that perhaps my ideology’s probably aren’t as crisp and clean as I’d like people to think” demeanour…
So he literally is scrimping and scraping to get by BUT won’t sell this shit for 5-6 grand and help himself? Bellend
It's the Mass Age of caveat emptor, silly.
He looks like he just sent his nephew to kill Maud’dib
"Kill them all!"
Like that guy that bought the first tweet. Fucking worthless.
alternative title: "man discovers how all investments work"
The Tony Soprano of Llanharan
"Got the press coming over to take a photo of me pulling a face like a slapped arse. Best make sure I look like I haven't bathed in a week and put on my finest gravy stained bath robe."
"Investments always come with risk" My investment didn't pay off! I demand a refund!! Ughhhhhhhhhhh!
Not one of Ric Flair’s best robes.
What an utter twot.
What an absolute bell.
To be fair, Martin Lewis is always never telling anyone to invest in number plates. So you can understand why someone, who didn’t get a valuation, wouldn’t have a clue how much something isn’t worth.
He could've got dressed for the journalist coming over. Have some self respect.
Things are worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it....
Wow that guy's life in general has been a complete tragedy. Pretty sad. Feel like the number plate is the least of his worries.
So he’s in the paper moaning that no one will give him £30k for his perv plate? Maybe I’ll write in crying over the fact no one wants to buy my £1000 mouldy banana
He's the B055
Why is he outside in a grotty robe and dirty bandage on his head? What emotion is he trying to envoke?