Number 13 Registration Plates - Unlucky for Some?

Pressure is mounting on the government of Ireland to omit the use of the number 13 on vehicle registration plates. The system of vehicle registrations in Ireland is very similar to that of Great Britain; the registration mark contains a year identifier relevant to the year the vehicle is first registered. That means under current [...]

Number Plate Theft & Car Cloning – Don’t Be a Victim

If you approached your car tomorrow morning and discovered that your number plates were missing, you could be forgiven for not taking it so seriously. After all, it is hardly the crime of the century and the thought of notifying the police probably wouldn’t cross your mind. You, like many other car owners may simply [...]

Is it Fair to Say All Number Plate Dealers are Crooks?

I have thought very carefully before publishing this latest blog post. It is not necessarily a good idea to draw attention to the bad practices which sometimes take place within the industry that you are involved in. The thinking is that by highlighting the wrongdoings, you make people apprehensive towards buying your product or service. [...]

Do Private Number Plates Make Good Gifts?

It is often said that we subconsciously give gifts that we would like to receive. Whilst this statement may be true, it does not necessarily mean that our loved ones are going to enjoy receiving the same gifts that we secretly desire.

My many years of buying and selling private number plates has taught me that [...]

Displaying Your Car Number Plates Correctly

Having invested wisely in your new personalised number plates, the last thing you want to do is have your registration confiscated. Who, you may be wondering, can confiscate your personalised registration? The Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA); the keepers of records for drivers and vehicles in Great Britain will take your personalised registration away [...]

New Office Address & Telephone Number for Simply Registrations

May I take this opportunity to apologise to you if you have unsuccessfully tried to contact Simply Registrations over the past couple of weeks. There are times in our lives when a combination of events results in things not quite going to plan. The previous fourteen days definitely threw up a few challenges. We have [...]

Same-Day Number Plate Transfers

We have touched on this subject before but I would like to take the opportunity to highlight what we mean exactly when we talk about same-day number plate transfers. If a client is looking to buy one of our stock personalised number plates, we can complete the transfer and have the number plates fitted to [...]

Private Number Plates - Because I Can

I had an interesting chat with a client last week. He has a philosophy that you get from life what you expect of it. His business is doing really well at the moment because as he says, he expects it to be doing well.

There is a lot of doom and gloom out there at the [...]

simplyreg.com is now simplyregistrations.co.uk

In the previous blog post, we mentioned how the search engines seem to be favouring UK businesses with .co.uk domain extensions. As a result the Simply Registrations web address, or domain, is www.simplyregistrations.co.uk starting from today.

Please accept our apologies if you have tried to visit the Simply Registrations website over the past few days and [...]

Behind the Scenes at Simply Registrations

There has been quite a lot going on behind the scenes at Simply Registrations recently. The website is now running on a new host after we outgrew the old webhosting package. As a result more cherished number plates than ever before are now available to view online at simplyreg.com.

There is another change that will be [...]