License Plate Warning !

ctvpa

ctvpa

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Greetings,

I just bought another car and was looking for Year of Manufacture plates. I saw one advertised on eBay. It was quite expensive, but looked great, was a low number 3 digit plate; and he said in the posting the it cleared the RMV for ROM plates. If all else failed he offered a 14 day money back guarantee.

I got the plate and went to registry to find out the plates were no good, and had not been for years.

He refused all my emails.

I finally got eBay involved, they threatened to close his account for excessive negative feedback. But it was 2 weeks of hell waiting at the RMV for 2 hours, emails, and eBay forms.

I finally got my money back. He has now changed all his auctions to "All sales final, no returns or refunds"

Please do not buy anything from License Plate King from Castleton, Vermont.

He has had many complaints, and is noted for doing this sort of thing.

Please beware.
 
thanks for the warning on this character
its always a good idea to check online or call your dmv to see if a yom tag is still open before purchasing.
 
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You need to be a little more specific on this seller's I.D.

I can't find anything close to "License Plate King" - Am I missing something??
 
Hi ctvpa,

It is people like you who take the time to demand righteousness that can keep America great.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
 
Good for you. Persistence and principal will outwin crooks every time. Too bad it take soooooooo much effort but worth it in the end.
 
ctvpa said:
Greetings,

I just bought another car and was looking for Year of Manufacture plates. I saw one advertised on eBay. It was quite expensive, but looked great, was a low number 3 digit plate; and he said in the posting the it cleared the RMV for ROM plates. If all else failed he offered a 14 day money back guarantee.

I got the plate and went to registry to find out the plates were no good, and had not been for years.

He refused all my emails.

I finally got eBay involved, they threatened to close his account for excessive negative feedback. But it was 2 weeks of hell waiting at the RMV for 2 hours, emails, and eBay forms.

I finally got my money back. He has now changed all his auctions to "All sales final, no returns or refunds"

Please do not buy anything from License Plate King from Castleton, Vermont.

He has had many complaints, and is noted for doing this sort of thing.

Please beware.
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His name is Chris Fretta and he's ALPCA member #8203. If you're also a member of ALPCA you can email the complaint chairman and they'll throw him out of the club pronto if he doesn't make good on a deal with a fellow member. If anyone has a problem with him, I'd highly recommend spending the $35 for a membership and then dragging him over the coals with the complaint process. It really makes me mad when someone does this kind of stuff because it reflects poorly on all of us.

Oh yeah, he bent me over a few years ago too on a low number Alabama porcelain plate. He advertised it as "nice original" but when it arrived it had a silver dollar sized hole through the middle that had been filled with bondo. It was such a low number that I decided to keep it anyway, but I learned a very expensive lesson about him...
 
Not Hijack the thread, but what's the deal on YOM plates? I bought a 1930 Pa. plate and was going to put it on the front of my coupe. In my mind there was nothing wrong with this. However, Some things I've read on FB have made me reconsider. What is "Cleared"?
Do I have to do something special to display this? Pa Plates (One plate state) are displayed on the rear. I would be putting this on the front. What could go wrong, if anything?
Terry
 
I put Ohio 1941 plates on my Ford. Here in Ohio you take the plates to the BMV and they will issue a new registration. The new registration uses both the old plate number plus the current number, They ask that you keep the modern plates with the car in case it becomes an issue with a law officer. I keep them out of the way in the trunk. I have never heard of anyone here having a problem. I am sure in any state you can't just put on vintages plates as they would not match the registration
 
Terry said:
Not Hijack the thread, but what's the deal on YOM plates? I bought a 1930 Pa. plate and was going to put it on the front of my coupe. In my mind there was nothing wrong with this. However, Some things I've read on FB have made me reconsider. What is "Cleared"?
Do I have to do something special to display this? Pa Plates (One plate state) are displayed on the rear. I would be putting this on the front. What could go wrong, if anything?
Terry
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Cleared means someone else isn't using that number, such as maybe the same number on a current year plate. That's what I also had to watch for in MN, also a one plate state for old cars only.

If you use the plate on the front and your registered plate on the rear I'd bet you would be OK, unless you get a tough cop that wants to push the issue.:eek:

BTW, I never checked beforehand to make sure my 1928 plates were clear, but I got lucky.
 
Terry said:
Not Hijack the thread, but what's the deal on YOM plates? I bought a 1930 Pa. plate and was going to put it on the front of my coupe. In my mind there was nothing wrong with this. However, Some things I've read on FB have made me reconsider. What is "Cleared"?
Do I have to do something special to display this? Pa Plates (One plate state) are displayed on the rear. I would be putting this on the front. What could go wrong, if anything?
Terry
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terry,
nothing can go wrong by putting it on the front in pa..
if you want to rgister it for the back you can check the numbers to see if it is still open on the website
 
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One good straight forward thing about NYS is that a set of YOM plates become the plates for registration purposes. NY is still a 2 plate state though.As far as I know there are no restrictions on the use of these plates as there can be on Historical. The YOMs here are renewed every year and I have no restrictions on insurance. I didn't mean to hi-jack this thread if I did.
 
In N.H. we don't have to worry about clearing them.Pre-73 we were issued a new set every April,alternating between green and white.If you wanted to keep your number,you could register early and get a new set with the same number.Otherwise the number would fall into disuse and be re-issued the following year,but with a different year embossed on the plate.There are lots of old plates running around out there with the same number,but not the same year.I have a set of 54's on a Studebaker,and the guy I got them from is running the same number on his 55 Chevy,his 56 Chevy,and his 57 Chevy.His dad was one of the few that applied early and kept the same numbers year after year.They all have the same number,but the dates and colors are different,not considered the same plate.When N.H. first started the YOM plate program we could only use them on the front.We did have to clear those,because somebody COULD use the mate to it on another car.I don't know how serious they were about that though.I had a plate certified for my 31,and a couple of years later I took another one in to be certified for another 31.I accidentaly took the mate to the one I already had in use.The girl walked to a different computer,punched in the numbers,and OK'd it.It wasn't until I parked the two cars side by side I noticed what I had done.I mentioned it to a DOT officer that was here to issue some trailer numbers for something I'd built.He just shrugged,no big deal,plates are just so you can be found if we need to.Both numbers would come back to me,and if by chance somebody across the state wound up with one of my plates,there could only be two possibilities to check out for that year plate.
 
Joe Immler said:
I put Ohio 1941 plates on my Ford. Here in Ohio you take the plates to the BMV and they will issue a new registration. The new registration uses both the old plate number plus the current number, They ask that you keep the modern plates with the car in case it becomes an issue with a law officer. I keep them out of the way in the trunk. I have never heard of anyone here having a problem. I am sure in any state you can't just put on vintages plates as they would not match the registration
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I'm in Ohio too. I have historical plates on the front and rear, then on the other tail lite I have a 1929 plate for looks since it was the year of the car.
 
How to sidestep the problems with DMV:
just buy a nice YOM plate for each old car and run with them.

I keep the legally registered plate (Horseless Carriege/Antique Vehicle whatever your state calls them) in the car in case I must prove it's registered.

27 years with no problems this way; even got a speeding ticket in our 37 Plymouth and the cop didn't even ask for registration, he just wrote the '37 plate number on the ticket like it was real.

your results may vary, but I'll continue to take my chances with this system.......
 
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I know it's valuable in a collecting world but sometimes this "low number" thing gets out of hand. I like the strange plates like "Ash hauler" or "farm tractor". There are two guys who usually present each year at the AACA winter get together, and they have all kinds of strange plates like that.

I've been painting plates for people that are going to YOM here in PA. It makes me happy to give someone a nice shiny plate back when they gave me a rusty old looking one. They are not perfect like the $150 profesional ones, but I think they look pretty good.
 
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