Unless you are an avid reader of SmartManiacs you won’t know the story. I am so shocked, I had to put it here.
I recently complained to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) about the pricing structure of the personalised number plates being sold by the DVLA.
The old style plates started at £250, the new style plates (53, 04, 54 etc) started at £399.
I complained that although the same admin was done and the same paperwork was sent out, the new plates were £150 more expensive, how could that be?
Not much more than a week later I got an email from the DVLA saying that “after a review of their prices” they would be bringing the base rate of the new style plates down to £250 to match the price of the old style plates.
This starts from today (from the 28th April 2008).
I have checked a random list I made before today and they have in fact, gone down as they said.
Sweet, can’t say fairer than that. I wish all battles were so easy to win.