PL8M8 - Get a Date Thru Your Plate

So, car number plates are romantic.

Yes, we thought that would get your attention. Although Regtransfers.co.uk always finds a nice batch of love-themed numbers for customers looking for Valentine or anniversary gifts, the wider population probably wouldn’t include car registrations in their list of the top-ten ways to find the partner of one’s dreams.

Little do they realise…

Euan Williamson’s car dating website, www.mypl8.co.uk, is attracting members and grabbing headlines. No, not car-dating as in dating a car.

This is an ingenious scheme that enables people to contact each other with no more than a car registration number for reference.

It works like this:

1. Girl sees attractive boy (or vice versa) in car
2. Girl sends a text message to that car’s registration via the special Mypl8 text number
3. Boy receives text and replies
4. They meet, get married and live happily ever after.

Well, it’s not quite that simple. It is necessary to join the scheme before using it, and steps 3 and 4 as listed above are perhaps a little speculative, but the fact remains that it is a clever system, and really quite simple to use.

Euan says, “We are staggered by the take-up of MYPL8 and now have clusters of members in almost every corner of the UK. We don’t promise to help people find the partner of their dreams but it is happening. Others are making friends or simply chatting with owners of similar cars, especially vintage and more unusual models, or reporting potentially serious vehicle defects like faulty brake lights to fellow members.”

Euan, whose own car registration is, appropriately, V8 LUV, is careful to point out that the scheme is secure and that Mypl8 does not ever give out members’ personal details. All initial contact is conducted through Mypl8.co.uk, and no car registrations or mobile phone numbers are divulged. Users decide for themselves if and when they want to give out personal information.

All users have to be signed up as members first, and Mypl8 holds mobile phone and car registration details. Members’ registration numbers are verified and their true identities thus established. What is more, all member activity is logged, so people can feel safe when they use the scheme. Problem users can be reported and banned.

This innovative ‘pay as you go’ social tool does not charge members for receiving text messages. Charges apply only for sending. The website is not plastered in adverts and there is no joining or membership fee.
It’s not surprising that the service is attracting many enthusiastic members.

Euan says, “We’ve even heard cases of members getting their registration numbers printed onto t-shirts so they can be contacted when they’re not in their cars!”

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