For me, unless it's something very unique, i've never really seen the point. Not if it's gonna cost you thousands anyway, for something which maybe slightly resembles your own name or something.
I know people who have spent a shit load of cash on them, yet the car they actually own isn't even that great in the first place. I think they'd have been better off putting the cash towards a new car rather than waste it on what is after all only a dumb licence plate.
Last year the UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency raised £67m from the sale of personalised number plates.
DVLA plates sold at auction:
