car tax fine

Ant555

The article says he sold more than 20,000 of them at £4 each.

He is charging £4 to look up a cars details on the DVLA web site and print off a nifty coloured reminder - I wonder if the people buying them think he has some magic access to the DVLA computer system?

If only I could think of an idea for a web site that would get loads of people paying a few £'s for something...
Like that 16 year old girl that was on the news earlier this year that made £50,000+ on a web site where 200,000 Chinese couples paid around 50p to ask her opinion what a good English name would be for their babies!

Ant555

AdrianC wrote: »

Because, clearly, writing "Tax expires 31/3/17" on a piece of paper and shoving it in the windscreen yourself is FAR too hard for Daily Mail readers.

Yes far too hard for at least 20,00 people.
The article says he sold more than 20,000 of them at £4 each.

He is charging £4 to look up a cars details on the DVLA web site and print off a nifty coloured reminder - I wonder if the people buying them think he has some magic access to the DVLA computer system?

If only I could think of an idea for a web site that would get loads of people paying a few £'s for something...
Like that 16 year old girl that was on the news earlier this year that made £50,000+ on a web site where 200,000 Chinese couples paid around 50p to ask her opinion what a good English name would be for their babies!

AdrianC

Ant555 wrote: »

The article says he sold more than 20,000 of them at £4 each.

It's a Daily Mail article.

He "made £100k profit", selling them at £4/ea. Clearly, his overheads are zero. Or they're guessing...

rich13348

AdrianC wrote: »

It's a Daily Mail article.

He "made £100k profit", selling them at £4/ea. Clearly, his overheads are zero. Or they're guessing...

4*20000=80000 not 100000
Maths maybe not your strong point?

AdrianC

rich13348 wrote: »

4*20000=80000 not 100000
Maths maybe not your strong point?

Have you actually bothered clicking on the link to that Wail article?
From the subhead bullets...
"Schoolboy made £100,000 by selling £4 tax disc renewal reminders"
"...after making £100,000 from his road tax reminder business."
"...Harvey's family said the schoolboy has sold more than 20,000 of his paper tax disc reminders for £4 each."
"The reminder discs cost £4 a time... His £100,000 profit..."