A Maths Question

[CW1]

Having a debate with a driver on a delivery app, & can't agree on how much a customer pays if in cahoots with the driver.

He says "you use your own bank account and spend 100 on app, the product costs you 50 and the pay is 20 you will get 70 pounds reimbursement to you therefore you have just spend 30 pounds you are only paying the app's profit, £30"

I don't see how his logic includes the cost of buying the goods, but he won't have it (spouting about an accountancy Masters degree ! LOL)
I say spend £100 on app, then spend £50 on goods, total cost £150. Then get £70 back, overall cost £150 - £70 = £80.

I say that the overall cost is £80, he insists it's £30.
Am I going mad ?

[bednobs]

is the fee for buying access to an APP that you can use in the future?

[New Judge]

This is not a maths question. It is question about the terms & conditions of whatever is being used to buy these goods.

On the face of it, it seems you are paying £150 for £50 worth of goods and then you get £70 back (from somewhere - possibly). Somebody is £80 to the good and if I saw such an offer I would not touch it with a bargepole.

[nicebloke1]

Why anyone would even consider getting involved in any such contract like this, just puzzles me.

[klazomaniac]

'accountancy Masters degree' and S/he is a delivery driver ?

Run away now !

[Prudie]

I don't even understand your maths to start with.
It looks like you are saying you pay out 100 + 50 and get back 20 + 70 which is 150-90 = £60
As for what the other guy is saying no idea...

[nicebloke1]

Sorry to but into the thread. Prudie. It appears I didn't explain
to well. The leg of lamb, I've paid many times for meat, and still the alarm goes off, even security at the doors are getting to the point of ignoring them.

[Prudie]

Haha really? Is that what you meant? I wondered why you might think I was a shoplifter when I couldn't be further from that character if I tried :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

Who's getting what? For instance, who gets the £70 reimbursement and where is it from?

[CW1]

The whys & wherefores of how this app works is irrelevant, it is a maths question. I never said the driver had a degree, is actually his wife apparently, who agrees with his maths. That's why I mentioned it.
If it helps, people use this app to have someone do their shopping. The driver does the shopping, pays for it & is then reimbursed that cost & paid a fee for their time (& mileage) on top.
This driver is trying to say that if the customer is in cahoots with the driver, they'll end up getting the goods much cheaper. I say they'd get them cheaper by the amount of the fee (if the driver does it for nothing !). He says it'd be cheaper by the actual cost of the goods plus the fee, ie. £70 (Prudie, the £70 reimbursed already includes the £20 fee, you've added it again, hence £80).

[nicebloke1]

Prudie, yes that is what I meant!! :0> But I must admit to fooling the self checkout once without knowing until I got home.

[THECORBYLOON]

Are you saying you spend £100 on the app AND you spend £50 on messages?

[CW1]

The customer orders & pays for shopping thru' the app. The app send the list to a driver who then buys shopping. Driver sends receipt to app who then pay the driver the receipt total plus a fee on top to cover their time & mileage.
Not relevant really, it's a question about maths (!) but does that make it any clearer ?

[CW1]

P'raps I should clarify too ... the prices on the app the customer orders from are inflated (plus there are delivery fees on top) so when the receipt & driver fee are paid, the app still usually make some profit.

The figures I used are just an example, are in no way indicative of general fees 'cos - it's irrelevant ! It's a general maths question.

[Canary42]

I'm afraid I don't understand the arithmetic in the OP at all, it's all Greek to me, and I've got a degree in Classics.

[bobbinwales]

WHo gets the product? Why are they in cahoots- in what way?
Isnt it easier just to consider what happens if the driver is the only person involved- driver orders and pays and gets his fee

Just dont follow it . Why spend £100 (do you mean load?) on app then order goods for only £50

[bobbinwales]

Basically we cant comment on the maths untill we can follow what your saying would happen

[Old_Geezer]

Best thing to do isn't to argue but to get the driver to take his wallet out, create whatever piles of money needed to demonstrate the activity, and then get him to run through it moving the money from pile to pile at each stage to discover why you each have a different understanding.

[Prudie]

There is no maths, just words. We need equations :-)

[Prudie]

And I've no idea how I made that big space either.

[Peter Pedant]

terribly garbled
outgoings - 100, app prod 50 'pay' 20 total 170
'in' - -70

cost to you 100 - -

garbled because 'pay' I have taken to be pay off for the cahoots altho I am not sure how being in cahoors works here

and yeah I can see why he is a MA ( accts) delivery driver

Apparently a 2:2 in accounting isnt worf diddly squat and you are advised to do a book keeping course ( see above) - and DON'T reader do an AAT course - cost £2250 and in my cohort they failed....91% !
of which I er was one