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 ?

[Peter Pedant]

o and he hadnt counted the cost of the app
because you would be using it for other purposes...
( fixed overhead but you can still whack it in as a partial expense)

sharp - - very sharp to me

[Tuvok]

Not very clear.

Does the app cost £100 If so yikes!

Is the customer buying the app and then spending more on the shopping?

Or is the driver paying the £100 for the app - a bit like a franchise?

Driver does the shopping and pays for it. Risky!

Driver delivers it, customer pays driver cost of shopping and a delivery fee, both to the driver.

Pay is £20. Who is paying who?

Getting to confusing now - perhaps if explained with names it might be clearer.

[THECORBYLOON]

I wasn't sure if the messages cost £100 on the app but they actually cost only £50 in the store.

That way, there is a 100% mark-up out of which those running the app took £30 in profit and gave £20 to the driver for collecting them.