[EllieJelly96]

A few kids in my school sell chocolate bars and stuff.
One guy does 100g of cola bottles for a pound.
But the really money is this guy who seels KitKtats/Wispas for 50p. He buys them from Costco I think. He has made a bomb from it, like enought to buy a new fred perry bag and dre beats and loads of clothes etc. He's also just bought a Mac Book Pro off eBay and sharing the price with his Dad but is paying like £200 toward it.

Go online to a wholesaler type website, buy a bunch of stuff in bulk and then buy some little food bags. Split the sweets up and boom, £1 a go and youre in there.

For example: http://monmoreconfectionery.co.uk/store/

[agoetcherian]

(Original post by Tobedotty)
No, I believe him. He did it for around 3 school years every day - easily enough time. He even used to pay off teachers with chocolate bars so that they wouldn't rat him out and put him in trouble.

So he sold £5 worth every single day for three years, and that's before how much it costed him to buy the product in the first place. How many people bought these? Again, I'm not convinced at all.

[Nfergs]

I am obsessed with fruit sweets e.g. Starburst and Fruit Pastilles!

But I used to love these:

[Tobedotty]

(Original post by agoetcherian)
So he sold £5 worth every single day for three years, and that's before how much it costed him to buy the product in the first place. How many people bought these? Again, I'm not convinced at all.

Your sums are wrong, you're at school for something like 180 days a year, if he had £5 a day in revenue he'd have made nearer £3000 in revenue in total. Also, consider that if we're going at 5 Kit-Kat chunkies for £1 in the supermarket, and selling them for 50p each, thats £1.50 profit per packet sold, so to hit his target he'd need to sell 3 packets.

Consider now that my school has 1500 students and that there are no vending machines, and nobody is allowed out at break time and lunch time and I think you'll find the numbers stack up. In reality he sold more (£20 profit) some days and less on others. It depended how the guy felt and how much he wanted to buy. He didn't bring books to school, just chocolate bars.

[agoetcherian]

(Original post by Tobedotty)
Your sums are wrong, you're at school for something like 180 days a year, if he had £5 a day in revenue he'd have made nearer £3000 in revenue in total. Also, consider that if we're going at 5 Kit-Kat chunkies for £1 in the supermarket, and selling them for 50p each, thats £1.50 profit per packet sold, so to hit his target he'd need to sell 3 packets.

Consider now that my school has 1500 students and that there are no vending machines, and nobody is allowed out at break time and lunch time and I think you'll find the numbers stack up. In reality he sold more (£20 profit) some days and less on others. It depended how the guy felt and how much he wanted to buy. He didn't bring books to school, just chocolate bars.

But you're missing several variables. Bank holidays, inset days etc. Also, days he was absent. 1500 students, and I'm willing to bet at least 80% wouldn't bother doing "under the table" deals for chocolate bars - whether they bring their own lunch and chocolate, or were scared because it seemed dodgy, whatever.

So to hit his target, he's have to sell 15 kit kats per day. That's still a phenomenal amount. Consider that very few people would buy one every day (whilst given that some may), there aren't many people left to buy them. To make £20 profit he'd have to sell upwards of 60 bars, so I'm willing to bet that wouldn't happen very often.
I'm not doubting that he made some good money from it, but £2000? Doubtful. Either way, if he put this amount of effort into studying then perhaps he wouldn't need (technically illegally) sell chocolate bars.

[limu]

HARIBO Golden gummy bears. Depressingly good.

[tehforum]

(Original post by agoetcherian)
But you're missing several variables. Bank holidays, inset days etc. Also, days he was absent. 1500 students, and I'm willing to bet at least 80% wouldn't bother doing "under the table" deals for chocolate bars - whether they bring their own lunch and chocolate, or were scared because it seemed dodgy, whatever.

So to hit his target, he's have to sell 15 kit kats per day. That's still a phenomenal amount. Consider that very few people would buy one every day (whilst given that some may), there aren't many people left to buy them. To make £20 profit he'd have to sell upwards of 60 bars, so I'm willing to bet that wouldn't happen very often.
I'm not doubting that he made some good money from it, but £2000? Doubtful. Either way, if he put this amount of effort into studying then perhaps he wouldn't need (technically illegally) sell chocolate bars.

Trust me, you're being too pessimistic.

15 kit kats is nothing.

One person out of 1500 will buy multiple kit kats - and that's already a huge percentage off a small amount.

[Tobedotty]

(Original post by tehforum)
Trust me, you're being too pessimistic.

15 kit kats is nothing.

One person out of 1500 will buy multiple kit kats - and that's already a huge percentage off a small amount.

I gave up trying to argue it, the guy is unreasonably stubborn and insists that something that I saw with my own eyes at my own school was impossible.

[nivenmcm]

I absolutely love black jack and aniseed sweets!