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Scalpers booking up driving test slots and re-selling them for hundreds of pounds
Sir Woke XR Re… 01 Jun 22 11:13
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That’s right, essential public resources in such short supply that there’s a thriving black market for them. All brought to you by the ruling Conservative Party in:

BROKEN BRITAIN.

BORIS’ BRITAIN.

BREXIT BRITAIN.

YOUR BRITAIN. THE BRITAIN YOUR VOTES MADE.

THERE IS A MASSIVE BACKLOG OF DRIVING TEST SLOTS SUCH THAT THEY ARE NOW BEING RESOLD BY SPIVS AND SPECULATORS ON A THRIVING BLACK MARKET. THIS IS THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT’S FAULT FOR BEING CHEAPSKATE TOOLS.

If you take all of the tickets for the deli counter at Sainsburys you can probably sell them for hundreds of pounds on the black market. I'm sure I've seen the touts lurking near the pork pie section.  

POLITE REMINDER: STOP VOTING CONSERVATIVE IMMEDIATELY, AND NEVER DO SO AGAIN.

THE PARTY THAT fookS THE COUNTRY UP, TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME.

So it seems to work like this.

You can only book a test through the DVSA which has an online reservation form that needs to be completed with an actual drivers details.

You can search the DVSA website for free to find previously booked test slots that have been cancelled and book a test then.

Some canny computer geeks have developed software that can scan those forms and find convenient test slots for their customers for a small fee (sometimes as little as £19).

Some grifting driver instructors are offering that service to their instructees with a £300 commission attached. 

NO THE OP IS EXACTLY CORRECT AS PER WHAT HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE PRESS - DRIVING TEST DATES ARE BEING BOOKED AND RESOLD BY PROFITEERS.

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so OP is full of shit?  
 

Heh, I’m with Laz here - nothing about what AmI said means that he is “full of shit”. The secondary market for driving test slots wouldn’t exist if there were enough driving test slots!

So some cute driving instructors are charging a premium/convenience fee for booking spare test slots on behalf of named students.  The students are free to book the test themselves at the cost price but don't because they are thick.  What has that got to do with the government? 

If Ami's summary is right there doesn't seem to be any ability to block book an entire day of tests and then black market all the slots. 

They're just acting as agents for the feckless students. You can't blame the instructors for wanting to get their pupils through their tests. It's not their fault there aren't enough slots and they don't tend to put people in for tests if they're not ready. They'd much rather charge them for ten more lessons.

The students are free to book the test themselves at the cost price but don't because they are thick.
 

/don’t have access to the computer software required to instantly book tests; which has been developed due to the insane amount of demand for tests, which exists due to underprovision from the state

It’s not that they are “feckless” or “thick” you deeply unpleasant lawyer, it’s that there is a massive backlog of tests which creates demand for these wacky schemes

Sir Woke XR Remainer FBPE MBE01 Jun 22 11:42

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I don’t know how you can either book multiple slots or re-sell them. But you can.

You haven't shared anything that talks about booking multiple test slots.

Agree that the fault of the test backlog sits with the Government, but this chancey agent behaviour could exist at any point, backlog or not.  It's like people who used to pay for the EHIC card when it was available for free if you bothered to find the right website. 

You should be able to book at the cost price in a reasonable time-frame. You shouldn’t have to pay a fee to a third party to get a test within 6 months, whether that fee is £19 or £300. This situation exists due to underprovision on the part of the only provider of driving tests - the state. 

Much like everything else that’s shit about the state atm, e.g. ambulances that never arrive, the blame for this situation can be placed directly in the laps of the governing party and their slavish defenders 

The agency fee to book it sooner (£19 or £300) isn't actually compulsory. 

 

If you are not lazy 17 yr old khvnt and use your computer to look for cancelled driving tests instead of porn you don't have to pay any more than the standard fee.

The article in full on this is on the bbc website. The block bookers are commiting a crime as they have tO input provisional driving licence numbers to book tests which they can then swap with the driving licence number of the person who wants the test. So they are inputting provisional licence numbers without the consent of those individuals. 

Ambulances that never arrive and backlogs in oublic services can all be pinned directly on the NHS

It was they who have been so insistent that they would not treat anyone apart from covid patients for two years, that meant all the office working civil servants had to go on furnish and sit at those doing fvck all for two years.

That's right, Laz, Brexit caused driving test shortages, and the Conservatives caused COVID-19. I see that the fat has finally migrated from your arse to the vacant space where your brain should be.

The agency fee to book it sooner (£19 or £300) isn't actually compulsory. 
 

I know it’s not “compulsory” you weapon, but it makes getting a test in a reasonable time-frame significantly more possible, necessary because the useless tw@s in government have failed to address the backlog

I know being a doctor makes you think you’re an expert on everything and people should applaud your outsize, entitled, ego but even so you’re not covering yourself with glory here.  

This thread is so ROF

Laz: says thing 

ROF: you talk shit Laz

Laz: no, I do not

ROF: yes look at this link [posts link that completely supports what Laz said]
 

Laz: That completely supports what I said.

Majority of ROF: *walks off whistling and trying to look innocent*

Minority of ROFers: er Laz was right actually

3-ducks: heh

 

I read this whole thread going ‘why do you need to pay £300 to test drive a car’ before finally realising what it was about.

Why is this an issue so close to OP’s heart? He is 17?

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