online tax disc purchase crashed

online tax disc purchase crashed

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SamR380

725 posts

119 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Seems to be up and running, without colours or graphics. Only took 30 secs once I was in!

dxg

8,122 posts

259 months

TotalControl

8,017 posts

197 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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boobles said:
TotalControl said:
Finally applied and accepted. After attempt eleventy million.
They probably cherged you for that many attempts aswel! hehe
Oh bks. <runs off to call his bank to check>

PDT1

26 posts

148 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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TotalControl said:
Finally applied and accepted. After attempt eleventy million.
Have just attempted to use the site again, and surprise, surprise its down again.

Message on the front page says it is unavailable due to unprecedented demand across their online services.

Oh well, try again later.

TotalControl

8,017 posts

197 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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PDT1 said:
TotalControl said:
Finally applied and accepted. After attempt eleventy million.
Have just attempted to use the site again, and surprise, surprise its down again.

Message on the front page says it is unavailable due to unprecedented demand across their online services.

Oh well, try again later.
Mine did it, but at snail pace. I think I was lucky.

sixspeed

2,060 posts

271 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Woman at work had to tax her car today and only managed to get on by about 10 o'clock this morning. No luck after trying for 3 hours last night.

Noticed there was no option for monthly direct debit though (wasn't this a big new thing?).


LeighW

4,362 posts

187 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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sixspeed said:
Woman at work had to tax her car today and only managed to get on by about 10 o'clock this morning. No luck after trying for 3 hours last night.

Noticed there was no option for monthly direct debit though (wasn't this a big new thing?).
It wouldn't work last night at all for me, but it did eventually work at 9am today.

I think the direct debit option starts on 1st November.

oldaudi

1,306 posts

157 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Excuse me for being thick. But surely the same number of people who tried to get their tax last night at the last minute is the same number of people that do this every month.

Or, is it those people that no longer applied by post who are now forced to get it online that pushed it over the edge. I simply dont understand the rush to get it last night.





Edited by oldaudi on Wednesday 1st October 15:41

confused_buyer

6,610 posts

180 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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oldaudi said:
Excuse me for being thick. But surely the same number of people who tried to get their tax disc last night at the last minute is the same number of people that do this every month.

Or, is it those people that no longer applied by post who are now forced to get it online that pushed it over the edge. I simply dont understand the rush to it last night.
I think it is a new site. The new one is on the "gov.com" site and is a different design to the old one. They have been running in parallel for the last month or so. Probably the first start of the month where everyone gets directed to the new one.

oldaudi

1,306 posts

157 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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A that makes more sense. So the number of applicants is probably about the same but he back end for the new site isnt up to the job. Got it. Cheers

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Call me cynical, but down the road parked up was a VOSA car with an ANPR camera setup, now this in itself isn't unusual but normally they do it nearer the middle of the month.

Had to go through the ball ache of phoning to SORN one of my cars this morning after giving up trying to do it online last night.

V8A*ndy

3,695 posts

190 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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oldaudi said:
Excuse me for being thick. But surely the same number of people who tried to get their tax disc last night at the last minute is the same number of people that do this every month.

Or, is it those people that no longer applied by post who are now forced to get it online that pushed it over the edge. I simply dont understand the rush to get it last night.
Extra numbers I'm sure due to the tax offices in N.I. shutting up shop.

Did mine just over two weeks ago at the post office before going on holiday because I just knew this would fk up.



Slinky1989

324 posts

181 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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BBC News reporting that there are an extra 30,000 visitors to the site today compared to last year: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29430979

B'stard Child

28,324 posts

245 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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oldaudi said:
Excuse me for being thick. But surely the same number of people who tried to get their tax last night at the last minute is the same number of people that do this every month.

Or, is it those people that no longer applied by post who are now forced to get it online that pushed it over the edge. I simply dont understand the rush to get it last night.
I would have thought peak months for tax applications are March and Sept bearing in mind a registration date based system........

So surprised by an October peak!

decadent

2,134 posts

174 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Mound Dawg said:
Welshbeef said:
Its public sector they do 9:30-4pm ....
Except on Fridays when it's 2.30 pm.
Brilliant, I need to get myself a public sector job - who actually wants to spend their life at work anyway. Presume you guys speak from experience; do you seriously get a decent work life balance?



CoolHands

Original Poster:

18,496 posts

194 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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so coming home from work a short while ago.... - the police have one of them major anpr operations going on that they occasionally do! Today by coincidence.. Hmmmmmm what are the odds coffee

Konan

1,817 posts

145 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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I think I'm missing something here.

1) There's no SORN option on the new system. They've taken the old system away.

2) Where is this monthly direct debit thing? I was actually going to make use of it in a 'pay as you go' fashion as I have a couple of cars that may well not see the public highway for periods of longer than a month.

Konan

1,817 posts

145 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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I've found the SORN. Some of the links on the site take you to the wrong page!

pingu393

7,719 posts

204 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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I've been busy on PhotoPaint and have made my own taxdisc to use as a reminder.

I'm not going to let my taxdisc holder go to waste smile.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,230 posts

234 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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pingu393 said:
I've been busy on PhotoPaint and have made my own taxdisc to use as a reminder.

I'm not going to let my taxdisc holder go to waste smile.
Me too biggrin