Monday, April 25, 2005
Time to break the law |8:36 AM| I've got some old T-shirts that I need to sell. It's not exactly cost effective to sell them online at the moment. Hell, it's not easy either, I would say that it isn't even moderately difficult. It's pretty goddamn hard to turn a profit with these shirts. With Eyor's birthday coming up, as well as a block party that has already grown out of control a full two weeks before it begins, I decided to try selling them on the street. Knowing I needed a permit, I sought out the legal info.
I got in touch with the City Of Austin Clerk, who got me in touch with the permits folks, who got me in touch with the vendor hotline, which turned out to be an answering machine.
Hell, why not just replace all of these people with machines? I suppose humans would need to listen to these answering machines, but I'm digressing.
According to the long list of specifications, the cost of a right-of-way vendor permit is a $150 application fee, plus a $400 annual fee. Seeing as that would cut into my best-possible-scenario profits by about a gazillion percent, I have decided to break the law.
I have a feeling that if the cops show up to either of the previously mentioned events, they'll be too busy chasing naked hippies on bicycles to care whether or not I've got an official permit. Besides, I'm going to be on private property for both of the planned sales days.
This post was delayed by me trying to find pictures of the protest bike rides that are often in Austin, but I couldn't find anything compelling enough (read: naked or strangely dressed riders in big clusters).
Time to break the law |8:36 AM| I've got some old T-shirts that I need to sell. It's not exactly cost effective to sell them online at the moment. Hell, it's not easy either, I would say that it isn't even moderately difficult. It's pretty goddamn hard to turn a profit with these shirts. With Eyor's birthday coming up, as well as a block party that has already grown out of control a full two weeks before it begins, I decided to try selling them on the street. Knowing I needed a permit, I sought out the legal info.
I got in touch with the City Of Austin Clerk, who got me in touch with the permits folks, who got me in touch with the vendor hotline, which turned out to be an answering machine.
Hell, why not just replace all of these people with machines? I suppose humans would need to listen to these answering machines, but I'm digressing.
According to the long list of specifications, the cost of a right-of-way vendor permit is a $150 application fee, plus a $400 annual fee. Seeing as that would cut into my best-possible-scenario profits by about a gazillion percent, I have decided to break the law.
I have a feeling that if the cops show up to either of the previously mentioned events, they'll be too busy chasing naked hippies on bicycles to care whether or not I've got an official permit. Besides, I'm going to be on private property for both of the planned sales days.
This post was delayed by me trying to find pictures of the protest bike rides that are often in Austin, but I couldn't find anything compelling enough (read: naked or strangely dressed riders in big clusters).
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