Please buy Christmas Cards DIRECT from the charity - high street stores - RIP OFF

borders_dude

Last year I watched two lads throw a cardboard box into some overgrown hedges. After about ten minutes I went over and looked in the box. it was full of brand new shrink wrapped charity cards!

So I took them into my office and phoned the charitys head office. Advised that I had this box of 50 packs of 10 or 20 I cant remember and where they can collect them.

By Christmas eve they still hadnt come for them so I just put them away in a cupboard. This year I shall be using them instead of having to buy some!

Im well chuffed, its nice to get something for nothing!

papadoc

Here at Zoë's Place Baby Hospice would always prefer our supporters to buy direct from us and I'm pleased to say although we also sell them at various markets in and around Liverpool most of our Christmas card sales come from our Newsletter promoting them & other fundraising Christmas items as here:-

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/zoes-liverpool__W0QQ_armrsZ1.

big5

I remember looking at the charity cards in Woolworths a few years ago and realising that only 10% went to charity - I put them back and went across the road to the Cancer Research shop and bought my cards from there instead.

Just bought some from there again yesterday - they have a nice range this year and 100% of the profit goes to the charity.

Can't post the link to view them online cos I'm still a newbie, but they're easy to find on the Cancer Research UK website.

moonrakerz

big5 wrote: »

I remember looking at the charity cards in Woolworths a few years ago and realising that only 10% went to charity - I put them back and went across the road to the Cancer Research shop and bought my cards from there instead.

Just bought some from there again yesterday - they have a nice range this year and 100% of the profit goes to the charity.

Can't post the link to view them online cos I'm still a newbie, but they're easy to find on the Cancer Research UK website.

There is a lot of misunderstanding on this subject.

The "Charity for Distressed MPs" is selling cards in its shop at a £1 each. This worthy charity had to pay for everything to do with these cards, design, transport, printing, storage. Come Dec 26th they could have huge numbers of these cards left, which they have to throw/give away or sell at a loss in the Jan sales.
It is highly likely that the final profit margin on these cards is only 5p.

Woolies were selling cards at (say) £1 each, 10p of that went to charity. The charity did absolutely NOTHING to get that money, it was a gift from the purchaser - passed on by Woolies. The charity carried NO risk whatsoever here, they didn't even have to have a shop - Woolies will send them a cheque !
If Woolies then made 15p profit for themselves - so what ? If Woolies have to give all 25 p to the charity they just aren't going to bother selling charity cards at all.

Buying which card benefits the Charity most ???

10% of the selling price is money. 100% of nothing is.........................

PS: For Woolies read WH Smith, or Clinton or, or, or.....

tescodave

well cleared up moonrakerz. I agree if the shop in question isn't going to make a profit, whats the point? I know one could argue that its 'the season of good will' but we have to face up to the fact that we can't have all the perks of capitalism without paying a price.

bradgirl

I think that if charities didn't want you to buy anything except their own cards, then they wouldn't give their names to the cards in other retailers. As moonrakerz says, it is no effort at all to the charities if they get 10% of the purchase price from Christmas cards in other stores. According to Tesco, this was £700k just from them last year!