Door to door charity fundraising...

ivylinn

lincroft1710 wrote: »

In past 2 weeks have had 5 collection bags. 3 were from genuine charities, Help the Aged, BHF, Children's Society who will all also take books (of which I have plenty which are no longer wanted) and bric a brac as well as clothes (ours are disposed of when they are worn out and then become cleaning rags, so very, very rarely have any).

Who are these people with all these surplus clothes that fill these bags weekly.

And as for "companies" who advertise collection but don't provide bag.....

Yes, I have also noticed that some of the collections are businesses with no registered charity number, I will not donate to them.

I got a charity bag, put my clothing donation and in left it outside on the day stated.
It was repeatedly not collected and the donation got transferred from charity bag to charity bag.
Shelter was the only one that bothered to come back to collect it.

Dreamnine

Chuggers on the street I generally just ignore; but if they get in my way, impede my progress along the pavement then, yes, I tell them to fcuk off.

Dr.Rock

I've noticed a massive proliferation of these lately but have never had to say more than "I'm not interested," or "No thanks." to get them to leave me alone. Occasionally they'll be from a charity I already donate to but even if they weren't I could say that and they wouldn't know any different.

If I do ever get any hassle I'll just say I already give to a number of charities and ask who they think I should stop donating to in order to give to their charity: Children with cancer, starving children in the 3rd world, Blind and deaf people, homeless people,etc, etc until they walk off sheepishly.

Abbafan1972

There has been an increase in door chuggers round my area. Quite often on a Saturday there are groups of 3 or 4 people smartly dressed people hanging round various parts of my street, which are a dead giveaway as Jehovahs.

Last week I had a lady knock my door, she tapped on the glass, I rushed to the door as I was expecting a delivery from BHS and it was only to ask if I interested in being an Avon rep. I don't know why but people just knock the letter box or knock on the glass, as I have a fully working doorbell and they all seem to have an aversion to using it.

Yesterday I had 2 charity bags shoved through my letter box, one from Lifeboats and one from Blind childrens society. I regularly get those slips about clothing collections etc, the ones that don't provide any bags.

I recently spotted some people on the other side of my road knocking on doors, they were wearing high vis jackets with RSPCA on the back. I didn't answer the door when they got to me, I doubt if they were genuine.

geordieracer

RobertoMoir wrote: »

Here's a fact for you. A chugger once knocked me up collecting for a cancer charity, supposedly. I declined to contribute and got told in a very sneering manner: "You don't care about cancer then, just wait until it affects your family and see if you change your mind".

Both my parents died of cancer. So how about you tell me how that is supposed to make me feel about having anything to do with any cold caller or town centre tin rattler from charity in the future?

I'm sure there are some wonderful chuggers out there, real salts of the earth and all... but like any group you're let down by the bad apples, sorry.



Funny, I'll be in my house laughing about the ignorant git who just knocked on my door and I'll be the one who's in the warm. Oh, and I've never told anyone to "f off" my doorstep unless they've declined a couple of polite invitations to leave first.

I hope you punched them fully in the face.. Orrible.


Mind you they are a bit thick - my part of my street only has house on one side of it for some way so the team came down, spread themselves out then when shooed away another 3 mins later came and done the same thing. Then another. Do they not see who has been to whos door..

Wintermute

"Sorry, no thanks!", "no, thank you, I'm really not interested" or "sorry, I'm already donating as much as I can afford to various charities" said firmly, but politely with a smile seem to do the trick for me. If I'm not busy or in a rush and they still want to tell me about their charity without expecting a donation I'll listen as their just doing their job and a lot of these charities are worthy causes.

If I'm in a rush and there's charity workers on the street I'll pick up my pace a little, normally if you look like your in a rush they wont hassle you and when they do one of the above lines usually works. Sometimes they will follow you for a few meters, but they're not stupid, if you show you're not interested they'll quickly realise it and go onto somebody else. There's no need to be rude to them, they're just doing their jobs and most of them are working for good causes, you expect to do your job without verbal abuse so let them do theirs.

Saying that the minute they bring religion into their cause they've lost me, if they tell me to do the Christian thing, threaten me with damnation, ask me to say Gouranga or in anyway try and force their religion down my throat all bets are off and any charity associated with a religion wont be getting money from me.

As for people coming to your door, I've noticed them recently, but I've put that down to me being off work for a few weeks before I start my new job, it's the first time I've really been at home during the day for about 3 and a half years. I've had a few people come to the door with charity boxes, my reply is always the same, "sorry I have no cash", I don't generally cary cash and I'm not about to go spend 5 minutes searching my house for loose change.

If a charity is wanting cash there and then I'll sometimes donate (depends on the charity and if I have any on me), but rattling your charity box directly at me will just !!!! me off, I know you're there, I can usually see what your collecting for, making rattling noises hasn't impressed me since I stopped wearing nappies! Still, I'd sooner donate cash than sign up for a DD.

People really need to lighten up, do people really think there would be people getting paid at least £7 an hour to stand on the streets if charities weren't making money from it? They make plenty of money from this, sure the companies are too, but they're getting donations they wouldn't otherwise be getting so the money they're bring to the charities ARE benifiting them. A lot of the people that come to your door asking for money are unpaid volunteers trying to help on their own time, but obviously a lot of people are too busy posting her to give them a minute of their time even if they're not willing to donate.

You're well within your rights to say no to them, but be polite! In my experience they'll accept your answer and move on, but they have a right to work without getting verbal abuse from people who think they're better than them simply because they have "real" jobs.

tesphen wrote: »

I love having a laugh with my teamsters at ignorant idiots like yourself after I ring your doorbell.

Lots of people have posted about this quote, maybe I misread it, but the first time I read it, I took the meaning as he'll laugh about the people that's rude to him which is fair enough, I've worked in a customer facing roll and I've had people call me then shout and swear at me and tell me to f off, after a while you end up joking and laughing with your collegues about these customers as that's about all you can do.

I've never worked on the streets, cold called, worked door to door or worked for a charity, but I've had my sure of rude and verbally abusive customers. People really need to get over themselves if they think it's okay to tell people to f off just because they knocked on their door or asked them something on the street. These people are making an honest living and a large amount of the profit they generate is going to a good cause, the majority of us can't say the same.

RobertoMoir

Wintermute wrote: »

People really need to lighten up, do people really think there would be people getting paid at least £7 an hour to stand on the streets if charities weren't making money from it?

Oh sorry. I need to lighten up about the subject do I? Well how about you read my previous post and then come back and tell me what part of that experience specifically I should be 'lightening up' about.

WhiteHorse

I have a 'No Cold Callers' sign on the door.

That's clear enough and polite enough. Those that ignore it get a finger pointed wordlessly at the sign.

If they still continue ... well, fair game is all I can say ...

WhiteHorse

Dreamnine wrote: »

Chuggers on the street I generally just ignore; but if they get in my way, impede my progress along the pavement then, yes, I tell them to fcuk off.

Yes, I've had a few aggressively blocking my way. I just grimace at them and for some reason they think better of it.

I had my front teeth knocked out years ago. Look a right bruiser sometimes ...

amus

tesphen wrote: »

Some of you people are so rude! I myself am a chugger and proud of the work I do saving lives every single day. Some of you clearly don't understand what you're banging on about, so I thought I'd go to the trouble of registering and explaining for you.

First of all, we're not going door to door to guilt trip you or force you into signing up. Some people are simply not aware of the work we do and we're just on the street to explain what we the charity stand for and promote. We're only taking up two minutes of your time to do so. Its really not that much of an effort to give up two minutes just to listen to what we have to say, even if you're not in a position to make a donation with us. I mean, how do you even know you want to give if you don't even know who we are?

As for not wanting to give your bank details, all we need to make a direct debit, because we are a charity and different rules apply to us, is your bank account number and sort code. They're written on the bottom of every cheque you right for God's sake! If you went down to the bank with just your bank account number and sort code to get some money out they'd laugh you out of the place.

And whats all this crap about us getting paid £300 to £400 a week? We get paid about £7 an hour. We're not paid on commision, because that'd encourage hard selling which we don't practice. We work because we care about the charity. If we were interested in making £300 to £400 a week we'd go work in sales. And none of your money goes towards our wages. Your money goes straight to the charity, we're paid by gift aid.

So there are the facts, just so you know them. And please don't tell us to f off because it won't discourage us, we'll just be stood at the bottom of the road having a good laugh about the ignorant git we've just had at the door.

Errm quite a lot of people withdraw money with just a bank account and sort code, just thought Id clear that up! Very irresponsible to give out false information.