Door to door charity fundraising...

fantasia322

qetu1357 wrote: »

Perhaps cos it ain't true?

Tell me which charity pays its chugger £150?

its not the chugger that gets paid this amount. Its the marketing organisation that employs the chuggers who are paid between £69 and £120 for every direct debit of £8 per month or over.
The marketing organisations are the ones that set the limit.
The chugger has no choice, and they wont accept less because, if they do, they DO NOT get paid.

However the attrition rate for this kind of fundraising is 70% this means that 70% of people signed up cancel their dd within 3 monthsHell yeah

bargainbetty

tesphen wrote: »

Its not wether I get paid or not, I get paid if I sign nobody up, I'm just not allowed to sign people up for less than £8 a month. Thats just the rules. I could sign you up and it wouldn't get through validation and then I'd get in trouble for wasting a DD form.

Validation? We aren't talking about credit checks, this is money for charity - saving lives, as you pointed out! If a person wants to give money to a charity, and the charity rejects it because it is less than they would ideally like, then that charity deserves to lose donors.

Charitable giving is just that - charitable. No obligations, out of the goodness of the donor's heart. If your teamsters reject people from giving, then surely you have to question the charity's motives.....

Unless..... you are talking cobblers?

qetu1357

fantasia322 wrote: »

its not the chugger that gets paid this amount. Its the marketing organisation that employs the chuggers who are paid between £69 and £120 for every direct debit of £8 per month or over.
The marketing organisations are the ones that set the limit.
The chugger has no choice, and they wont accept less because, if they do, they DO NOT get paid.

However the attrition rate for this kind of fundraising is 70% this means that 70% of people signed up cancel their dd within 3 monthsHell yeah

I know.

I was asking the poster for evidence to back up his assertion.

augustsmummy

I can't abide door knocking charity collectors. We had one last year that barged in through the door, :eek: past my husband, with a box of chocolates which he gave my 3 year old daughter. Saying they were a gift for her, she got all excited.

He then invited his "bodyguard" (well thats what he called her anyway) to join him in our kitchen.
They then gave my husband the hard sell, saying it is the only way to donate, that donating online costs the charity too much money, and that we needed to give all our details to them to ensure all our money went to the charity. :think:

My husband calmly explained that we do not give our details out, but if he would leave the info pack we would have a read and donate at our leasure.
That was met by another hard sell about how much it costs the charity if we paid online. "So you had best give us your details now, so we can set up a payment scheme!"

At this point I (had been listening from the livingroom - baby was asleep on me) went in to the kitchen and said "Sorry we are not in a position to donate right now."

With that he said "Give me those!" and grabbed the chocolates from my daughter and stormed out. She was so upset. Poor thing. :mad:

So I contacted the Red Cross via their website. They said it is actually cheaper for the charity if we donate online, and that the chugger had no right to miss lead us.
He has now been removed from door to door fund raising, and we were sent a full appology from a manager.

I was fuming, not just because of my daughter being upset, but because of the heavy handed techniques he used. Very uncharitable!

It has put me right off donating to the red cross as a result. My pennies go elsewhere now!

lincroft1710

augustsmummy wrote: »

With that he said "Give me those!" and grabbed the chocolates from my daughter and stormed out.

Absolutely disgusting behaviour! He should have been sacked rather than just transferred to other duties!

scooby088

Have been reading with interest, since my last post i had a woman chugging for leukemia she tried the shame tactic. I told her i dont care what my neighbours do and preceded to ask her for her DD details for a charity i do support.

I now think that charity begins at home, i support a local hospice as my mother was a resident for a short period before she passed away and i do try to sell the christmas charity lottery every year on behalf of that charity.

augustsmummy

I agree lincroft, but at least he won't be terrorising any more children, or vulnerable people in the name of charity.
Not sure where he has been redeployed to, toilet cleaning would be more appropriate for him I think, at least he wouldn't have much dealing with people face to face! lol

dacouch

They have invented a great new word...Motherchuggers

http://www.bitterwallet.com/tag/charity-muggers

savemoney

Good hopefully it will be made nationwide. I hope they ban cold calling too while there at it, every time they come knocking at my door, I either avoid them when possible or tell them no thank you, its the idiots that dont take no for an answer that annoy me especially when I have a cold calling sticker at the door

dacouch wrote: »

They have invented a great new word...Motherchuggers

http://www.bitterwallet.com/tag/charity-muggers

Laz123

They should also ban them from high streets. In Kingston you have to run the gauntlet of 'Hi, how are you today?' and you know they're going to ask you to sign up for a fund raising company who collects more of your hard-earned than the actual charity.