Door to door charity fundraising...

Sagaris

All gone by the looks of things - not before time too! I'd reported her several times too - how vile! Suppose she will just return under another name though?

kentguy07

Sagaris wrote: »

All gone by the looks of things - not before time too! I'd reported her several times too - how vile! Suppose she will just return under another name though?

Truly vile creature indeed lets hope they blocked her for good.

tesphen

Kite2010 wrote: »

"I already donate" is a good line I use when someone comes up to me wanting money

Sorry, we have a response for that. If you really don't want to donate or listen, just wait until we explain that we're here on behalf of a charity, we get to that immediately, it will appear at the start of any chugger's pitch and shouldn't take him or her about 5 seconds to get to. Then say politely and firmly that you're not interested. Once the chugger knows that you know they're there on behalf of a charity and that you're not interested they should leave. If they don't then be as rude as you like because they're doing their job wrong.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

tesphen wrote: »

Sorry, we have a response for that. If you really don't want to donate or listen, just wait until we explain that we're here on behalf of a charity, we get to that immediately, it will appear at the start of any chugger's pitch and shouldn't take him or her about 5 seconds to get to. Then say politely and firmly that you're not interested. Once the chugger knows that you know they're there on behalf of a charity and that you're not interested they should leave. If they don't then be as rude as you like because they're doing their job wrong.

Or better still, don't knock on my door or try and trap me in the supermarket in the first place. This week charity, next week electricity supplier, the next probably a martial arts school or gym membership. No different from the lucky heather scammers.

Why should I have to give you even 5 seconds of my time?

MothballsWallet

Dreamnine wrote: »

I tell them to fcuk off too... Too many scroungers/beggars around.

And they're just in Government

MothballsWallet

moonrakerz wrote: »

I wonder if the senior people running these charities realise how much damage they are doing to their organisation's reputations by employing chuggers and by some of their overtly political stances that some now seem to be taking ?

No, they probably don't care for the 6-7 figure salary they're getting for the privilege.

BargainGalore

Agreed

Doesn't matter where you go at home, high street, supermarket you are constantly harassed by utility companies and chuggers

It never use to be like this so why now?

If I want to give to charity I give it if I like the charity and or dont get pestered but no way woudl I ever give a stranger in the street my personnel details let alone agree to DD only to be pestered next month for increasing it

Chuggers get a real Job at McDonalds

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Or better still, don't knock on my door or try and trap me in the supermarket in the first place. This week charity, next week electricity supplier, the next probably a martial arts school or gym membership. No different from the lucky heather scammers.

Why should I have to give you even 5 seconds of my time?

Payless_2

If anyone stops you in the street you are more than entitled to say I'm not interested or no thanks. I would never tell anyone to f off though. I used to work as a market researcher and getting sworn at is awful. It is a hard job and when the weather is bad, it is miserable enough.

Having said that, if someone told me that they weren't interested I would just let them go on their way. Many people just can't spare the time so that's understandable. Tesphen - You are in the wrong job if you think that you are entitled to even 2 seconds of someone's time. I actually find that expectation to be quite arrogant. Aside from that, aren't you wasting 5 seconds of your own time talking to someone that is never going to sign up? Or is 5 seconds all you need to get into the hard sell tactics?

marleyboy

Nobody should stop anyone in the street, its one thing to stand there rattling a box to everyone who passes or politely say "care to make a donation?", the public get the hint and if they feel generous enough to donate, may stop and partake.

However if you were to physically STOP me in the street, expect a rather impolite response from me, after all I am only going about doing my own uninterrupted business.

lincroft1710

tesphen wrote: »

And chuggers do save lives. For every sign-up we get, we have raised on average £700 for our charity.

No, YOU don't save lives!

The money which is donated goes possibly towards "saving lives". How many lives per annum does Save the Children claim it has saved.

By your reckoning charity shop workers also "save lives" as they sell donated items for the charity. I buy items from and donate items to charity shops but I don't claim to save lives. I contribute via taxes to ambulance, fire and NHS, but again I don't claim to save lives.

If you are proud of the work you do, fine. You may be the person who gives chuggers a good name. But don't become delusional by believing your part in the charity chain is more important than it is.