Collecting at the Door

ikati5

Perhaps there is someone on here who can tell us how to stop these chuggers bothering us in our homes.

Is there notice we can put up that will stop them knocking, something that says No uninvited callers or by appointment only.

We should all have the right to an undisturbed homelife.

emmamed

ikati5 wrote: »

Perhaps there is someone on here who can tell us how to stop these chuggers bothering us in our homes.

Is there notice we can put up that will stop them knocking, something that says No uninvited callers or by appointment only.

We should all have the right to an undisturbed homelife.

i was hoping my no cold callers sign would be for these people aswell. surely they are still cold calling as they are not invited.

carpedieme

I simply say no thankyou and quickly close the door, works every time.

david39

A notice saying "No cold callers" has no legal standing.
It's not an offence to knock on someone's door (unless the same person/organisation is doing it repeatedly and thereby harassing).
It won't stop people cold calling on you - however, it does mean that you can point to it when you answer the door, thereby avoiding the need to enter into a conversation if you don't want to.

NeverInDebt

You should never give your details out to anyone at the street/door unless you know 100% its safe. Any one can come claiming they represent x company/charity and try and get you to sign a piece of paper with bank details. Anyone with a ounce of intelligence can easily fake ID its not difficult. Any direct debt payments paid to these companies profit that company/chugger for many months before the charity if you want to donate, donate direct

I just say to anyone I am not interested and thank them and shut the door I dont get into any conversation, you can tell a mile off they want your money. I dont buy, I dont give and I refuse to give any information about my household either for market research

I do give to charity on my terms not there's

RobertoMoir

NeverInDebt wrote: »

You should never give your details out to anyone at the street/door unless you know 100% its safe. Any one can come claiming they represent x company/charity and try and get you to sign a piece of paper with bank details. Anyone with a ounce of intelligence can easily fake ID its not difficult. Any direct debt payments paid to these companies profit that company/chugger for many months before the charity if you want to donate, donate direct

I just say to anyone I am not interested and thank them and shut the door I dont get into any conversation, you can tell a mile off they want your money. I dont buy, I dont give and I refuse to give any information about my household either for market research

I do give to charity on my terms not there's

If everyone thought like this then the chuggers would disappear. Charities use them because they can see from their high level statistical view that they work. Sadly.

Don't deal with chuggers and give on your own terms is the best thing to do - and for me, "my own terms" includes not giving to charities that push things to the point where I feel harassed to them and explaining why in a nice letter to their head office.

lazer

emmamed wrote: »

hubby saw an advert for a charity shop manager, and the wages stated "with bonus" hth can a charity pay people a bonus.

Do think that maybe the bonus is for a reason?

At the end of it a charity is like any other shop, and if they pay their staff a bonus to meet difficult sales targers, that the staff would not otherwise be striving so hard to meet, then it actually makes money for the charity?

Working in a charity shop is actually quite hard work, and managing it even more so, as you are often dealing with a number of volunteer staff, who feel as they can work whenever they like, ignore rotas, believe they should get the clothes etc for free. In addition to this the shop staff have to deal with the people coming in looking for help from the charity who could potentially be homeless, drunk, on drugs etc, and may not easlily take no for an answer.
Thay also need to sort through bags upon bags of doantions, often dirty clothes etc. The clothes are all sorted and any being sold need to steamed and prepared for sale.

Charity shop work is difficult, and there is much more to it than serving on the till, as this part is usually left for the volunteers.

As far as I am concerned, they are more than entitled to the bonus.

david39

I agree with lazer.

Charity shops are in competition not only with each other but the rest of the High Street and, as such, need to employ managers capable of bringing in as much revenue as possible.

It is not a job that one can walk into off the street and immediately be successful. To attract the correct level of skill, a charity needs to offer a competitive employment package and in these days that usually means a bonus for attaining or exceeding sales targets.

Most major charities these days employ skilled workers in a wide range of capacities. They do not rely solely on unpaid volunteers.

quietheart

I had one of these idiots at the door the other night. I stupidly left the kids in the bath thinking it might be something important. Saw it was a chugger, said I didn't have time and was quite irritated at myself for answering. Shut door, chugger shouts 'that's f+cking nice' and kicks the door!
She was female, around 20 yrs old and had something of an aggression problem. Pity the old lady who gets her....

emmamed

david39 wrote: »

I agree with lazer.

Charity shops are in competition not only with each other but the rest of the High Street and, as such, need to employ managers capable of bringing in as much revenue as possible.

It is not a job that one can walk into off the street and immediately be successful. To attract the correct level of skill, a charity needs to offer a competitive employment package and in these days that usually means a bonus for attaining or exceeding sales targets.

Most major charities these days employ skilled workers in a wide range of capacities. They do not rely solely on unpaid volunteers.

if they in competition, they shouldnt charge more for items which you can buy new. i have often seen cheap makes like primark in charity shops priced at more than they actually cost new. and its not as if they have business rates to worry about, like other high street shops.