Comic Relief items at Sainsburys

caroc

Silly question, Comic relief has raised over half a billion quid since it started + all the billions raised by tens of thousands of world wide charities, donations by international governments, institutions and organisations. Is it working ?

spike2012

I think with some of the above posts (people being shocked etc) I have to comment:

Think of a RND mug. I have no idea what they sell for, but on it somewhere it will say "Comic Relief gets £X from the sale of this mug"
What his means is: Sainsbury's have paid Comic relief for the stock (or will do). The charity has the money, so therefore, it doesn't matter what the item sells at, the charity still get X amount that they would have received anyway? This is my understanding. So if the mug says donation = £1, it doesn't matter if it sells for £2, £20 or is free, the charity get the £1...

*Jelly_Tots*

spike2012 wrote: »

I think with some of the above posts (people being shocked etc) I have to comment:

Think of a RND mug. I have no idea what they sell for, but on it somewhere it will say "Comic Relief gets £X from the sale of this mug"
What his means is: Sainsbury's have paid Comic relief for the stock (or will do). The charity has the money, so therefore, it doesn't matter what the item sells at, the charity still get X amount that they would have received anyway? This is my understanding. So if the mug says donation = £1, it doesn't matter if it sells for £2, £20 or is free, the charity get the £1...

I'm not sure about that because the bucket they were collecting the donations in was a Red Nose Day charity-type bucket, which looked like it was going straight to Comic Relief rather than to Sainsburys. The lady behind the counter said someone had put 4p in for loads of stuff, so I overcompensated and probably put in more than the stuff was actually worth hahaha.

rippedoff3

I went to take a look and mine had noses and badges left, i made a donation and took one each for my girls, the lady said fill your boots as we want rid but i didn't as it will end up in the toybox!

*pinkchick*

spike2012 wrote: »

I think with some of the above posts (people being shocked etc) I have to comment:

Think of a RND mug. I have no idea what they sell for, but on it somewhere it will say "Comic Relief gets £X from the sale of this mug"
What his means is: Sainsbury's have paid Comic relief for the stock (or will do). The charity has the money, so therefore, it doesn't matter what the item sells at, the charity still get X amount that they would have received anyway? This is my understanding. So if the mug says donation = £1, it doesn't matter if it sells for £2, £20 or is free, the charity get the £1...

Perhaps this is so, but by putting out a collection bucket, they are asking for direct donations. So if you take a red nose and put 5p in, you are doing the charity out of a potential £1 that another, more honest, person may have provided for the same nose

BarntheBarn

All this trying to make people feel bad for buying a red nose for 5p is ridiculous.

(1) We have no idea what individuals do or give to charity outside of this

(2) In a couple of days the stock that is left will go in landfill

I wish all Red Nose tacky item bargain hunters the best of luck. Think Green.

hunnycat

spike2012 wrote: »

I think with some of the above posts (people being shocked etc) I have to comment:

Think of a RND mug. I have no idea what they sell for, but on it somewhere it will say "Comic Relief gets £X from the sale of this mug"
What his means is: Sainsbury's have paid Comic relief for the stock (or will do). The charity has the money, so therefore, it doesn't matter what the item sells at, the charity still get X amount that they would have received anyway? This is my understanding. So if the mug says donation = £1, it doesn't matter if it sells for £2, £20 or is free, the charity get the £1...

this is the way it normally works, the shops buy the stock and pay the donation upfront so RND will get the £1 regardless. I used to work for a company who sold badges once a year for a charity and we used to bust a gut to sell them until we found out the company had already paid the full donation so it didnt matter how many we actually sold.

*Jelly_Tots* wrote: »

I'm not sure about that because the bucket they were collecting the donations in was a Red Nose Day charity-type bucket, which looked like it was going straight to Comic Relief rather than to Sainsburys. The lady behind the counter said someone had put 4p in for loads of stuff, so I overcompensated and probably put in more than the stuff was actually worth hahaha.

They are probably just trying to raise more money for RND an adding to what they have already gave them by buying the stock in the first place. If it goes in the till it goes to sainsburys if it goes in the bucket it goes to RND

thatguy1

spike2012 wrote: »

I think with some of the above posts (people being shocked etc) I have to comment:

Think of a RND mug. I have no idea what they sell for, but on it somewhere it will say "Comic Relief gets £X from the sale of this mug"
What his means is: Sainsbury's have paid Comic relief for the stock (or will do). The charity has the money, so therefore, it doesn't matter what the item sells at, the charity still get X amount that they would have received anyway? This is my understanding. So if the mug says donation = £1, it doesn't matter if it sells for £2, £20 or is free, the charity get the £1...

Sainsbury's actually produce all RND merchandise, it was in our monthly briefing last month. Someone even uploaded it to you tube so you can see it yourselves if you want. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2TyG1ebDDY

hunnycat wrote: »

If it goes in the till it goes to sainsburys if it goes in the bucket it goes to RND

It doesn't matter if it goes through the till or in the bucket, all the money goes to Comic Relief. Although merchandise should really go through the till do to stock control.