Charities Knocking on Doors

kwikbreaks

barryboris wrote: »

Prefer charities to Jehovah's...!

Never ever buy a Watchtower. In my youth I did once (it was 6d iirc) to get rid of them. It didn't. We didn't see the back of them till we moved house.

yangptangkipperbang

The problem is that many charities now have large fund raising departments who understand every slight nuance of the Law concerning charity collections and are adept at inventing new ways to "collect" and stay legal.

Chuggers are a result of this: they are not collecting cash so they do not have to get permission
People who actively pester you as you enter/leave B&Q/Morrisons/etc are operating on private land so they do not need permission
They can shove anything they like though your letter box or pay Royal Mail (who HAVE) to deliver it...............


PS: Does anyone know of an organisation which collects unwanted collection bags ??

JReacher1

How many of these do you get a month? I have maybe one charity person knock on my door every two months. I just tell them I won't give my bank details out to people who knock on my door and then they go away.

It's a 1 minute interaction.

I don't find it annoying enough to bother about!

Hoof_Hearted

Chuggers are known as "chunts" round this neck of the woods.

Upsidedown_Bear

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

PS: Does anyone know of an organisation which collects unwanted collection bags ??

I use them as bin liners :cool:

MarkBargain

barryboris wrote: »

Prefer charities to Jehovah's...!

I have had two calls from JWs in about two years. Both times I politely argued with them using science and reason, and both times after a few minutes they said they had to go. Maybe one day I will convert them.

sheilavw

It's not just the knocking at the door it's the phoning. A few weeks ago my youngest Daughter drove to her Boyfriend's in Wales for the weekend. She's not been driving a very long time and it was a 3 hr journey each way and I worry about her. On the Sunday she text me to say leaving his. About an hour later the house phone rang and a lady was on the phone. She had a Welsh accent and said Is that Mrs H........ I said Yes. She then said , you won't be expecting this call. At this point I feared the worst and convinced myself my Daughter had been involved in an accident. She then went on to say it was Marie Curie Cancer , ringing to raise funds. I nearly had an heart attack!

zagfles

sheilavw wrote: »

It's not just the knocking at the door it's the phoning. A few weeks ago my youngest Daughter drove to her Boyfriend's in Wales for the weekend. She's not been driving a very long time and it was a 3 hr journey each way and I worry about her. On the Sunday she text me to say leaving his. About an hour later the house phone rang and a lady was on the phone. She had a Welsh accent and said Is that Mrs H........ I said Yes. She then said , you won't be expecting this call. At this point I feared the worst and convinced myself my Daughter had been involved in an accident. She then went on to say it was Marie Curie Cancer , ringing to raise funds. I nearly had an heart attack!

That's the next stage. The chugger's task is to get you to sign up for some trivially small amount, like £2 per month (one of them who knocked on my door only wanted 50p a month!!)

The charity isn't interested in that, in fact they probably won't see any of it - it'll go to the chugging company. What they're really after is signing you up an a donor, so they can then pester you with phone calls and letters asking you to up the donation.

By signing up for £2 a month or 50p or whatever, you've made it clear you either have an interest in the charity or you're easily persuaded by cold callers, so you're a good target for further calls, and being on the TPS won't help as you've already got a relationship with them. Plus upping the donation is simple, as a DD is already set up.

The chugger is simply a cold caller generating leads which they can then follow up with what they really want - ie a much higher amount. It's a totally disingenuous for chuggers to claim that the charity only wants 50p a month or whatever. They don't. They'll probably make a loss if you sign up for a DD for that sort of amount and refuse to increase it.

teddysmum

We rarely have them ,but 2 or 3 collection bags per week are common.


I say that I only donate to small charities where the money is spent on the cause, instead of salaries and real estate.

yangptangkipperbang

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

I use them as bin liners :cool:

Gosh ! how many bins have you got ?