Chuggers - when will charities ever learn!!!!

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

marleyboy wrote: »

They have been banned in Manchester City Centre for the past 5 Years.

Rubbish. There's loads of them on Market Street under the food court. You mustn't have been i to Manchester for a very long time if you've not seen them.

Dreamnine

I simply walk past them, don't recognise their existence as humans.

Surely blanking them is easier than venting on here?

LadyDee

Charities now are big business. After the salaries, agency fees, huge advertising costs, expense accounts, plush offices, I tend to think that only a few pennies per pound ever make it to the cause you're supporting.

And there are just SO MANY charities - think of all the duplication of admin costs, etc. etc. - so much wasted money given by well-meaning and caring people.

We've been pouring billions of pounds into these good causes in 3rd world countries as long as I can remember (and that's a good many decades) and it just seems to get worse - just WHERE has all this money gone?

welshbookworm

When a 'chugger' starts talking to me I simply say 'No bank account' and carry on walking.

nwc389

Dreamnine wrote: »

I simply walk past them, don't recognise their existence as humans.

Surely blanking them is easier than venting on here?

This is my tactic , don't look at them , don't acknowledge them and just keep going.
I can't imagine why I would want to give my bank details to a stranger in the street .

Hoof_Hearted

We don't call them "chuggers any more. We call them "chunts".

Alter_ego

It's not really difficult to say no.

indsty

I can't understand why charities still do this - I have never met anyone who doesn't think they are a nuisance and avoids them at all costs. I think it gives the charity concerned a lot of bad publicity.

Sometimes you almost have to dance down the street from side to side to get out of their way. I do feel sorry for some of the chuggers though - they are only trying to earn a bit of money, but would never advise anyone to take a job like this.

ColinFishwick

The worse ones are those that stand at entrance in store and allowed in you can't avoid them.

Had some in my lcoal B&Q all week 4 times I been in store and each time they keep asking and they get the same answer an infatic "no" who in the right mind would give to so called charity when a lot of that money goes to chugger and the company that employers him or her on top of that giving your banking details to somebody in street is a big "no".

I never understand why charities use them and why shops allow them in store harassing customers

patman99

Colchester Borough Council have follwed their Manchester counter-parts and have banned chuggers from all barr 2 streets on all barr 3 days of the week.

Interestingly, they had a phone-in discussion on BBC Essex's 'Dave Monk' show and one caller actually admitted to have worked for one of the agencies engaged by charities to do street collections and cold-calling.
He revealled that for each sign-up, the chugger gets £35 and the agency gets £35. So for a £3 per month DD donation, it takes 2 years for the charities to actually clear what they paid in commission.

However, the charities have your name and contact details, so will add you to a list that they then sell-on to other organisations.