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"Vintage Giving" who is behind it?
Anglesey
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Some smaller charities are using an organisation called "Vintage GIving" which asks for all your old clutter, broken or not, preferably gold, silver, jewels, cameras, etc and offering free postage to send it in. They say 100 percent goes to your nominated charity, and if so who is paying for the free postage admin and website? I know this could be a legit way of helping charities play the old "knocker" game of hoping to pick up some valuable dish that the cat always has its dinner on, and if so fine. Except it would be nice to know who is running this organisation, and what their history is. I can't find anything on their website.
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You can find information on the company here:It does sound strange that they say "Your chosen charity receives 100% of the value of your donated items".You can send them a message via their website, I suppose you could always ask them how they fund the postage costs, admin, etc.
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Looking around on their website it seems to hinge on there being various possible 'values' for the same item and can sometimes fetch more if offered at just the right place/time.Under the heading how much does the charity receive:"Your donated items now become part of our stock. We aim to sell your items for up to twice their original value..."
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Vintage Giving now say 50% of the money they make on goods donations goes to charity. This is in their brochure.2
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But their website still says "100% of value".SoniaRItter said:Vintage Giving now say 50% of the money they make on goods donations goes to charity. This is in their brochure.0 -
"value" could mean anything, but is most likely a lot less than the price they sell at1
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Some interesting info from Companies House if you dig in a bit.Lazydayz71 said:You can find information on the company here:It does sound strange that they say "Your chosen charity receives 100% of the value of your donated items".You can send them a message via their website, I suppose you could always ask them how they fund the postage costs, admin, etc.I'd certainly be waiting for more testimonials before sending them anything..0
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