The Entertainer - Charity wrist bands RIP OFF

Swattie

Just spotted all the different coloured charity wristbands on a wall in the Entertainer (a HUGE wall full) - they charge £2 each with the Entertainer?? donating 75p from each sale to a charity.

Which means they benefit to the tune of £1.25 per band (I'd estimate at least £1 profit - more than the amount donated to charity).

Vote with your feet and buy your charity bands either directly from the Charity shops or from stores such as Dorothy Perkins whoich sells Breast Cancer Bands for £1 each and it ALL goes to the charity).

AS the Entertainer is a toy store they are exploiting both the names of the Charities and Children.

trisontana

There is a chain of toy-shops ( called Toymaster ) who are doing the same thing . They have this poster in the window "proudly" announcing that they are donating 75p to charity out of the £2 charge. There is a web-site called iwantoneofthose also charging over the odds for these wristbands.

As someone who works for Oxfam I say come into our shops . We will only charge you £1 (although you can give more) for the Make Poverty History bands. We only keep back 25p for buying the bands from the supplier. All the rest (including any extra you give over the minimum) goes to the charity appeal.