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I don't know about in other country's but in the UK over the past few years it has become quite common to see People in the street wearing bright coloured vest proclaiming to be from well known charities who will stop you in the middle of the street and ask you to sign up to give monthly donations to whatever charity it is that they are wearing on their vests.
Sounds like a good idea right, which in all fairness it is if you want to donate on a regular basis to a charity of your choice but there's a slight snag with what these people are doing.
THEY DO NOT WORK OR DONATE THEIR TIME TO THE CHARITY!!!!!
In fact they work for an agency which pays them commission or an hourly wage (The people have the choice when they sign up to work for them) and the agency has to be paid first from what you donate so the charity is lucky if it sees any money in the first 2 years of your donating via direct debit. They also say that if you tick the right box on the form that the charity will get gift aid off the government (which is when you donate £1 the govt donates £1) so in effect your actually donating twice.
When stopped in the street by these greedy money grabbing bastards I tend to just tell them that I refuse to pay their wages or commission and walk off. I get quite a bit of abuse at times but it's funny as hell when I can be bothered to reply that I know how the scam works. These so agents do not even know anything about the charities they represent which I proved to a few friends when approached by an idiot claiming to be working for Greenpeace. When asked if I knew who Greenpeace where I just told him that the French had the right idea about dealing with them. The Con Artist asked why and obviously didn't have a clue about Greenpeace's history or aims as the Rainbow Warrior incident in the 80's is something that any real supporter of Greenpeace would know about.
And how do I know all about this. An old mate of mines Wife does this for a living and she has told me all about it and warned me never to sign up to anything on the street. If I want to set up a monthly donation to any charity that the best thing is to do it directly through the charity it's self.
Sounds like a good idea right, which in all fairness it is if you want to donate on a regular basis to a charity of your choice but there's a slight snag with what these people are doing.
THEY DO NOT WORK OR DONATE THEIR TIME TO THE CHARITY!!!!!
In fact they work for an agency which pays them commission or an hourly wage (The people have the choice when they sign up to work for them) and the agency has to be paid first from what you donate so the charity is lucky if it sees any money in the first 2 years of your donating via direct debit. They also say that if you tick the right box on the form that the charity will get gift aid off the government (which is when you donate £1 the govt donates £1) so in effect your actually donating twice.
When stopped in the street by these greedy money grabbing bastards I tend to just tell them that I refuse to pay their wages or commission and walk off. I get quite a bit of abuse at times but it's funny as hell when I can be bothered to reply that I know how the scam works. These so agents do not even know anything about the charities they represent which I proved to a few friends when approached by an idiot claiming to be working for Greenpeace. When asked if I knew who Greenpeace where I just told him that the French had the right idea about dealing with them. The Con Artist asked why and obviously didn't have a clue about Greenpeace's history or aims as the Rainbow Warrior incident in the 80's is something that any real supporter of Greenpeace would know about.
And how do I know all about this. An old mate of mines Wife does this for a living and she has told me all about it and warned me never to sign up to anything on the street. If I want to set up a monthly donation to any charity that the best thing is to do it directly through the charity it's self.
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