Please send €40, or whatever you can ...

Rabidlamb

Well I was going to give €25 but as you make me feel guilty you're getting nothing.
When did this suggested donation thing become the norm.
It's like when they send the sponsorship card around the office & the first two people have given €10.
Too clever by half.

Wazdakka

Huh?

Cookie_Monster

send me your bank details and I'll send you the €40

klose

....the fuc k?

Max Power1

Wazdakka wrote: »

Huh?

The concern adds.
it used to be give what you can, now they ask for 40 euro.

They can politely fcuk off as far as i'm concerned.

Any charitable donation I make are done to the Simon community. At least my donations assist people in ireland rather than sending irish money to aid some far off country when there are Irish people living on the streets.

Sizzler

Just €150k a year will help keep our impoverished CEO in a job, another €30k will help keep his company car...

Every cent counts folks!

Wazdakka

Max Power1 wrote: »

The concern adds.

Ah...

Fortunately I don't watch television so I am immune to charity.

Rabidlamb

Wazdakka wrote: »

Huh?

Charitable donations wouldn't bother this fella cause he can't even afford a radio.

Sykk

What is this I dont even

KungPao

40 euro won't do much for your friends mortgage problems.

Gone Drinking

I did laugh when i heard this on the radio the other day.. €40 euro or whatever you can. Yikes, 40 quid? Maybe in the 90s!

chin_grin

Sykk wrote: »

What is this I dont even

How do I shot €40?

KungPao

Victor McDade wrote: »

OP, the friend in your other thread needs your €25 more than the charity!

Down below....Ohhhh....too slow!

Smcgie

Stingiest things you seen stingy people do thread thataa way --->

SV

KungPao wrote: »

40 euro won't do much for your friends mortgage problems.

it will if she gets a hundred people to send it!

toiletduck

Max Power1 wrote: »

At least my donations assist people in ireland rather than sending irish money to aid some far off country when there are Irish people living on the streets.

Ah now, every few quid we manage to pump over means less that they'll have to take out of their nuclear weapons programme.

CiaranMT

€40 is a target which most donors will not reach. You see the target and go, 'I can't afford that, I'll just give €10/15/30', and thereby feel better for contributing something, even if it wasn't what Concern asked for.

Concern, meanwhile, are getting more money than when they asked for 'just €2 a month' kinda thing.

walshb

Max Power1 wrote: »

The concern adds.
it used to be give what you can, now they ask for 40 euro.

They can politely fcuk off as far as i'm concerned.

Any charitable donation I make are done to the Simon community. At least my donations assist people in ireland rather than sending irish money to aid some far off country when there are Irish people living on the streets.

Spot on; nothing but a money racket if you ask me.
Maybe Pakistan can divert some of its "Nuclear Money" to aid
the problem?

I mean, how long has this been going on with these NGOs? What are they doing with all this money? Every couple of months there is some tragedy and disaster that they are begging for. Niger is again back in the news, it's all big business and all about chasing the money.

Africa and some of these other places have been in drought and famine and turmoil for Millennia, and still we are being harassed for donations. It's a bottomless pit.

And now it's 40€ they want. Setting minimum amounts? The cheek of them. Yet, there will be plenty who won't even bat an eyelid and give this, not even
bothering to research where it goes, what it does, who looks after it and if it's
doing any actual use.

Brendog

I say we donate €40 so Rabidlamp can get some psychological therapy...

thirtythirty

walshb wrote: »

SYet, there will be plenty who won't even bat an eyelid and give this, not even
bothering to research where it goes, what it does, who looks after it and if it's
doing any actual use.

Exactly. That's why i sent them €40's worth of sponges.

chin_grin

Thread is also here, http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056010796

strobe

CiaranMT wrote: »

€40 is a target which most donors will not reach. You see the target and go, 'I can't afford that, I'll just give €10/15/30', and thereby feel better for contributing something, even if it wasn't what Concern asked for.

Concern, meanwhile, are getting more money than when they asked for 'just €2 a month' kinda thing.

Maybe, I presume thier marketing people know what works and what doesn't. But if out of 1000 people that see the ad I'd imagine far more would be likely to think "yeah ok it's only a fiver" if they only asked for E5 but think "go and fukk yourselves" when they ask for 40 or 50. I think Concern PLC's marketing division dropped the ball here.

TequilaMockingBird

I say we all pool our €40 and send walshb to Pakistan.

Just for the lolz.

candy-gal1

Tis just another way to bleed people dry or make them feel guilty for not giving money.

fakearms123

The OP was definitely eating Rowntree's randoms when he was writing this thread, "Ah no problem monkey socks, your best bet is to follow your rubber duck, go right past the christmas tree then you need... eh let me think... yeah you want to follow your saxophone till you reach the white fronts, then bob's your teapot, alright ice-cream cone!" :D:D

Cool Mo D

walshb wrote: »

Spot on; nothing but a money racket if you ask me.
Maybe Pakistan can divert some of its "Nuclear Money" to aid
the problem?

The cheek of them asking for help for 20 million people who've lost their homes! No doubt the Pakistanis have engineered the entire flood as a money making racket. And the nerve to make someone feel uncomfortable by actually asking for an amount of money on a television ad!

Rabidlamb

chin_grin wrote: »

Thread is also here, http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056010796

Look, someone else thinks the same way as me...... (welling up here)

Fattes

I have seen concerns taxi accounts! Amazing how they spend money donated to them on Taxi fares from Camden Street, to Kildare street and Fitzwilliam square.

So please donate your €40 or they will have to walk!

gbee

Ah but they already have people on the ground ...

See a typical breakdown would be, €30 to pay staff and airfares and foreign holidays, I mean, foreign rescue missions, phew! €8 for the guy on the ground and €2 for ... oh, my, now I've forgotten where that goes.

ronkmonster

They are relying on suggestion of a number to increase their donation amounts.

If they don't specify, you might give 10.
If you say 40, you might not want to give 40 but you'll usually go higher than if they didn't give a suggested amount.

Caught

I was thinking this the other day when I saw the ad. I was like "ehm, thats my pocket money for the month?" How long are these ads going on for? Because they've kinda lost that "omg" effect on people it seems. They have on my generation anyway. One of my friends feel bad for the kids at times, but if they are having kids they cant feed we just assume they shouldnt be doing it.

E40 is a bit much imo. Like, I know there's a recession all over the world, but that includes here, people are losing their houses nall. You'd think that over the years with the Concern boxes in schools every Easter and the donations people make and fundraising nall, they'd of gotten somewhere, right? And I know that I may sound extremely stupid saying this, but I've heard of them making schools nall over there and having an education nall, but the kids cant eat? :S Like with that laptop thing. "One Laptop Per Child" meant they were giving kids laptops. But why didnt they send over food and stuff first with that money and then when there was enough food for ages concentrate on their education? :S

Lol, remember I'm just a silly teenager who gets alot wrong and can be confused a bit easily. :L

plein de force

oh i hate concern
those over-zealous people on the streets asking if you have a minute to spare, every 20 steps there's another one, then those people for the hanley centre, "do you wanna buy a sratchcard" every couple of seconds. charities nowadays just annoy me, if i want to make a donation i will!

gbee

Caught wrote: »

But why didnt they send over food and stuff first with that money and then when there was enough food for ages concentrate on their education? :SL

IMO, they should only educate them if they have prospects. Otherwise, with a little help with the food as you say, they'd have a happier life instead of worrying about getting enough money to pay a mortgage ....

CiaranMT

strobe wrote: »

Maybe, I presume thier marketing people know what works and what doesn't. But if out of 1000 people that see the ad I'd imagine far more would be likely to think "yeah ok it's only a fiver" if they only asked for E5 but think "go and fukk yourselves" when they ask for 40 or 50. I think Concern PLC's marketing division dropped the ball here.

Not everyone is as tight fisted as the posse here on AH :P

That ad will do good business for them.

loobylou

Fattes wrote: »

I have seen concerns taxi accounts! Amazing how they spend money donated to them on Taxi fares from Camden Street, to Kildare street and Fitzwilliam square.

So please donate your €40 or they will have to walk!

+1
I worked for a taxi company back in the 90's and I used be sickened by the account work for a large Irish charity (not Concern but similar).
They used use the charity account for trips to and from the pub.

Sizzler

loobylou wrote: »

+1
I worked for a taxi company back in the 90's and I used be sickened by the account work for a large Irish charity (not Concern but similar).
They used use the charity account for trips to and from the pub.

Thats an absolute disgrace !

Some people on the thread would tell you though its a pittance in comparison to all the great work they do so dont get hung up on it as the good outweighs the bad so that makes it OK....

Sure Concern, GOAL etc have that much money in the bank they cant spend it but yet they are on the radio asking for 40 sheets from the financially battered Irish punter!

GreeBo

Caught wrote: »

I was thinking this the other day when I saw the ad. I was like "ehm, thats my pocket money for the month?" How long are these ads going on for? Because they've kinda lost that "omg" effect on people it seems. They have on my generation anyway. One of my friends feel bad for the kids at times, but if they are having kids they cant feed we just assume they shouldnt be doing it.

E40 is a bit much imo. Like, I know there's a recession all over the world, but that includes here, people are losing their houses nall. You'd think that over the years with the Concern boxes in schools every Easter and the donations people make and fundraising nall, they'd of gotten somewhere, right? And I know that I may sound extremely stupid saying this, but I've heard of them making schools nall over there and having an education nall, but the kids cant eat? :S Like with that laptop thing. "One Laptop Per Child" meant they were giving kids laptops. But why didnt they send over food and stuff first with that money and then when there was enough food for ages concentrate on their education? :S

Lol, remember I'm just a silly teenager who gets alot wrong and can be confused a bit easily. :L

What on earth has Naul got to do with it Tina?