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The leaflets for cloths etc.. charities?

  • 14-02-2010 01:11AM
    #1
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭


    My god seriously how many of them a night to come through letterbox.Its like 12 in the night and coming through the door :eek:
    The amount of that stuff coming through the letter box how they expect anyone to have anything to give away.Then there is the ones who take them and dump them around corner of not brand new or designer stuff.
    If it was once a week or month but its every day!

    Do you get them everyday?


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  • #2
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Constantly. Hate the sight of the fucking things


  • #3
    xw2lj9uspm1eyh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭xw2lj9uspm1eyh


    Sure it's big business for them now a days they rip the clothes up and sell them as rags to cleaning companies etc etc.


  • #4
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    mendusa wrote: »
    Sure it's big business for them now a days they rip the clothes up and sell them as rags to cleaning companies etc etc.

    I heard it come through my door and went out and this bewildered girl i handed it back to her.:D Sorry she said i said its ok not your fault, i just have enough for next ten or twenty years :rolleyes:


  • #5
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    I'd say the Cerebral Palsy people have given up on the black bag idea now at this stage cause they're just gone by the time they go to collect.. the Eastern Europeans elusive theives have a whole racket set up.. they give around the bags under the guise of Vincent De Paul or something and they wait up all night to go round and swipe..

    Who said that???????? I didn't :eek:


  • #6
    Closed ac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭Closed ac


    All those bloody jack and jill foundation bags that always come through the letter box too!

    How many old phones do they think we have..


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  • #7
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    caseyann wrote: »
    I heard it come through my door and went out and this bewildered girl i handed it back to her.:D Sorry she said i said its ok not your fault, i just have enough for next ten or twenty years :rolleyes:

    And remember that a lot of those outfits are professional scammers who are in it for profit and nothing else.


  • #8
    btard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭btard


    Obviously plenty of money in the rag racket.


  • #9
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    DKZ wrote: »
    All those bloody jack and jill foundation bags that always come through the letter box too!

    How many old phones do they think we have..

    Haha i know i have them every day as well,we have a stack of phones in closet and not giving them to you :D
    Kristopherus wrote: »
    And remember that a lot of those outfits are professional scammers who are in it for profit and nothing else.

    I know i seen them myself collecting the bags and driving off rifling through the bags for the good stuff and dumping rest in a bush :mad:


  • #10
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,774 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    What makes these a total pain is that they tend to drop them through the letterbox at 4 or 5 in the morning!


  • #11
    The Pontiac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,415 ✭✭✭The Pontiac


    I used to love these scammers. My refuse collection is pay-by-weight, so I used fill up the scammer's bags with real heavy rubbish and cover the top with some old clothes. Mysteriously, I don't get the bags through my letterbox anymore. I dump my unwanted 'good gear' in the clothes bank that actually ends up going to the less well off.


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  • #12
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    <Ollie> wrote: »
    I used to love these scammers. My refuse collection is pay-by-weight, so I used fill up the scammer's bags with real heavy rubbish and cover the top with some old clothes. Mysteriously, I don't get the bags through my letterbox anymore. I dump my unwanted 'good gear' in the clothes bank that actually ends up going to the less well off.

    I am so going to use that tip.

    /no pun intended..:pac:


  • #13
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    attachment.php?attachmentid=105126&stc=1&d=1266109028

    Some of them are load bearing stickers.


  • #14
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    I've started collecting the damn things just to see how many different ones I can get.
    I have now about 25/30 different ones.
    Isn't it great we have so many registered clothing charities! :rolleyes:

    LOL looking at a just previous post I see someone else has had the same idea.
    Genghiz Cohen wrote: »
    attachment.php?attachmentid=105126&stc=1&d=1266109028
    Some of them are load bearing stickers.

    Maybe we should start swapping them like football cards!


  • #15
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Genghiz Cohen wrote: »
    attachment.php?attachmentid=105126&stc=1&d=1266109028

    Some of them are load bearing stickers.

    I was sticking them on my bin but it made the bin look untidy.


  • #16
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    I heard they shred up the clothes you give them and they then sell them as rags.


  • #17
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,849 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Ever work in a shop or garage that uses these rags though?

    My time in a garage was filled with trying to think of what item of clothing I was holding while cleaning something oily or greasy, once I even had a Liverscumpool jersey, enjoyed using it I did!


  • #18
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    My time in a garage was filled with trying to think of what item of clothing I was holding while cleaning something oily or greasy, once I even had a Liverscumpool jersey, enjoyed using it I did!

    How much do they charge for the rags?


  • #19
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Ever work in a shop or garage that uses these rags though?

    My time in a garage was filled with trying to think of what item of clothing I was holding while cleaning something oily or greasy, once I even had a Liverscumpool jersey, enjoyed using it I did!

    Post about footie again and I will flush your post down the nearest Man U hole.


  • #20
    Cerocco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Cerocco


    I can get 1-2 a day through the letterbox. Sick to death of it. What really does my head in is that i'm not home all day and this bloody thing is hanging out of the letter box for all to see that i'm not home. Ollie, great advise. I'm gonna put a sh1t load of my rubbish in the bags and put a couple of old tee shirts on top. that will learn em!!!!!!!:D:D


  • #21
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,849 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Sharpshooter wrote: »
    Post about footie again and I will flush your post down the nearest Man U hole.
    Damn the next comment set me up for another :o
    GaNjaHaN wrote: »
    How much do they charge for the rags?
    I don't know, I just know they got 20kg bags of them every couple weeks, got loads in it!

    Wouldnt imagine they'd be too pricey tbh.


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  • #22
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    incredible but through, to the disbelief of everyone in the house they actually delievered one on christmas morning :eek::eek:

    and there's always very poor english on them too, wonder where they're written


  • #23
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    It's really irritating, I just get the stickers through the door.
    So they are absolutely no use, as stickers don't double up as rubbish bags.


  • #24
    Hauk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Hauk


    The cheap skates stopped giving you the bag to go with them :(

    I posted about this in Ranting and Raving before. Bastards.


  • #25
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    xzanti wrote: »
    the Eastern Europeans elusive theives have a whole racket set up
    Eastern Europe's a big place. Whatever is done with the clothes, it's a way of getting rid of garments you'll never wear again and will just leave to take up space and turn into mothballs... /shrug


  • #26
    The Pontiac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,415 ✭✭✭The Pontiac


    GaNjaHaN wrote: »
    I heard they shred up the clothes you give them and they then sell them as rags.

    Unless they come accross some Prada stuff of course..


  • #27
    Darksaga87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭Darksaga87


    I keep hoping i catch them comeing to the door so i can give it back to them. Never see them though!

    Still though, they keep the fire going.


  • #28
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569695/How-charity-clothes-line-Lithuanian-pockets.html
    Leaflets pushed through letter boxes in thousands of streets across Britain are deliberately misleading homeowners by making it seem that the clothes are "sent to Third World countries to help clothe the poor".

    In reality, the clothes are taken and sold by Lithuanian gangs, which are estimated to be depriving charities of up £10 million a year in lost revenues.
    Secondhand bras are worth €1,200 to €1,500 a tonne.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/rag-wars-rage-over-control-of-charity-clothes-market-124920.html
    One Malahide householder said she was leaving out a bag of clothing for the Irish Cancer Society when a gang of eastern European men pulled up in a van outside her neighbour's house and grabbed it.

    "I confronted them and asked for ID which they didn't have. Eventually they opened the back door of the van and I retrieved the bag. It was full of Irish Cancer Society bags

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054933493&page=3
    http://ocaoimh.ie/do-not-delay-how-to-spot-a-fake-charity-flyer/


  • #29
    Beechman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭Beechman


    Some of these leaflet drops also try to open your door when putting the sticker through the letterbox.


  • #30
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Why for the love of **** has nobody been prosecuted for fraud over this yet


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  • #31
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I have a sign up saying 'No unsolicited mails'. So any unsolicited mail is effectively litter. These people are therefore illegally dumping their litter on my property.
    There was one company in particular that put a huge number of trash leaflets through my letterbox. I rang them and threatened to obtain a court order preventing them from harassing me, and that I would seek compensation for the nuisance & cost of having to dispose of their trash.

    Not sure if I could legally actually do this, but the threat was enough to get them to stop distributing the leaflets on the entire road.


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