door to door fundraising

wolf moon · 21-06-2011 06:15PM #1

i've recently noticed an increased activity in this matter: money for animals, cancer, heart transplants, homeless and everything/one else. i do appreciate it, i do help when i can and when i feel i want to, but the fact that someone rings my doorbell every couple of days saying "i need X money for whatever, so give me your money and take this sh1tty, overpriced mascot" annoys me. not even the fact itself, but that evil change on the fundraiser's face when i say "not this time chief". same as the roma begging in the city centre imo, a bit less agressive though.
and no, i don't feel bad about it. no one has ever given me any money for free nor i believe someone ever will.

whats your view on this?

mikemac · 21-06-2011 06:22PM

No adult charity collectors around here.

Usually just the local underage soccer team knocking on doors looking for money to go to a blitz/tournament in Germany.

If it's not them it's the girls underage camoige team going for a weekend tournament and training out Whest.

If they don't catch me on the doorstep they catch me bagging groceries in Tesco.

Money is tight, parents are under pressure but it's a bit much to ask locals to send your children and coaches to Germany

Son Of A Vidic · 21-06-2011 06:24PM

My German Shepherds don't take to kindly to unexpected visitors.

Duckworth_Luas · 21-06-2011 06:28PM

Never steal from Girl Scouts collecting money, these chicks ended up in jail and hated by the entire USA. Admitting it on TV is not a good idea either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLBCbNIDbI

Toby Take a Bow · 21-06-2011 06:34PM

I've noticed this increasing since the beginning of the year. When I was laid off, a guy from Oxfam called to the door. I told him I would be interested, but just got laid off, so wouldn't really be able to contribute. He launched into a speech which began with 'well, I'm sure you're not just telling me you got laid off in order to...'. Shut the door at this point.

I hate them enough when they step in front of you in the street, but when they start calling at your door, it's a bit much. I know about charities, if I want to contribute, I'll look you up. How's that sound?

Abi · 21-06-2011 06:34PM

wolf moon wrote: »

i've recently noticed an increased activity in this matter: money for animals, cancer, heart transplants, homeless and everything/one else. i do appreciate it, i do help when i can and when i feel i want to, but the fact that someone rings my doorbell every couple of days saying "i need X money for whatever, so give me your money and take this sh1tty, overpriced mascot" annoys me. not even the fact itself, but that evil change on the fundraiser's face when i say "not this time chief". same as the roma begging in the city centre imo, a bit less agressive though.
and no, i don't feel bad about it. no one has ever given me any money for free nor i believe someone ever will.

whats your view on this?

It gets on my fucking nerves. We have to endure it on the street, when paying for our food, and then on our own door steps. I donate whenever I have it to spare, the constant hounding is turning me against wanting to if I'm brutally honest.

Family and friends know to call or text me to let me know they're on the way, other wise my front door doesn't get answered. If its not chuggers, its people trying to sell me crap I don't want. I actually have my door-bell disconnected from the incessant hounding.

byhookorbycrook · 21-06-2011 06:37PM

I'll give to the local football or whatever, but we had a plague of "art students" with very little English trying to hard sell mawkish stuff door to door.The one time I did just close the door and walk off.

prinz · 21-06-2011 06:40PM

Have had a few young chancers at the door alright, usually involves a story about the school/football club/karate club etc and a supposed draw whereby you donate and write your name and address into a blank notebook on unheaded paper. It's a complete scam.

wolf moon · 21-06-2011 06:52PM

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

I know about charities, if I want to contribute, I'll look you up. How's that sound?

exactly my thoughts, couldn't describe it better myself.

Abi wrote: »

It gets on my fucking nerves.

same here. i was worried that maybe it's just me becoming a stingy pr1ck, but for god's sake - i haven't seen pay increase for 4 years, getting cuts, tax increases, interest rate hikes, looking at water and household charges instead. it's not that i'm lying on a pile of cash i have nothing to do with, i try to save, use a bike as often as i can instead of a car. i don't have spare fivers or tenners lying all around me, and even if i had i have a lot of more important things to buy.

hate being put in that ****ing position "if you won't give us your money, sinead dies of cancer". well - tough luck me thinks.

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

very little English

no matter what language, a rip off is a rip off

phasers · 21-06-2011 06:55PM

This is when living in a rough council estate pays off, nobody knocks into my gaff begging because they know we're all either poor or drug dealers.

ScumLord · 21-06-2011 07:01PM

After the Rehab scandal and seeing this channel 4 documentary accusing the conservation charities of burning out small tribal African villages to make way for nature reserves I wouldn't trust any of them with my money. They all seem to be using charity to con money out of people.

alex73 · 21-06-2011 07:02PM

Simply rule... Unless its the postman or somebody you know then don't open the door.

ScumLord · 21-06-2011 07:04PM

alex73 wrote: »

Simply rule... Unless its the postman or somebody you know then don't open the door.

What if it's someone you don't know posing as your postman?

mikemac · 21-06-2011 07:06PM

Neil Mellon, isn't he a great man?

Brings over builders to Africa to build houses.
When he could just donate the resoures and create employment, the locals could build their own houses.

Selling overpriced houses to Irish people. Now caught up in NAMA so owing money indirectly to taxpayers.

But he's a saint I tell ya

maglite · 21-06-2011 07:08PM

I dont have that much of a problem for genuine Charities collecting reasonable amounts.

This we need €25-€50 crack or I need a holiday with my Club lark is well out of order.

marcsignal · 21-06-2011 07:10PM

Don't mind it door to door, you can choose not to answer, but i fookin hate it in the pub.

Quiet you · 21-06-2011 07:24PM

mikemac wrote: »

Neil Mellon, isn't he a great man?

Brings over builders to Africa to build houses.
When he could just donate the resoures and create employment, the locals could build their own houses.

Selling overpriced houses to Irish people. Now caught up in NAMA so owing money indirectly to taxpayers.

But he's a saint I tell ya

The reason he brings Irish workers over is because they're the ones that raise the money for the building projects.

He could employ locals but then wouldn't get people as involved in raising donations and hence get less money for the projects.

It's not about getting people working in a sector with a short lifespan. It's about giving people homes so they can have a half way decent life and feel a bit of pride.

As for the nama lark, every developer I can think of is on their books. I don't see how that has anything to do with charities.

Also, just to get back on topic. I hate the pushy ba@tards too. I had a quick check after some concern "volunteers" came to my door. They were getting an hourly rate and a commission.

Minstrel27 · 21-06-2011 07:28PM

I don't answer my door for anyone unless they call me first to tell me they are on their way.

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLBCbNIDbI

Wow. Two incredibly stupid and heartless bitches.

Azureus · 21-06-2011 07:39PM

The beauty of living in an apartment block *content sigh*

Used to drive me mental, especially the kids collecting for their new club/trip/whatever, because theyd send them all out on the same night to the same houses!! So you would give to the first one fair enough, but then every 20 mins around comes another lil fecker!

Sonnenblumen · 21-06-2011 07:40PM

Door to door fundraising isn't really on anymore bar the odd local Clubs etc.

I'm amazed the 'French' students are still flogging 'art', obviously haven't been found out! Plenty of foolish artlovers still around, probably has something to do with the Irsh love of foreign accents.:D

21-06-2011 07:43PM

The ones collecting on the street bug me. Just walking to work, minding my own business, and some crusty fcuk shuffles across the path in front of me, blocking my way and doing this kind of ironic 'wacky' dance.

Cnuts.

ScumLord · 21-06-2011 07:52PM

Minstrel27 wrote: »

I don't answer my door for anyone unless they call me first to tell me they are on their way.

Wow. Two incredibly stupid and heartless bitches.

Not to worry, Karma eventually catches up on her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhaGrCSq7YM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvbAP0eUFQM

Il Trap · 21-06-2011 07:57PM

Quiet you wrote: »

The reason he brings Irish workers over is because they're the ones that raise the money for the building projects.

He could employ locals but then wouldn't get people as involved in raising donations and hence get less money for the projects.

It's not about getting people working in a sector with a short lifespan. It's about giving people homes so they can have a half way decent life and feel a bit of pride.

As for the nama lark, every developer I can think of is on their books. I don't see how that has anything to do with charities.

Also, just to get back on topic. I hate the pushy ba@tards too. I had a quick check after some concern "volunteers" came to my door. They were getting an hourly rate and a commission.

Agreed that the good intention is there with Niall Mellon Trust but people coming to you asking to help fund their trip of a lifetime under the guise of charity p!sses me off - "We're collecting for needy children in Africa, please sponser us for a tenner".
Eh, no, you're collecting to pay the €4000 flight to Mozambique or wherever to teach A-B-Cs for three weeks! :mad:

There was a teacher in a school I worked in who went to Africa with a charity group to build some houses a few years back. She had students going round with sponser cards - for her!!

blaze1 · 21-06-2011 08:11PM

mikemac wrote: »

If they don't catch me on the doorstep they catch me T bagging in Tesco.

FYP

easyeason3 · 21-06-2011 08:20PM

Electric gates & a barking dog keep them out so it's rare enough I get caught at home.

People at checkouts wreck my head.
People standing in traffic waving a bucket through the windscreen make me want to run them over.
A person with his/ her own foldable chair outside the post office/ shop makes me want to kick it from underneath him/ her.
And those stupid, smiley, sing songy voiced tree huggers with clip boards looking for a direct debit to be set up (while making a weeks wage off it) make me want to rip their arms off & beat them senseless with said arms.

xsiborg · 21-06-2011 08:40PM

actually when i working in a large factory there were collections almost every week for somebodys birthday, somebodys funeral, somebody had a baby, somebody's wife had a baby, somebody collecting for some charity or another that was close to THEIR heart or an organisation or club they were involved in, it was endless!

i was glad to get out of work and get home in the evenings because it got to the stage where i'd bring dinner money plus maybe an extra €10 in coins for "collections money", til some ÁRSE instead of putting down €2 on the first line of a collections card put down €5, and then the looks you got if you put down anything less! :eek:

after a while it just became such a routine that you didnt even ask what they were collecting for any more, the pen and lines were just thrust under your nose and you'd look at what the last person gave, and give the same, or the bag of money was jingled under your nose, with the customary "sign the card!"...

the straws that broke the camels back for me were when i signed the usual "raffle ticket" card, shoved the stub in my pocket and carried on working, only later that night taking my pants off to go to bed and the stub fell out of my pocket-

"raffle to support <insert village here> GUN club"

"jesus if i'd known THAT!" i thought, no way would i have "supported" it!

second time then was some guys manager from another department collecting for the guy's ticket home to another country because he didnt have any money!

i'd never seen this manager before, never mind the guy he was collecting for, so i felt able to give him a rather stern look and tell him jog on! :mad:

doctor evil · 21-06-2011 09:34PM

I don't appreciate it when they knock at my door or invade my personal space on the street.

It is sometimes the most dubious sounding charities as well....

the groutch · 21-06-2011 09:51PM

they've certainly upped their game recently, they're was a guy collecting for a cancer chairty two feet outside the exit of Lidl yesterday (although there's a good chance he was a bogus collector)

Ally Dick · 21-06-2011 09:57PM

My attitude to charities changed when they went from seeking one-off donations to expecting you to sign up to a monthly direct debit. I signed up to two charities - my favourite and my wife's favourite, and that is going to be it...

wolf moon · 21-06-2011 10:04PM

xsiborg wrote: »

actually when i working in a large factory there were collections almost every week for somebodys birthday, somebodys funeral, somebody had a baby, somebody's wife had a baby, somebody collecting for some charity or another that was close to THEIR heart or an organisation or club they were involved in, it was endless!

i hear ya... you actually reminded me of another thread here in ah, someone's bitching about nerdy bollix not bringing sweets when back from holidays..

well, i don't bring sweets, i don't eat sweets at all - i wanna do my job, get paid and fcuk off home at 5;00pm
or that fella who does something he fancies for "charity" looking for "support", me arse... endless indeed.

cassid · 21-06-2011 10:24PM

i was in superquinn a good while back and inside the door there was a lady with a table collecting for a children's charity. I am familiar with children's charity as I do voluntary work for one but never heard of the one she was collecting for. Googled it, when I got home and discovered it was an American charity but they were not based in Ireland at all, I contacted the charity via fb and they said confirmed they have no office nor collect in Ireland. I rang superquinn ( it was a quiet day

) and they were shocked. Both they and the public were supporting an non-existent charity.

Have to say I don't like aggressive fundraisers on the street, I don't like the idea of charities knocking on people's doors, I would never support a charity that use these methods of fundraising.

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