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Would you trust a donation collector with card on phone as much as with cash?
Assume you would donate £10 cash to a charity shop collector's tin labelled Help for the Homeless.
Now how likely if the collector was offering only a smartphone showing this screen https://givetap.co.uk/taptopay needing your payment card?
- JohnFen 3y agoNot in a million years, no. Cash is king for this sort of thing. My aversion comes from the risk of disclosure that I'm the sort of person who gives money to charity. I learned firsthand that getting on that sort of list is hell, and I won't take the chance again.
- chrisjj 3y agoGood point. Many are unaware of the ease of linking their card face info with contact details.
- vba616 3y agoPresumably it was meant literally, but the term "charity shop collector" seems to have some other meanings as well which are interesting to me as a non-UKian speaker: - A provider of "a charity shop back-end as a service", which disposes of donations received by charity shops. e.g. https://live.ctrgroup.co.uk/third-sector/textiles-collection/ - A person who collects things purchased from charity shops. e.g. "Harding is an avid charity shop collector, especially of sad and neglected ceramic animals".
- chrisjj 3y agoSorry. By 'charity shop' I meant a retail outlet operated by a charity. By 'collector' here I mean someone who collects monetary donations in such a shop.
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