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Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities
- batou 11y agoThe one time I dumped a £3 donation via SMS my number was basically call bombed afterwards. After the 15th call in under 24 hours, some at unsociable hours, I took the SIM out and threw it away and signed up for another giffgaff account (I have a few SIMs lying around). This was for one of those "international crisis" ones. I tend to tell them all to bugger off now. If you're going to shit on me for being nice, I don't want to know. My mother was a victim as well. Had someone call her all sorts of names for cancelling a direct debit that they'd "miscalculated" on purpose. I managed to get the caller's identity and company and sent a nasty email to their directors. Got a cheque back for the lot. Sod the charity.
- linuxydave 11y agoyeah, it gets frustrating when you're bombarded with calls by them as well as those PPI/whatever robocalls. I've cancelled my donations to several charities because of their harassment and their pushiness makes me wonder if they are actually using their money on the people they're claiming to help :/
- milesskorpen 11y agoIn many cases, they aren't: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...
- linuxydave 11y ago>:(
- batou 11y agoThis doesn't surprise me. Back in about 2002 the company i worked for built a shitty intranet for a major high street charity in the UK. Cost them £100,000...
- linuxydave 11y agoI'm in the wrong job... :p
- batou 11y agoEveryone's in the right job. You just have to find customers who don't know how much everyone else charges :)
- linuxydave 11y agoHaha, cynical but true. Reminds me of this: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Free-State-govt-We-paid-R40m-for-website-20130304 http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Free-State-govt-We-pa... (R40m is ~$3,211,291)
- batou 11y agoWow now that's special!
- davidgerard 11y agoYeah, playing silly buggers with direct debits is a good way for them to get cut off from using direct debits at all, so I'm not surprised they refunded it ASAP.
- avoidhnipblock 11y agoWhen they call I just tell them I need to put them on hold for a moment whilst I get my account details, then leave them hanging. One even held on for 46 minutes.
- roflchoppa 11y agoShame, I'm just trying to have the red cross stop calling my house about blood donations.. ill give blood, just stop calling me.
- richmarr 11y agoThe fundamental problem here is that the charitable sector is packed full of moral hazard, broken incentivisation, inefficiency, lack of transparency, and ignorance of customer needs. There are very few markets where I'm willing to go as far as using the word "broken". One is insurance (which is why I helped found Guevara) the other is charity.