Would you trust a donation collector with card on phone as much as with cash?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40054558

by chrisjj • 2 years ago

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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• 2 years ago

Not 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.

chrisjj3• 2 years ago

Good point. Many are unaware of the ease of linking their card face info with contact details.

vba6162• 2 years ago

Presumably 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".

chrisjj3• 2 years ago

Sorry. 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.

chrisjj3• 2 years ago

PS Come to think of it, I have never seen a charity shop in any of the many countries I have visited outside UK. All the more remarkable given in the UK they are so frequent and often large.

Would you trust a donation collector with card on phone as much as with cash?

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