Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33490964

by druml • 11 years ago

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batou4• 11 years ago

The 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.

linuxydave4• 11 years ago

yeah, 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• 11 years ago

In many cases, they aren't: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...

davidgerard• 11 years ago

Yeah, 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.

roflchoppa• 11 years ago

Shame, I'm just trying to have the red cross stop calling my house about blood donations.. ill give blood, just stop calling me.

richmarr• 11 years ago

The 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.

Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

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