Like most we are always getting unwanted clothes collection bags through the door which I always read 1st to make sure that it is a genuine charity and not just someone out to line their own pockets.:skp: More often than not you have to read the small print to find this out. To day i recieved one which on the front reads 'we save the children will you' Its written on a red strip in white making it look like save the children motiff, the only difference is that the 'we' and the 'will you' is in black print. I'm afraid I'm a suspicious person by nature so I have to read all the small print. This is what i found, 'your donations will be used to generate stock in our shops across the UK. Stock not used in our shops will be sold to raise funds for SAVE THE CHILDRN'. :skp::skp::skp:. Am I right to be suspicious? or am I reading to much into things. I would love to hear other peoples thoughts on this matter :thku: 02
You're right to be suspicious 02, some of those bags we get are from profit making companies collecting for themselves and only make a small donation to the charity - you have to read the small print. They make it look as though its for one of the big well know charities. We put our surplus stuff in an Oxfam collection point at the supermarket as we don't trust these unsolicited bag collections.
I use the bags they shove through the door as bin liners:wink: If they want to pay someone to deliver them and pay for the cost of producing them, that's their choice, but to me its a free bin liner. But you're right to be suspicious - its profit making companies trading on most of us having busy lives and little time to take unwanted clothes to the charity shop, added to a throwaway, consumer society.
I use the bags as bin liners as well. We can have as many as 7 in a week. I take all our stuff we don't want to the charity shops. I don't give to door collections or tins either anymore. I wouldn't trust them.
Nope - you are right. 9/10 bags through our door are from profit making "crooks" as I call them. If I have a bag to go out, I put them in the Sally Ann or Hampshire Air Ambulance bins by the bottle bank - or take them to the charity shops myself. I NEVER give these guys anything. And, yes, it makes my blood boil too!!!!!!!!!
We had a leaflet through the door asking for clothes etc. I was right annoyed to read the bit that said something like 'please no books as the content may not be in line with the teachings of Islam' (no joke). I respect people's beliefs but I refuse to give anything to a charity that would put religious principles before the welfare of kids.
You are right 02 not all of them are genuine the genuine ones have a charity number on them and usually states the percentage that is given to that charity,it would not be worth charities employing people to collect and recycle for themselves these companies do all the leg work so to speak and of course does keep them in employment.Charity shops are a good way of recycling your unwanted goods that way you remove the element of doubt.
I take my stuff to the local charity shop, however, giving to these guys is still better than throwing it in the bin. They are trying to make a living like anyone else, it might be wrong to mislead folk into thinking they are a charity, but you don't want the stuff and they do... it's the modern form of the rag and bone men of old!
Like I said they've clocked onto a market of us all being too busy to take unwanted clothing to the charity shop, but its trouble free to leave it at your front door.
