Charity collection bags

[HerMajesty]

..and as for thier methods of getting your cash; I'll not get started on "chuggers"

We never get bags delivered here in the country....and what the heck are chuggers??

[pique]

Kim

We never had a charity bag in our 12 years in the countryside. Now we have moved to the 'smoke' (Camborne) its one a week. I reckon they probably don't like the 'hills' of Mevagissey ......................... or it could be 4!

[bykimbo]

We never get bags delivered here in the country....and what the heck are chuggers??

CHarity mUGGERS. People who rattle tins under your nose and virtually demand a contribution. Against all the rules of charity collection. You're barely supposed to move. We had a big fuss here when we did a collection with a neighbouring RNLI branch, and one of the collectors made a sarky comment to a member of the public who chose not to give. I would encourage anybody who feels they've been confronted with an aggressive or pushy collector to complain to the charity - they should take it very seriously.

[bykimbo]

It's not 4! They don't notice anything!

I'd have expected you to be right about that, but you're out-voted so far.

[CelynCrafts]

Some of the collectors are also collecting bags of clothes for them selves to steam , bag up and sell on at £1 each or so, normally sold in batches of 100. I think someone on here is selling them, may not be there fault though If they are conned into buying a batch like we were.

[booksforsale]

[QUOTE=bykimbo;1150950]Originally Posted by HerMajesty
We never get bags delivered here in the country....and what the heck are chuggers??[/QUOTE]

CHarity mUGGERS. People who rattle tins under your nose and virtually demand a contribution. Against all the rules of charity collection. You're barely supposed to move. We had a big fuss here when we did a collection with a neighbouring RNLI branch, and one of the collectors made a sarky comment to a member of the public who chose not to give. I would encourage anybody who feels they've been confronted with an aggressive or pushy collector to complain to the charity - they should take it very seriously.

@ HerMajesty

Nowadays it usually refers to the next step up. When you are walking through the Shopping Area of any big town or city, you might get accosted by an over-enthusiastic charity worker trying to get you to sign up to make a regular direct debit payment to whichever charity they happen to be working for that day. I don't know the exact ins and outs of it, but I believe there is a company the charities approach, who will provide workers for this - in other words if you are harrased and make a complaint about it, the charities can say "nowt to do with me guv"

These people have become a real nuisance, and can be quite forceful, intimidating and simply rude.

Go to Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chugger and scroll down to "Criticisms"

I vaguely remember WH Smith were going to allow chuggers into the shop, or at least to canvass people on their way in/out - talk about shooting yourself in the foot!

[humanist]

I find these bags are ideal dust covers for the stuff I store in my loft.

[RonOne]

Saves buying bin liners

See, every cloud has a silver lining.

Or every bin has a plastic lining



Seriously, the big charities have lost sight and are rotten from the bottom up and back down again.

So if I put my smelly household rubbish in one of the "Suspect" charity bags,
and they take them away,
would they stop leaving them ?