Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities • Hacker News Board

Re: Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

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Post by batou » Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

linuxydave wrote: post #10

batou wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone's in the right job. You just have to find customers who don't know how much everyone else charges :)

Haha, cynical but true. Reminds me of this: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Free-State-govt-We-pa... (R40m is ~$3,211,291)

Wow now that's special!

Re: Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

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Post by davidgerard » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 6:17 PM UTC

batou wrote: post #2

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…

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.

Re: Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

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Post by roflchoppa » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 9:16 PM UTC

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

Re: Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

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Post by richmarr » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 9:25 AM UTC

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.