Raffle Tickets

[slinky.kate]

I am getting sent raffle tickets every other day for every charity going,would you send them back?or buy them?i know its for a good cause but this is getting to the ridiculous stage.

[Zeuhl]

Just ignore them and stick them in the recycling if you don't want to support the charity

they won't want the hassle or expense of receiving them back

[Baldric]

Get 'em every year and I just bin them!

[Stockethill]

I had one yesterday and one today. I've stuck a label on them saying "Return To Sender"

[davetuc]

Me too. File them under B!

[slinky.kate]

I have been posting them back in case they think I kept the money for them

[gness]

Slinky...much as I try to support certain charities I hate raffle tickets, pens and suchlike coming through the post....Do they really make enough money this way to justify the waste when we bin them?

[Baldric]

Well if you're going to send them back, don't put a stamp on them.

[Zeuhl]

/Do they really make enough money this way to justify the waste when we bin them?/

YES - they are a very successful method of raising money for 'good causes'

That's why they do them!


/Well if you're going to send them back, don't put a stamp on them. /

Why would anyone want to deliberately cost a charity money?

[2sp_]

Funnily enough I just got a pile of (unsoliceted) stuff in the post from the Red Cross. Envelope contained two greetings cards, two coasters and a pen and a plea for a donation.

I try to give to charity where I can, but I object to this guilt tripping that some organisations seem to be dishing out.

I'd rather they didn't go to the expense of sending me this stuff and kept the money for better causes.

[2sp_]

unsoliceted??? unsolicited...

[Zeuhl]

/I'd rather they didn't go to the expense of sending me this stuff and kept the money for better causes./

I agree with your response to that type of mailing

but the reality is that those campaigns are carefully tested to deliver incremental income over and above what they cost.

The charity will be trying various data modelling methods to predict and avoid the people who will not respond but that is easier said than done.

[ummmm]

I hate the guilt trip....

[2sp_]

I always feel guilty about not sending money back, ummmm. I try to give where I can, but I'm not made of money! I can't give to everything that pops through the letterbox.

Then I have the added guilt surrounding either keeping the endless pens or chucking them out.

[Psybbo]

Yes the raffle tickets annoy me and the continue to send them in spite of being asked not to. I also dislike being asked to include them in my will.

[slinky.kate]

2sp.i got the same as you last week from the people who paint with there mouths,it had xmas cards,stickers,calender etc in it but wanted £12.50 if I kept them

[Zeuhl]

Me too ummm

like a number of things the charities do, it might deliver the best yield now for the Cause, but in the long run it will harm them

[gness]

I received that package too, 2sp....as did many of my friends. None of us donated....what a waste.
Still to be convinced about its worth.

[2sp_]

What a cheek, kate!

I thought that companies couldn't do that - send you goods that you haven't asked for and demand money for you to keep them?

Maybe I'm wrong? Or are charities allowed to push you into buying stuff?

[Zeuhl]

/xmas cards,stickers,calender etc in it but wanted £12.50 if I kept them/

kate

console yourself with the knowledge that they have projected for the majority of people to ignore it - and they will still make money for the cause from the minority who do give

[ummmm]

It's big issue sellers that get me. In the doors of a supermarket. You walk out with bags full of food, that you paid with on a card, and you have no actual cash....