Nice Gesture, Or Crass Commercial Exploitation ?

[Canary42]

https://www.danburymint.co.uk/product/bear-cares-steiff/?mcode=FB583&utm_source=MBI&;utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=TBWC-FB583&fbclid=IwAR3UgG6vivgki34O_bzq1MMKZtD3wZbQxlFJ5qljDoaRb-qSNil-p1LuBDI

You judge.

[Theland]

For people with more money than sense.

[Spicerack]

Cute. I suppose it depends on how much from each sale goes to charity.

[Cloverjo]

I’m not sure who you’re referring to, ynnaf.

I felt a bit ill on reading the OP. £200 for a toy bear in a nurse outfit? Shameless marketing.

[THECORBYLOON]

They say they have donated £10,000 to NHS Charities so far but it's not clear if a percentage of the purchase price goes to charity or no.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh go on. I hear that everyone likes a sexy bear nurse.

[Mamyalynne]

It would have been nicer to have stated how much (if anything) is going to help the NHS workers per bear sold.

[albaqwerty]

Shameless marketing imo
Can't find out what % of bear goes to charity (info may be out there but can't be bothered digging)
The £10,000 already donated doesn't give a time-scale, is it £10,000 in January this year, for example, or £10,000 since the NHS was founded?

[woofgang]

crass commercial exploitation

[Prudie]

It's crass and commercial. Steiff bears are world famous and an investment but nothing suggests a percentage of this particular sale goes to charity. If it did it would be far more obvious.

[albaqwerty]

if Danbury Mint have the same % as they did for the H4H bracelet, then a very small amount will be donated.
5% of the invoice price.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=934480

[ladybirder]

I want one.

[jno]

I'm sure arctophiles will want them.. I can't see why their hobby would be more or less stupid than philately or collecting Barbie dolls..

[Theland]

If people have money to burn, why not buy a toy bear for a couple of quid and give the rest to charity?

[Mamyalynne]

Some people do both.

[jno]

Over half of the Danbury Mint's profits support mental health research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danbury_Mint

So they're not ungenerous.

[Mozz71]

//I always like the way i get onto him and he suddenly scuttles back under his/her rock.Look at the way he/she changed his/her avatar after i laughed at him.A sad individual.//

Wow. Being a bully is one thing, but being a proud and unrepentant bully? Well that's a whole new level of douchebaggery.