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From: "valerie bower" <>
Subject: Re: [trivvies] Charities
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:38:02 +1100
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They look so pathetic!
Val xx



> I'd run mile !!
>
> Pat.xxx :o))
> Your county needs YOU !!! http://freecen.rootsweb.com
>
> How would you feel about someone in a Koala suit??
> All saggy too !
> Val xx
>
>
>
> I really hate being accosted in the street, or outside the
supermarket
> by
> people shaking charity tins under my nose & I avoid like the plaque
> people
> with clipboards, be they market researchers or charity collectors.
>
> I just feel that when someone thrusts a tin in my face, I have to
put
> money
> in it, even if it's a charity I'd rather not support. There are only
2
> that
> I make an exception for - Leukaemia research & the Royal British
> Legion who
> sell poppies for Remembrance Day.
>
> Pat.xxx :o))
>
> Your county needs YOU !!! http://freecen.rootsweb.com
>
> In my area of the UK we too get people trying to collect in the
> street.
> There is a new breed of Charity collector employed via agencies by
> assorted
> charities. They were recently "exposed" on a consumer program.
>
> These people go around the shopping areas trying to persuade you to
> sign up
> to pay by Direct debit for the charities. All completely genuine
but
> these
> people are getting paid somewhere in the region of £30 a day for
doing
> this.
>
> You try telling them you give directly to the charity already, and
> they dont
> like it. So next time be aware that these people are not all the
> seem to
> be.
>
> I give directly to the charities I want to I would never sign up in
> the high
> street.
>
> Sharon.
>
>
>
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