Chugger Infestation
Discussion
Tango13 said:
I was accosted by a chugger once, it didn't end well for her. I was in the town center in full bike leathers, boots etc when a girl with a 'Friends of the Earth' tabbard approached me, before she could start her pitch I opened with the line...
'Before you start love if it means more weather like this i'm all for global warming...'
It went rapidly downhill from that point onwards.
Gary Glitter?'Before you start love if it means more weather like this i'm all for global warming...'
It went rapidly downhill from that point onwards.
MitchT said:
The RNLI springs to mind for me too. If the government got involved inept committees would be installed, civil service politics would run rampant and the whole lot would cost so much in administration there'd be nothing left for lifeboats and fuel.
Perhaps you could explain why they are now fundraising for third world water safett training?Anyway, I just tell them all "I don't talk to chuggers."
Why the juddering f
k would I give my bank details to a stranger in the street?? They can all fk right off, regardless of cause.
I donate to a handful of charities that are close to my heart for a variety of reasons. (McMillan, British Heart Foundation, and Guide Dogs for the Blind). The day I give my hard earnt cash to save the lesser spotted polar bear of Outer Bumblefk is along way away.
They get a simple 'No' with accompanying snarl from me.
k would I give my bank details to a stranger in the street?? They can all fk right off, regardless of cause. I donate to a handful of charities that are close to my heart for a variety of reasons. (McMillan, British Heart Foundation, and Guide Dogs for the Blind). The day I give my hard earnt cash to save the lesser spotted polar bear of Outer Bumblef
k is along way away. They get a simple 'No' with accompanying snarl from me.
I have my charity of choice (an organisation closer to my heart than most). 'My' charity, as it were, doesn't chug. In dealing with chuggers, I simply keep walking and say 'no thank you'. On the rare occasion they've pursued me, I simply tell them they're not the charity I choose to support, then walk on. It's possible to move on without being rude.
I do agree, though, that chugging is spiralling out of control.
I do agree, though, that chugging is spiralling out of control.
They have just banned them in the town centre where I live, odd really considering the raft of other vermin that infests the filthy streets chosen by the collectors.
http://www.morleyobserver.co.uk/news/local/charity...
http://www.morleyobserver.co.uk/news/local/charity...
We got "chugged" yesterday.
We were walking passed one holding a bucket when we got accosted.
I was happy to walk on, but Wifey stops and gets her purse out go give some change when Chug pipes up "We are not actually collecting cash today, we are simply asking for text message donations of £2, £5 or £10". Mrs Litres gets her phone out and donates £2. I'm getting bored as we don't have much time before the parking runs out.
As soon as the text is sent, she says "Great, you will soon get a call from one of my colleagues to confirm the gift aid donation and to discuss some of the great work we are doing with [x-y-z] so if you can spare anything on a monthly direct debit it will really help us" [blah blah]
Oh how we love these charity sales calls. I think we'll walk on by next time.
We were walking passed one holding a bucket when we got accosted.
I was happy to walk on, but Wifey stops and gets her purse out go give some change when Chug pipes up "We are not actually collecting cash today, we are simply asking for text message donations of £2, £5 or £10". Mrs Litres gets her phone out and donates £2. I'm getting bored as we don't have much time before the parking runs out.
As soon as the text is sent, she says "Great, you will soon get a call from one of my colleagues to confirm the gift aid donation and to discuss some of the great work we are doing with [x-y-z] so if you can spare anything on a monthly direct debit it will really help us" [blah blah]
Oh how we love these charity sales calls. I think we'll walk on by next time.
I ignore them completely, don't bother to even say no thanks - why should you? They're harassing you.
by the way this annoyed me in a similar way - the other week (no really) I took some clothes into oxfam. The woman harassed me in the same way wanting me to give my details so they could get 25% extra of the value for what they sold for through the gift aid tax relief. I had to say no I wasn't interested about 4 times and all I was doing was dropping a bag of stuff off! How does she know I even work I might be a bum. I don't know if the gift aid can really work in that manner and if it can't then it really was a scam to get my name and address. Tossers
by the way this annoyed me in a similar way - the other week (no really) I took some clothes into oxfam. The woman harassed me in the same way wanting me to give my details so they could get 25% extra of the value for what they sold for through the gift aid tax relief. I had to say no I wasn't interested about 4 times and all I was doing was dropping a bag of stuff off! How does she know I even work I might be a bum. I don't know if the gift aid can really work in that manner and if it can't then it really was a scam to get my name and address. Tossers
CoolHands said:
I ignore them completely, don't bother to even say no thanks - why should you? They're harassing you.
I don't know if the gift aid can really work in that manner and if it can't then it really was a scam to get my name and address. Tossers
This isn't a scam. They put specific labels on your goods which basically enable them to "account" for the gift aid part of the takings. And, to be fair, St. Peter's Hospice haven't used my details for any other purpose since.I don't know if the gift aid can really work in that manner and if it can't then it really was a scam to get my name and address. Tossers
Agree about the chuggers though, i've been close to t
tting one or two of them as I'm walking along in a world of my own- Someone suddenly appears right in my personal space and it's a bit instinctive to extend one's arms rapidly in their direction...
CoolHands said:
I ignore them completely, don't bother to even say no thanks - why should you? They're harassing you.
by the way this annoyed me in a similar way - the other week (no really) I took some clothes into oxfam. The woman harassed me in the same way wanting me to give my details so they could get 25% extra of the value for what they sold for through the gift aid tax relief. I had to say no I wasn't interested about 4 times and all I was doing was dropping a bag of stuff off! How does she know I even work I might be a bum. I don't know if the gift aid can really work in that manner and if it can't then it really was a scam to get my name and address. Tossers
It can. They take your name and address and all your donations will then be 'tagged' as being your donations. If and when they are sold they will then claim the gift aid on the amount your donations were sold for. Depending on the charity you might even get a letter through when your donations have sold tell you how much they raised.by the way this annoyed me in a similar way - the other week (no really) I took some clothes into oxfam. The woman harassed me in the same way wanting me to give my details so they could get 25% extra of the value for what they sold for through the gift aid tax relief. I had to say no I wasn't interested about 4 times and all I was doing was dropping a bag of stuff off! How does she know I even work I might be a bum. I don't know if the gift aid can really work in that manner and if it can't then it really was a scam to get my name and address. Tossers
EDIT: I don't know how I missed that the answer was already posted.
HTP99 said:
The wife always get sucked in.
Watch them at work, they tend to only go for females.
One of them managed to get a fiver out of my then 13 yo, for some crappy badge and all proceeds go to xyz, I was not happy.
What's a 13 year old doing with a fiver?Watch them at work, they tend to only go for females.
One of them managed to get a fiver out of my then 13 yo, for some crappy badge and all proceeds go to xyz, I was not happy.
Edited by HTP99 on Friday 24th October 19:36
When I were 13, I had to lick the road clean before I went to school!
Nouns and verbs, in this particular situation the noun is better.
Still racking my marble for a good defence if you did actually thump one of them of which I was very tempted to do.
Still I did send a snot-o-gram to save the children who actually state they probably won't respond to it and to the local town council explaining why their town centre is dying. Will now avoid like the plague and buy online.
Still racking my marble for a good defence if you did actually thump one of them of which I was very tempted to do.
Still I did send a snot-o-gram to save the children who actually state they probably won't respond to it and to the local town council explaining why their town centre is dying. Will now avoid like the plague and buy online.
I love chuggers, i particularly enjoy baiting them. The soon to be Lady Slopes gets quite cross when i go into chugger baiting mode.
Last one i baited would not leave us alone despite three polite no thank you's and so i decided to play with her
Me: okay, so you want a donation?
Her: yes please
Me:before i do donate, how about you match whatever i put in
Her: what?
Me: if you believe in your charity, why don't you match my donation.
Her: what?
Me: are you mentally deficient? It's a simple question.
At this point soon to be Lady Slopes dragged me away and scolded me for winding the poor women up, i thought it was hilarious.
Last one i baited would not leave us alone despite three polite no thank you's and so i decided to play with her
Me: okay, so you want a donation?
Her: yes please
Me:before i do donate, how about you match whatever i put in
Her: what?
Me: if you believe in your charity, why don't you match my donation.
Her: what?
Me: are you mentally deficient? It's a simple question.
At this point soon to be Lady Slopes dragged me away and scolded me for winding the poor women up, i thought it was hilarious.
As with others here, my office is in a city centre and every lunchtime I have to walk through a barrage of chuggers in order to reach any of my preferred food retailers. I did go through a period of ignoring them but now play a game of distracting them from their script by speaking first.
The idea came to me after I was approached by a female chugger with open arms and uttering the line of 'can i have a hug?' My response was ' yes, but I may get a semi'- I thought it only polite to warn her. She quickly closed her arms and I walked past unimpeded.
I have noticed that the male chuggers tend to pounce on female punters and vice versa, so as I am approaching the chuggers if one of the females looks in my direction I pick up on something about her appearance. They are often dressed as though they are extras from a sixties hippie film and/or they have at least one 'interesting' visible piercing.
In that brief moment when they catch your eye but have yet to start their sales pitch I say something like ' My mum used to wear shoes like those' or ' you look really cold without a coat'. This always makes them stop for a second to try and process a response, meanwhile I have continued without breaking stride and am well past them on my way to my lunch.
I try not to reuse my lines and thinking of new ones as I approach chuggers does help to brighten up my lunchtime walks.
The idea came to me after I was approached by a female chugger with open arms and uttering the line of 'can i have a hug?' My response was ' yes, but I may get a semi'- I thought it only polite to warn her. She quickly closed her arms and I walked past unimpeded.
I have noticed that the male chuggers tend to pounce on female punters and vice versa, so as I am approaching the chuggers if one of the females looks in my direction I pick up on something about her appearance. They are often dressed as though they are extras from a sixties hippie film and/or they have at least one 'interesting' visible piercing.
In that brief moment when they catch your eye but have yet to start their sales pitch I say something like ' My mum used to wear shoes like those' or ' you look really cold without a coat'. This always makes them stop for a second to try and process a response, meanwhile I have continued without breaking stride and am well past them on my way to my lunch.
I try not to reuse my lines and thinking of new ones as I approach chuggers does help to brighten up my lunchtime walks.
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