No More Donations
By marcyaz
@Marcyaz (35316)
United States
April 9, 2016 10:34am CST
I sent a donation a while back to an organization and now I am being bombarded with organizations wanting me to donate through snail mail.
I am taking whatever they are sending me which is mostly birthday cards and throwing away everything else.
Since I did not ask for them they will receive nothing from me.
Some of them have nickels in them and I am keeping the nickel and nothing else.
Have you found when you send a donation thru the mail that you seem to then have everyone else wanting a donation from you also.
I am not rich and even if I was I do not like them trying to take advantage of me.
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11 responses
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
9 Apr 16
That is a terrible thing for these places to do, but that is what they do.
I get some in the mail also, and some I keep, things like religious cards.
Now i have tons of those places contacting me by mail.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
9 Apr 16
@TiarasOceanView
It is a terrible thing for them to do but now they will receive nothing from me ever again.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
10 Apr 16
@TiarasOceanView
Well you know if they send things to entice us to donate it makes me not want to donate all that more.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
9 Apr 16
@Marcyaz Yes its bad alright that they do this Marcy. I usually keep the cards and collect them lolz..one day I am going to make a collage haha
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@ricki_911 (21625)
• Toronto, Ontario
9 Apr 16
I know people who get this kind of mail.They tend to prey on the older who think they sent me a nickel I need to send them $100.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
9 Apr 16
@ricki_911
I take the nickle and they receive nothing in return because I never asked for that.
@ricki_911 (21625)
• Toronto, Ontario
9 Apr 16
@Marcyaz That is what I do. Iam sure they loose more nickels .
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@euphie (573)
• Ballymena, Northern Ireland
10 Apr 16
A lot of charities are like this - the more you send, the more they seem to expect. I also get random calls from people claiming to be from charities looking for donations and even if t was a charity I supported, their ways of going about things makes me less inclined to want to donate.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
9 Apr 16
A few of my ladies were giving to dozens of places. Said they want to help out. I tell them than not much of the donation they get actually goes to the cause of what they are promoting. Most of it goes to administrative costs.
Once you start sending money to even one, you'll get many more requesting money too. They sell their mailing lists as a way to generate more money for the organization.
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
9 Apr 16
@ElusiveButterfly
I have heard about the administrative costs and that is even more reason not to give.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
28 Sep 16
I donated a small amt now i ha ve got phone calls asking for donations for police, for vets, for this that and the othe things. I m not wealthy Im here in the retirement center on my social securrity and ssi check so I have v ery little extra money so stop already
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Apr 16
yeah I get annoyed when they sell my address, but I do like free address labels eheheh
@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
23 May 16
I don't really get anything through the mail but email yes. Quite a lot and those damn phone calls DAILY asking me to give to a charity or enter a raffle. I can't do it. Not because I don't care but because I have been screwed by an organisation before and I just don't have trust in people who do that.
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
24 May 16
@VivaLaDani13
Isn't it awful how they will take advantage of us if we let them. No more, I now refuse to give to a charity as it seems you give to one and your name goes on some kind of list to a number of different charaties.
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 16
It's because mailing lists are sold.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
9 Apr 16
@Mike197602
You would think when a person makes a donation they would no sell your name on a mailing list. That to me is very dishonest.
