FabSwingers.com forum: 12.20 and I've just been pissed off by Santa

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I was in Sainsbury's and there was a Santa collecting for Cancer Research (whom I might add I donate £25 a month to) and as I walked past him he literally waved the collection bucket in my face...I declined saying "I have no change" at which point he pulled out a chip and pin machine. Now I'll give him a 10 for ingenuity but I was absolutely insensed by his behaviour.

Was I in the wrong to be annoyed for feeling pressured to donate??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I donate to several charities and have had phone calls in the past with pressure to increase the amounts.. I was so irritated i asked to reduced my donation

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"I was in Sainsbury's and there was a Santa collecting for Cancer Research (whom I might add I donate £25 a month to) and as I walked past him he literally waved the collection bucket in my face...I declined saying "I have no change" at which point he pulled out a chip and pin machine. Now I'll give him a 10 for ingenuity but I was absolutely insensed by his behaviour.

Was I in the wrong to be annoyed for feeling pressured to donate??"

Nope.

I don't do 'chuggers'.

If charities didn't have to pay people to be professional fund raisers/shopping centre guilt trippers then there'd be more for the causes.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Yes.

You led him on.

You said I have no change and so he helped you donate by getting out his machine.

You could have said No thanks.

Or ..... I already donate.

But you made out you weren't donating cos you had no change.

I'm waiting for my window cleaner to get a machine.

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

I often have no change but do give at other times. If I were you I’d complain to the manager about the behaviour of Santa. People are struggling to buy food and heat their homes and being pressurised into making a donation is wrong. It’s meant to be the season big goodwill not bullyboy tactics.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

In what way did I lead him on???

How dare he pull a chip and pin machine stunt on me...that should have been willingly displayed next to him!!

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Was I in the wrong to be annoyed for feeling pressured to donate??"

It's called charity mugging. I wont walk down Bristol high street anymore because every time I do I end spending the best part of £20 on random causes.

I walk away feeling the same way as you.

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

Was I in the wrong to be annoyed for feeling pressured to donate??

It's called charity mugging. I wont walk down Bristol high street anymore because every time I do I end spending the best part of £20 on random causes.

I walk away feeling the same way as you.

Yep.

Not that we can go into Bristol anymore without being mugged by Marvin for £9.....

Every time someone jumps out and says 'Big Issue ?' to me whilst wearing more expensive trainers than I own and holding an iPhone 14 in their other hand, I just reply with "the current price of diesel and the fact there's no Krispy Kreme shop anywhere near home."

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

I think it's a bit pushy

I've volunteered and collected for Macmillan in the past and I just tried to smile and appear approachable in case people want to donate.

I found many people would usually anyway without me asking .

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"Nope.

I don't do 'chuggers'.

If charities didn't have to pay people to be professional fund raisers/shopping centre guilt trippers then there'd be more for the causes.

It’s worse than that even… charities don’t pay people to be chuggers. Chuggers work for a company that charges the charity to organise people to collect. The terms are so horrendous, the 1st 3 YEARS of donations go to the chugging company and only if the DD still stands, do the charities start getting any money.

*it works on the hopes that you’ll never cancel

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By *ildmanYorksMan
over a year ago

Doncaster & Bembridge

I donate regularly to a few charities and occasionally in-store or street collections if it's a cause I believe in. What I don't like are the "organised" charity events such as Children in Need and Comic Relief where you are hounded and made to feel guilty if you don't cough up.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"In what way did I lead him on???

How dare he pull a chip and pin machine stunt on me...that should have been willingly displayed next to him!!"

Then you should've said....... I don't have a card.

I find that an honest no ..... is enough.

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By *lubchuckerMan
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

The buskers, beggars and street sleepers in Oxford are now using chip and pin, have been since before first lockdown

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I read that as "pissed on by Santa"....

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

"I read that as "pissed on by Santa"...."

New kink unlocked.

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By *EAT..85Woman
over a year ago

Nottingham

I fundraise on occasion, and book fundraisers in as well. They are are not allowed to shake collection pots/ buckets. I put a sign up saying that I have a card machine which many people don't read but DO use when they realise they can pay by card! I don't book in charities that use paid collectors

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By *oo..Woman
over a year ago

Boo's World

Just pisses me off full stop that they sit by the doors so when you're trying to get out the shop with all your shopping and starving hungry then do they pounce on people.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just pisses me off full stop that they sit by the doors so when you're trying to get out the shop with all your shopping and starving hungry then do they pounce on people. "

Yes, same thing with the security guards when you 'forget' to swipe a few things through self service.

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By *ansexualPandaMan
over a year ago

Near You

"I read that as "pissed on by Santa"...."

I did the opposite and pissed on Santa in his grotto, in front of hundreds of people waiting in the queue in Milton Keynes shopping centre. I'd been waiting over an hour for my turn and d*unk a full supersized Mac Dees Cola. Sitting down on his lap I couldn't hold, I just let it go, much to his and my own distress.

It's up to you if you believe that I was 6 or 36

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