Go fund me

[Livingonhopex]

Long term lurker, NC.
With today's current economic climate, would you donate a tiny amount to a crowd fund which specifically was aiming to raise funds for a deposit for a flat? Small amount, high volume type raiser?

I feel like I'm smacking my head off a brick wall trying to save for a deposit and it's laughable I'm even asking this question because it's ridiculous but I'm just curious about people's opinions of this type of thing?

Thanks

[nottinghamgal]

No!!

[Floggingmolly]

But given today's economic climate; what would set one person's needs above the rest?

[Pentapus]

Huh? Are you bibbitybobbity's twin?

[AddToBasket]

Mmmm. Yes, to my friends. No, to randoms.

I would take a dim view of it in an employee (begging) but perhaps other employers might think it was proactive.

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

I'm getting a sense of deja vu

[DailyMailReadersAreThick]

No.

"Crowdfunding" is just online begging.

[MrsJamesMathews]

OP you know Bibbity and her donors are joking, right?

[Birdsgottaf1y]

I don't think that you'll necessarily get answers that reflect RL.

I've seen posters say that they only give to registered charities and wouldn't give to any cause on GFM.

I wouldn't give to yours, because I don't have much disposable income and tend to give to the one's for children's funerals and similar.

A friend of mine who had been Widowed with children, tried for help towards a Van, so he could work around his children, but got less than a hundred.

[SparklyLeprechaun]

No, sorry. It ranks up there with crowd funding for your wedding /honeymoon /lifetime trip to Vietnam.

[BlueSunGreenMoon]

Nope and I can't stand those type of requests! Once a friend of mine was having a really shit time and another friend started a go fund me to raise some money to help her out. I thought that was very kind and a nice idea and I did donate to that. But the "Please pay for my new car/house/clothes/cosmetic surgery" type ones, I hate.

[Shootfirstaskquestionslater]

In a word No! I had no choice but to save up damn hard for my house but I managed it without begging for money off strangers on the internet.

[Birdsgottaf1y]

"""Crowdfunding" is just online begging.""

I think the difference is that it isn't as intrusive/in your face/disrupting your day, that begging is.

[Asmoto]

Only if I was very rich myself.

[Floggingmolly]

It's still an attempt to extract some of your hard earned cash, birds. Why is it any more acceptable one step removed?

[crazycatgal]

No.

Most people need to save up deposits but don't ask people online to pay it for them. I'd rather go online and donate to a just giving charity page than fund someone's lifestyle.

[pennypickle]

No! Buy your own home the same as everyone else has to. I can't believe the crappy things people beg for on fundraising pages these days.

The past week I have had requests from "Friends" 1. To buy a PA system so their 11 year old DC can do gigs, plus cover the parents petrol costs...2. To raise funds for deposit on a house.... 3. A dance school begging for money to kit their fee paying students out with "Competition Costumes" and 4. To raise funds for a 2 year old child who has a terminal illness whose life could be prolonged if he is able to go to America and pay for specialist treatment. Guess which one I contributed to??

[user1489614864]

No. It's begging online.

[DailyMailReadersAreThick]

pennypickle Craziest one I saw was a group of self-published 'authors' crowdfunding an anthology. What was the money for? To pay them a "salary" while they wrote it.

I don't know why the fuck they think they deserve to be paid a wage for writing when most of the real authors with books in Waterstones still have day jobs.

I hope nobody was stupid enough to contribute.

[DramaAlpaca]

No, absolutely not.

[RainbowsAndUnicorn]

Not a chance, if you want to buy property then work hard and save like the rest of us.

The sense of entitlement of some is astounding.

[user1489614864]

I hate crowdfunding. People are using it for nonsense like 'pay for my holiday'. Pay for your own fecking holiday.

[Floggingmolly]

Irrelevant, really; but how come all this specialist treatment can only be accessed in America? Aren't British doctors trained to the same level?

[Fluffypinkpyjamas]

No

[acatcalledjohn]

Why would I when I can't even afford my own deposit?

You, me and millions of others are in the same boat. To think that people would donate to that sort of stuff to me smacks of entitlement and delusion.