AIBU for shouting piss off to a street fundraisers.

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I am fed up with these people trying to mug me for my bank account every time I walk out of a shop. Today there was 12 of them along my high street, working for 3 different charities and after being asked how I was or am I having a nice day or have I got a spare minute 7 times, I shouted "PISS OFF". I seriously can't cope with it everyday.

AIBU for wanting to land a drop kick to their heads tell them to leave me alone.

I have had the don't you care about starving children line before. I usually answer with 'If I give you money I'll have 2 starving children at home'

I wish they'd all fuck off back to stage school.

Their not called chug gars for nothing

AlistairSim I don't know a single one of my friends who has done it who wasn't an aspiring star...

My brother signs them all with a made up account. Says he can't be bothered to argue with them but there's no way he's going to give them his money.

We did have a lady come to the door once. I was about to say politely No Thanks when my 2 year old DD came to the door and my DH called her back.

She has a Welsh name. The lady was also Welsh and addressed my DH in Welsh. Turns out they're both from the same home town!
Now, I don't mean to be offensive or racist or anything like that, but have you ever heard 2 Welsh people meet each other in another country?
They behave like blood relatives and they talk - my God, they don't shut up

She was invited in, had tea with us, petted my DD and my DS (who also has a "good Welsh name") and generally got on like a house on fire with us all.

We signed up

It is extremely frustrating, but either ignoring them or a firm "No" (I wouldn't bother with the thanks when there are that many of them waiting to accost you) is better than yelling "Piss off!" Although, by all means carry on thinking it :).

They irritate me enormously. If they're really pushy (and some are) I do say that when I give to charity I don't want to pay commission to someone.

Mind you, there is a way of ensuring that they don't approach you - when I was out with my sister no chugger ever approached us, and some would actually turn their backs to us.... because clearly someone in a wheelchair isn't going to be able to donate to charity

I've only ever been stopped once so it's not been a problem for me; however, we do have similar people calling at the house which irritates me. My response is always the same - "at the start of the year we decide how much we can donate to charity, and all of our charitable giving is tied up already this year". It always works (and it is true) - I do, though, invariably give money to people shaking collecting tins as I know they are volunteers.

YABU to have sworn at them.

YANBU to find them very annoying and intrusive. Tin shakers will always get some cash from me and I donate via direct debit to a couple of charities already. But I would never in a million years give away my personal details to one of these chuggers and I always feel sorry for the old dears they do eventually manage to sign up.

I used to work for a large charity that had a policy to not 'chug' (made up verb!) precisely because they thought it was counterproductive. They were certainly very corporate and organised in how they did raise funds, so presume there was some evidence suggesting this was the case.....

I done a days trail for one of these companies back in 2002 when I was in college. Back then it was £25 per sign up. I traisped door to door with them for a day then ran a mile!

I now work for a national charity who employed a company to do this for us. We were given a break down, it was something like £32 to be paid to the agency workers for each sign up. Considering they are asking for a fiver a month it would take us a long time to see the benefits. But it meant we would have their details and could phone them and ask for even more money

I had the pleasure of one knocking on my door. The knew nothing about my work and what support they offered locally, or what our values, objectives etc were. They were awful. Anyway, my worked ditched the tatic very quickly. It wasn't cost effective fundraising and they had recieved a lot of complaints and damaging our image.

YANBU. I have had my path to the station blocked by the same backwards walking twat several times a week for the past six months. I was also followed by one of them before. I usually just ignore them, which takes some restraint, and I don't blame you at all for telling them to piss off.

If they were that bothered about starving children then they should sign themselves up for a direct debit.

yanbu, they piss me off, though you are a bit u for swearing.

only skimmed thread so sorry if repeating but they try and chug you in your own home now!! we had one knocking on the door last night. dh answered and was too polite to tell him to eff off so listened to the whole spiel before saying no thanks.

lesley in an ideal world life would be harmonious and no one would be in the end of verbal abuse, but frankly if you deal in harassment then you do deserve it.

Sara - I agree with those who behave in an extreme fashion. But tbh I think some people think it is okay to treat chuggers in a way they would not treat any other working person for similar behaviour.

Charity muggers, bloody hate them! The ones that knock on your door at 8pm reeling off all your neighbours names that have signed up are the worse!!! Talk about guilt trip!

I usually politely decline but one pestering chugger chose a really bad moment to harass me. I had just walked out of the bank where I had deposited over £1,000 in to the account of the charity I fund raise (voluntarily) for.

I told him that I already had six direct debits to chosen charities (true) and had yesterday spent the day getting soaking wet and freezing cold raising money that I had just banked for my charity. And no, I didn't expect anyone to pay me to raise money for a cause I believed in. Nor was I prepared to donate to any organisation willing to pay people to harass the public in the street.

They are a bloody menace and long term it will not pay these charities to do this. There will be a backlash.

I said to one recently, I support your charity and am happy to give you a cash donation but I don't want to give you my details. He said "but it is only your bank account number and sort code"!!

Hate, hate, hate them. For various reasons, (personal and work), I can walk down our High Street ten times a day. Dodging them constantly gets very wearing.

I'm sure this makes me an awful immoral person but I stop smile widely at them and then when they get to the bit about what charity they support I say 'Oh but I give already give money to them! I'm so sorry, but you have a good day ok!' there is NOTHING they can say even if they don't believe you..kill 'em with kindness

My usual tactic is to look them straight in the eye and tell them I do not sign anything in the street and keep walking. It usually works. I have had one or two comebacks, one similar to AllotmentLottie about how it was only bank details they wanted. I calmly pointed out I have experience fraud on my account and no, would not be giving my details out.

My DD has said I can be a bit scary at times. But I am always polite.

YANBU, bloody chuggers are so annoying. There are some streets i just wont walk down now. Some of them are ridiculously persistent

I live in a city centre apartment. They tailgate into the apartment block and knock on doors, so I am not even safe when at home.

When I asked how they got in, they got defensive and said they had permission from the council.

YANBU.

They were so rude and nasty to me (once) I complained in writing to the Charity and got the usual watery response. They are all temps, though employed by agencies, they have no special relationship to the Charity.

Where I live there are a group of women who accost people with crappy artificial flowers (like a nasty buttonhole flower thing)
One stands on a really busy corner and I got caught up behind someone, she shoved her flowers in my face.
I told her not to, and did she realise how offensive her red and white flowers (and her behaviour) were.

But one really fecked me off, shoving her flowers in my DS face (he's 12 yo) then saying "I hope you have bad luck then"

My inner tiger roared and I said "Don't you dare say that to my child you old cow"

If I was a true MNetter, I'd have thrown her poxy flowers on the ground and stamped on them!