To be cheesed off with Save the Children?

[2cats2many]

One of their adverts was on TV last night asking people to text and donate £5 to Save the Children. As well as my regular monthly donations to a couple of charities, I do respond to these kinds of appeals occasionally and so texted the number and donated the fiver.

I was v.v.v. cheesed off today at work to recieve a call on my mobile from Save the Children wanting to persuade me to sign up to a regular donation tell me about some of their projects. I told the chugger person that I was at work and couldn't take the call.

Quite honestly, if I'd thought for a moment that they would do that I wouldn' have made the donation. I'm reasonably generous with charities, but hate being on the recieving end of a hard sell. Its put me right off making these kinds of spontaneous text donations ever again, which has really cheesed me off.

AIBU? I don't think I am.

YANBU, you basically paid £5 to be spammed. Not exactly a great purchase!

I made an online donation to UNICEF and they had one of this boxes to uncheck if you don't want spam. It was phrased in a really odd way and I ha to reanit a couple of times to figure out whether to check or uncheck. That annoyed me!

Yanbu - they shouldn't use your number for that purpose although there is probably fine print on the advert in teeny tiny letters that says they will

So many errors in that post - hope you got the gist!

YANBU.

I filled in a petition on here a few weeks ago for the Children's Society, supporting Free School Meals. They have called me every day for 2 weeks now, (I've programmed the number into my phone, so just send it straight to voicemail). It makes you regret supporting some charities - you give / support, but they just want more and more.

I work p/t and give 15% of my net salary to various charities. I don't want to sign up for any more.