Go fund me...people taking the piss

[Wonders71]

Someone on fb has set up a go fund me page for her best friend to get married the write up says how they are soulmates they have been together years and their dream is to get married but with working long hours and family commitments and paying bills they are asking for donations! I think it's a piss take!

Half of the things on Go fund me are just people chancing their luck.

That's pretty much what it's there for.

Their dream is to get married... "Getting married" costs very, very little.
What they really want is the dress, the reception for 600, the mega bucks honeymoon, all on someone else's tab.
If all they really wanted was to be married, they could nip down to the register office in their lunch hours, the pair of grasping gobshites.

Let's me straight. Why would anybody want to help a random couple to get married. No one gives a shit how much in love they are or whether they can afford it or not, and Why should they.
It'd obviously be very different if one of them were dying.

I'm really suspicious of most of the stuff that's on go fund me. I can't remember donating to anything that wasn't a recognised charity. A wedding wouldn't cut it for me.

Be straight not me straight

Seen people doing it for holidays, garden renovations, and for rebuying stuff because they didn't have house insurance, people really have no shame.

The point is all the time gullible people donate to these ridiculous causes then greedy people will continue to try it on .

Well it's easy enough to not donate isn't it?

I wouldn't do it myself because it's ridiculous and cringy, but in all honesty I can't get het up over it.

You'd generally have to go looking for the begging pot to put money into it and I presume most people don't (I certainly don't browse gofundme and don't know anyone who does) so just look on in a slightly bemused judge fashion tbh.

I think if they are honest about it, there's absolutely no harm in asking. Their choice. If people want to give to some random, why not. It's not being gullible to give to someone if you know what it's for.

I wouldn't ask or give, but seriously, why not. As long as they don't make up a sob story, if someone wants to ask for a pony, a wedding, a hot tub or a year of hairdresser appointments, they can always ask.

I will never donate to a stranger again after 'Dax's tale of New York'.

That was pretty much a pure scam. They needed donations to cover medical bills for their prem baby...only it turns out insurance paid in full so they just kept all the money!!

So don't donate

www.collegehumor.com/post/7036446/11-of-the-worst-gofundmes-youll-love-to-hate

Have a look at these...there are people with overdrafts, people who want to set up as professional youtubers and people who want a car.

that 'Dax's tale of New York' thing was AWFUL!

nearly £12k on the go fund me, and more on Facebook etc to her paypal account and ... Upon our safe return to the UK we will be making a personal donation to the foundation and will carry on supporting their cause in the future. .... yeah right, they said they gave some money, but crucially, not how much

A new vagina 😂😂🙈🙈

Donut they were greedy grabby cunts that lot werent they. I sometimes wonder what happened to them and whether they regret what they did.

floggingmolly the pair of grasping gobshites, best description ever

If I ask you all to fund a pair of diamond Tiffany earrings that I have been dreaming about since I was a child (!) it's not a scam, is it. You are free to give me money or just ignore me.

Pretty please, they are so pretty

feel free to PM me for details of my gofunding page

YABU cod. If it was a pair of enormous solitaire earrings from Tiffanny, that would be perfectly reasonable, and I might consider donating.

oh damn!

Hold on, I change the link

We had something similar local to me two years ago.
A young mum has this rare medical condition, so her friends set up go fund me for specialist treatment in germany. Everyone donated, they even had people collecting tins in our town. Then it all went quiet.
The doctor supposedly treating her who was expecting payment and a patient, emailed one of her friends asking why his patient hadnt arrived for treatment and querying payment as he hadnt recieved it.

Cue fraud investigation, claims of the ill lady had spent £15000 on her house to help her feel better (despite the NHS providing equipment) and denials left right and centre. She allegedly donated the money to a charity but no proof of it was ever found.
She took money off people who could barely afford to give it, good kind people who wanted to help.
I havent helped good causes since. I ask for registered charity number now and only give to genuine charities.
Grasping selfish cow. She had to move but folk still look at her sideways.

Dax's parents were asked on This Morning what they wanted to say to all the donators and they had nothing to say. It was awful.

What @PurpleDaisies said.

Electronic begging bowls, but with a veneer of respectability from being on an "official site".

Evilstepmum01 you live near me.

It was awful.

Grasping selfish cow. She had to move but folk still look at her sideways.

But that's an alleged fraud, isn't it? Unless she was charged with actual fraud.

The OP is whining about a couple she knows who've asked for money for a fancy wedding. I wouldn't give it unless I really liked them, but it's not dishonest or 'taking the piss', it's a request that you are free to ignore.

Do Private Eye still do the Eye Need or Eye Want column? Some of the ads were funny and I suppose some people gave because they made them laugh. It's the same thing on a smaller scale

Our local rag always does an annual "Win a Wedding Competition". Readers vote on which lucky couple deserves a £10,000 wedding. They print a supplement with a photo of the chosen couples - usually around 50 - with a couple of paragraphs about them and why they themselves think they deserve to win.

There are always some couples who have been together over a dozen years, got three kids, and would love to win the wedding because "they've never been able to afford to get married and it would means so much to the children if mummy and daddy were married". Fuck off. If you can afford three kids you can bloody afford to get married and your kids couldn't give a shit as long as they are happy whether you're married or not.