Grabby Justgiving pages.

[MrsMingech]

I've never experienced this before but it dawned on me that it must happen quite a bit.

Someone local to me ran out of money when building her extension and has put up a Justgiving page to raise the money to finish it.

It's raised about £30 the last time I checked and not budging.

Anyone else experienced CF JG pages?

I hate the ones that are basically charity tourism. Help little Jonny raise £5k to go on a trip to far flung destination to build a school. Would much rather give the work to local people with actual skills and not fund a trip for someone useless.

@Calandor

Yep an old school friend raising money to take her girlfriend to Ireland as she'd never left the country before...

Why is this lol?

When just giving started, someone I was FB friends with from a different parenting forum set up one to help fund a course to become a pole dancing instructor. I could understand this I suppose but the very same evening she also posted that she’d booked a weekend in London for her and her daughter to see a musical. You could probably pay for a pole dancing instructors course for the cost of that weekend! I just deleted her from FB.

My ex (dc’s dad) died unexpectedly recently, I had to pay for the funeral which wiped out all my savings and has left me broken financially and mentally. A few people suggested setting up just giving, I declined, I would be mortified.

Someone i follow on Twitter set up a funeral one for a relative so his mum didn't have to pay think that was aiming for about £10k.
I wouldn't mind but the guy himself regularly posts about his lovely holidays, home, car etc.
When my brother died without a pot to piss in my siblings went 3rds on the cost. We're not rich at all but I wouldn't dream of asking others to fund it

More fool the idiots that donate really. They are cheeky fuckers, but they rely on morons and there's plenty of them in the world.

One in our local town for a young man that died due to drugs, heartfelt appeal saying what a wonderful young man he had been, such a loving Son and all round good guy. He was the bain of everyone's life, he robbed, battered his Mum so badly she was in hospital for weeks, banned from every shop and avoided by everyone. Think £20 was raised.

The no contents insurance ones really bug me. You can get it for £10 a month or less.

So what happens to the money if they don't reach their targets? Do they still get it?

@Useranon1 because why would people donate towards taking someone's partner on a holiday for no reason?? The rest of us pay for our holidays. They both had full time jobs!

@Whawasthat

My ex (dc’s dad) died unexpectedly recently, I had to pay for the funeral which wiped out all my savings and has left me broken financially and mentally. A few people suggested setting up just giving, I declined, I would be mortified.

Why did you have to pay? He was your ex.

@PartyPlan - yes! What the developing world does not need is a load of over-privileged, unskilled teenagers building a toilet block or wherever. The money to pay their own skilled workforce yes! Loads of articles around this. Same with the big charities fund raising treks in the developing world which do nothing for the people living there. However raise enough money through fundraising for a western based charity and you get your trip of a lifetime.

A woman I know of online set one up for herself when she got pregnant. The complete brass necker made a very comprehensive breakdown of costs, with not an ounce of humility. She was looking for travel expenses (fair enough sort of) to her antenatal appointments, lunch out after her appointment (she estimated £15 a go) and because she had gestational diabetes she needed extra money above and beyond her pre pregnancy shopping list. She also either wanted money for maternity clothes, or to make things easier she set up an online wishlist where you could just buy individual items that she had chosen for her. To top it off she kept posting tattoos that she had designed that she was going to get once the baby was born. No idea how she could afford those and not the bus fare to the hospital

@LowlandLucky before these collections went online there would be ones in local shops. When I was a kid there was one for a lad who broke his leg in a car accident, his mum worked in the shop where said collection was. Except he crashed the stolen car he was joyriding in, taking out multiple cars in the process. This was 3am so the whole street was awake/disrupted. I think he missed a gas pipe or something by inches which would have been disastrous. To ask the same neighbors to donate to the little toe rag criminal was astounding. This was 30 odd years ago, people where just as grabby back then.

The travelling ones are the worst. "Help me travel the world!" Er no?

I suppose it saves the in-person pestering to "sponsor" someone ... or do they still do that as well?

Whawasthat
My ex (dc’s dad) died unexpectedly recently, I had to pay for the funeral which wiped out all my savings and has left me broken financially and mentally. A few people suggested setting up just giving, I declined, I would be mortified.
Why did you have to pay? He was your ex.

Because he had no family who would, we had remained friends, knew each other 20 years and for the sake of our children who are devastated, I couldn’t not.

Years ago the company I worked for used to regularly receive letters requesting sponsorship for teenagers to go round the world/climb Everest/build a school in an African country, seems they've just moved on to social media. The letters were always filed in the bin.

Colleague of mine set one up to raise money for the deposit to buy the house she was renting. She got the money too, I have no idea why anyone donated. She’s in full time work, perfectly fit and able etc.

A girl localish to me was sadly murdered and a go fund me was set up for her. Fair enough. But then her mother would literally set a new one up every month, holiday to new york, new car, moving in with new boyfriend, Christmas presents and she always uses the fact her daughter was murdered to pull at the heart strings. The original go fund me raised nearly 100k and people started asking where the money actually went.

I hate the pet ones too. There was one last year where someone had a 10 year old cat, who had had TEN THOUSAND POUNDS worth of treatment in the past 6 years. For all sorts of health issues and conditions. Procedure after procedure and procedure.

For the love of holy fucking hell. Know when to stop! This poor wee kitty was subjected to being dragged to the vets, back and forth, from the age of 4 to the age of 10, before the poor thing died in his sleep.

After £8,000 worth of ops and procedures (when he was 9,) they were still begging for more money for the next op. I think they only paid for the first £1000 worth of treatment.

FUXAKE

@MrsMingech YANBU.

I knew someone who started one as their child needed a wheelchair

(she was about 3/4 at the time)

A lot was played on her name being the same as a Disney princess

(think ‘x is named after x princess and she really is a princess but unlike the real princess x can’t do xyz’)

Thing was,this kid didn’t need a wheelchair at all-she was fit and healthy-the parents on the other hand really played on the disabled card

They raised a full ten pounds out of a target of £4K and a few months later the dad admitted they’d done it so they could go on a holiday at everyone else’s expense-leaving her at home with her grandma who social services had said the young one was never to be left with!

As far as I know she’s a happy and healthy 8 year old now but the parents are still playing the ‘she’s disabled’ card and people believe them!

I have a relative who is a very keen runner and made it a lifetime goal to run every international marathon. He cleverly got around it by doing it for charity. So Action Cancer or whatever would say you have to raise at least £3k to enter (this included flights and accommodation) so he'd set up pub quizzes, bag packing, car boot sales etc 'for cancer' and everyone thinks he has a heart of gold. He's gone all around the world free of charge due to the kindness of others, who think they are raising large amounts for charity. Once the expenses are paid the charity would be lucky to get a quarter of the amount raised.

A woman local to me set one up when she discovered her rental property needed “unexpected repairs”. (She owned another home which she lived in).

She posted the link on a community page and got slaughtered. Especially after someone asked why she didn’t remortgage her current home to pay for repairs and she said it was because interest rates were too high!!

I have seen some shockers.
I hit a rough patch a few years ago and my car broke down and was going to start one as I needed to car to get to work, but was so embarrassed even if I was only asking for £500to get an old banger I changed my mind.

Ha ha the wedding ones always get me. I’ll be sharing the company one in the next few weeks but that’s raising money for a mental health charity and we’re doing the kilt walk in return so it’s an old skool sponsored walk I suppose