to think i have the right to say no to charities that come to my door?

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i am perfectly polite but they always act like i have just slapped their face which just pisses me off quite frankly.

God no, not at all.

I don't like anyone turning up at my front door trying to get me to part with cash to be quite honest. It's taking the piss.

YANBU at all!

Of course yanbu.

It's like those charity bags that get pushed through the door that always ends up getting used as bin liners.

do you mean chuggers? i was very rude to one a while back, i think i might of made her cry

YANBU I've had to get quite shouty at one bloke before he would leave I ment to write a letter to his boss but didnt get round to it.

YANBU - I once said no to someone collecting the Christian Aid envelope and she asked me why. She was very when I told her I had just been made redundant.

YANBU

Often door to door charity collections are middle men - only a small percentage goes to the charity.

i had an ms charity woman more or less tell me i was a liar when i explained i already had signed a direct debit thing.

the red cross give their chuggers excellent training which means i feel like i am part of a confidence trick.

glad i am nbu!

YANBU its your house you have a right to say no. I was very rude to someone from a Charity a while back , it was 8pm on an evening just as i was getting dd to bed, she was in the middle of a massive paddy and basically this guy got the worse part of me oh dear. Well he did call late in the evening so what do you expect when people are winding down and eating dinner/supper.

Don't answer the door to people you don't know. Then you don't have to deal with the situation.

Don't start me on thee people. I had some problems with one a few months ago, ended up complaining to the charity about them.

I dident, they knocked at 3pm i did not answer the door, than came back at 8pm, thought that it was my good friend that i was expecting and it was some guy form a charity.

YANBU. At all. I once was depsrate for work and got an interview for what I thought would be telesales - it turned out to be going door to door with a charity tabbard on, asking for dosh. The way it worked was that for every person that signed up, I would get an amount. The company defended this by saying that the charities did this because in the long run they got the money they needed.

Needless to say, I declined their offer, but it's made me mightily suspicious of anyone going door to door. If I'm going to sign up face to face now, I do it with the people on the high streets, as I can more readily check that they are legitimate volunteers/campaigners.

i had someone from a well known charity for the deaf. " do you know anyone who is deaf>" he started off by saying
" my daughter is partially deaf, but i don't want to waste your time..." it was a cold night and my tone was very pleasant"...i won't be giving any money , sorry"
" i didn't ask you for any money..." he said nastily " but if that's the kind of person you are.." and walked off

i felt really quite hurt actually.

I hate them coming to the door. They always say the same thing: 'It's ok, I'm not selling anything, so there's no need to let the dogs out'. No, you're not selling, but you still want my money.
The other week a guy from the RSPB came at 2pm. I opened the door to him told him I wasn't interested and he left. He came back at 7.30, THE SAME BLOKE, woke DS with his knocking. DH answered the door this time and was just starting to be polite, no knowing that I had already sent the bloke packing earlier. When I realised who it was at the door, I was less than polite.

Best to always say no at the door or if they grab you in the street. Maybe they will learn to stop doing it. You can still donate some other way, but I don't like pushy charities.

Here in uglymuglyland, DH and I take the view that it is our house and our phone. We pay for both, so we're entitled to say who we respond to, and who we don't. It's no different to someone who wants to peer through our windows or someone who wants to make offensive phone calls. Just say no.

When I'm here and my DH is out, I can see them through the voile curtains on the window in my den onto the driveway/front door. If someone comes to the door, I can usually tell that it's a cold-call sales person (or someone wanting to save my soul) - and I can tell that from their behaviour/body language, people like that don't realise how much they give away when they don't realise they're being observed. I don't bother answering the door, I just watch until they give up and go away, and then watch through the window overlooking the street and see them go to the next house (where the people living there are out at work/college, and anyway it's rented.)

The charity guilt trip never works on me or DH. We have already decided what charities we wish to support financially, so we don't need anybody else to give us "suggestions".