Comments on: Just Taking

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:03:39 +0000

You’d think they’d be obliged to state in a very up front way exactly where your donation went immediately before you hit the donate button. I agree that does such.

Don’t really know how to judge *too* much profit. There seems to me some benefit in aligning their incentives with the charities - what’s good for the charities is good for them - but perhaps they will start reducing their % as volume increase???

By: Jax

Jax — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:57:18 +0000

and there he was gone…

By: Jax

Jax — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:56:37 +0000

Tim missed out the fact that charities pay on a monthly basis as well:

“A monthly hosting fee: £15 a month + VAT rolling annual membership by direct debit (or you can choose our monthly option at £20 a month + VAT). Because we serve more than 1,200 UK charities, this represents a huge volume discount on the costs of setting up, hosting and running a secure donation and fundraising site yourself”

I don’t think it’s the making the profit bit that’s bothering him. It’s the amount of the profit - and the fact that it isn’t clearly stated on the donation pages how much (or little) of what you are donating is actually reaching the charity concerned.

But I daresay he’ll be back with his own opinion later.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:52:24 +0000

Well, all I can say is, I wish I’d thought of it.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:26:03 +0000

Don’t most companies who provide a service to charities make a profit? I can’t believe many services are provided just at cost - why should the model for banking services be different? If the charities don’t think it is cost-effective they can vote with their feet.

By: Clare

Clare — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:55:40 +0000

You’d think someone like me who questions everything would have known that I’m so flipping naive I assumed they were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts What a shame.

By: t-bird

t-bird — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:46:23 +0000

That sucks.