Do charity chuggers have to be so aggressive and sarcastic?

Had a guy come round the other night for St Johns, nice enough guy but hated the fact when I asked for more information about what the money would go to he whipped out the iPad and straight on to the DD form.

Told him to do one after that...
 
I remember my first experience with these clipboard vultures. I was walking along Moorgate (fresh in the UK, already taken someone's jerb) when one of them approached me. I stopped not knowing what he wanted and he did the whole "it's for charidee mate" thing, so I pulled a fiver out my wallet and offered it to him. He refused it and said he wanted my card details, so they can take a fiver every month. I just laughed at him rather awkwardly and walked off. I've never given to one of them and I refuse to out of principal.

A few months ago I was sitting at a coffee shop and they were hanging around there too, my wife had just been rejected a job and was not in the mood to deal with these guys so when he approached us (whilst we're sipping our coffee at Nero or Starbucks or whatever it was) she very promptly told him where to stick it. What amazed me the most is how he simply nabbed a passer by and laid out his whole trick right there next to us, except that this time they were using iPads to store people's details. Could probably feed a small village for a month for the price of one of those ipads.

I tend to get quite abrupt with them. I realise they're only doing their job but there's nothing more irritating when going about your day than some schmuck with a forced smile tries to stop you in your tracks to get you to hand over some wedge on a monthly basis.

See also those religious nuts who try and hand you their "repent or die in hell for all eternity" propaganda when you walk past.

Almost as bad as estate agents. Almost.
 
The Bloody fake leaflet trick...

What i do is grab it HARD and pull. They then get really upset. But unfortunately its not my fault because they handed it to me!

Stupid people.
 
xibinim said:
You should try working by Tottenham Court Road, it's a minefield of chuggers.
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I walk from Euston to the Embankment down Tottenham Court road most weekdays.

I blank herds of chuggers in the summer. My record is being asked for money 11 times on that walk last summer. It's what a 30 minute walk, around 2 miles.
 
Tuppy_Glossop said:
In my world holding on to a leaflet constitutes neither aggression nor sarcasm.
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O_o

That was with me but what I witnessed was purposely getting right into customers faces as they tried to leave to block their exit and force them to talk to them. Giving sarcastic remarks to customers that said they didn't have the time or the ones that tried their best to blank them.

So yes fairly aggressive and sarcastic considering you are forced into a confrontation with them as there is a tiny exit which they have blocked.

Let me guess you are one or you have worked as one before? ;)
 
JonJ678 said:
Doesn't happen at Waitrose.
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Doesn't happen with Ocado :o

Seriously though, if they're a nuisance just tell the store. They'll be removed pronto.

EDIT: I got hassled once by Sky salesmen, they had a stall in the local mall. He said "are you interested in getting Sky" and I said something along the lines of "I hate Rupert Murdoch and everything he stands for, there's absolutely no way in hell I would pay a single penny to that vile sub-human scumbag". I think he got the message.
 
Werewolf said:
My opinion on Chuggers is that I won't deal with them at all, and if one annoys me enough when they're on private property (especially something like a supermarket) I'm willing if needs be to complain to the owner of the property.

Oddly enough the likes of Tesco and Morrisons don't like it when people they're allowing on their property to sell something or collect donations (and a chugger is basically doing both), annoys or upsets their customers.

I dislike the idea of chuggers a lot, as I'll donate to charity when I can and to charities that I agree with. I don't like being pressured on the spot to sign up for anything, and really dislike it when a charity tries to guilt me into it.
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Well, that.

I donate to charities of my choosing, using a sum I determine, when I feel like it. I also have a substantial proportion of the residual of my estate going to specified charities in my will. But I'm not setting up a direct debit, either via chuggers or direct, and that's that. Nor will I donate cash at my door, or in the street, with the single exception of small-scale local charities I'm already aware of. There are also a few large charities I'm unwilling to support in any way at all. Any that I do donate to get checked out first.

I have no time for chuggers but I would make time to complain to store management if hassled by aggressive or overly persistent chuggers, and to the store's head office if the local manager did nothing. If nothing still changed, I'd change where I shopped.

I'm surprised at the Co-op though. Regardless of which Co-op, and it's not just one company by the way, I'm surprised they'd put up with customers being harassed even if, or even because, they are part if the labour movement themselves. Supporting charity is one thing, but harassing people is the antithesis of the movement's ethos.
 
Don't get many of them here in NZ. Nothing like when I was back in the UK.

Although two guys did come round last night but the gf didn't even give them a chance before barking at them to get off our property and something about trespassing. Heard them mumble an apology and left.

I was accosted by a middle age woman outside the gym collecting for kids cancer. I politely said no thanks and she pulled a trick by loudly saying, 'Can you confirm that you don't want to donate to sick kids' ... or something along those lines. I simply said, and as loud, 'You are correct, I don't'.
 
I had one couple years ago knock on the door trying to sell contents insurance asking if I had iPads etc :eek: after I'd told him I wasn't interested.. He asked to come in and use the loo...

Well dodgy, had his little hi vis vest and Id.

I always just ignore the chuggers when out and about.
 
Skunkworks said:
It get them in my apartment block going door to door. :/
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Blackout curtains / blinds ftw. As soon as I get in from work, I take my hearing aids out. ****** to door-to-door salesmen :-)

As for high street chuggers, the NSPCC are the worst. I had to report them as one of their girls wanted to walk me up to to my Santander branch to set up a direct debit. Aggressive was an understatement.
 
I find putting my palm towards them and making a disparaging face counters their 'smile-like-they-want-to-sleep-with-you' technique.
 
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