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> Suffolk Town Declares Crackdown on Chuggers..so Why not in West Berkshire?, This is what we need to do
Blake
post Apr 11 2012, 09:39 AM
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I heard about this on the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2 yesterday...what welcome news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01fc...ine_10_04_2012/

In the last ten years, the towns of West Berkshire have been plagued with the menace that is chugging and churgling. I think anyone must be mad to hand their bank details to a stranger in the street, but my main complaint is the sheer aggression with which these bright-bibbed nightmares use to target innocent people as they go about their business.

My particular issue is with the churglers who knock at your door. Chuggers can be avoided if you keep a close watch on them but its much harder to give churglers the slip.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthne...r-chuggers.html

It is high time the pests that are chuggers are driven off our streets permanently and allow us to choose who to donate to in privacy.

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John C
post Apr 11 2012, 10:30 AM
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Anybody that comes to my front door gets the same response, not interested and door shut.
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post Apr 11 2012, 11:31 AM
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I get pestered by all sorts of people in Northbrook Street. Yesterday it was a lady with a board on a pole.
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post Apr 11 2012, 12:27 PM
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"A broad on a Pole"? At least it keeps Estonians off the streets. (That is a totally rubbish comment.ce. grow up).

I was interested to read the subject of the OP and to note that Islington has beeen having a crackdown.
Aldburgh and Newbury are smallish by comparison. I live moments away from "Trendy" Upper Street.
It wasn't always that way. I don't venture out after dark these days. Too scared of the bouncers in the doorways.

One of the companies that recruit Chuggers is based in Clerkenwell(also trendy).
So, over a 2 mile stretch of wide pavements there can be as many as 5 different groups wanting you to be friends
with an African Elephant, a child in Liverpool, a poet in jail in Burma, it has become silly.
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post Apr 11 2012, 07:00 PM
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QUOTE (Blake @ Apr 11 2012, 10:39 AM) *
I heard about this on the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2 yesterday...what welcome news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01fc...ine_10_04_2012/

In the last ten years, the towns of West Berkshire have been plagued with the menace that is chugging and churgling. I think anyone must be mad to hand their bank details to a stranger in the street, but my main complaint is the sheer aggression with which these bright-bibbed nightmares use to target innocent people as they go about their business.

My particular issue is with the churglers who knock at your door. Chuggers can be avoided if you keep a close watch on them but its much harder to give churglers the slip.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthne...r-chuggers.html

It is high time the pests that are chuggers are driven off our streets permanently and allow us to choose who to donate to in privacy.



You'll find a polite 'no thanks' works wonders.
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post Apr 11 2012, 07:46 PM
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I can cope with escaping their clutches, but I am irritated by the commission they earn per signature - it was equivalent to the first 12 months 'donation'.

Anyone minded to donate should enquire the address of the charity (not the chugger agency) and send the funds direct.
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post Apr 11 2012, 10:07 PM
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I actually prefer if they get commission. At least then you can be sure they are doing their absolute best to get more doners, rather than just taking the money for nothing
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post Apr 12 2012, 05:17 AM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Apr 11 2012, 11:07 PM) *
I actually prefer if they get commission. At least then you can be sure they are doing their absolute best to get more doners, rather than just taking the money for nothing


I don't think anyone is interested in what they eat, let alone how much.

My serious point is that (as the Direct Debit is often cancelled) the charity gets nothing, or at very least a very small proportion of the donors payments.
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post Apr 12 2012, 03:58 PM
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Apr 12 2012, 06:17 AM) *
My serious point is that (as the Direct Debit is often cancelled) the charity gets nothing, or at very least a very small proportion of the donors payments.

I think the direct debit has to be in place for quite some time for the charity to recover what thay have to pay to the firm that employs the chuggers.

Puts me in mind of the "charity clothing bags", where x% of post tax profits go to the charity.

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post Apr 12 2012, 04:21 PM
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QUOTE (Vodabury @ Apr 12 2012, 04:58 PM) *
I think the direct debit has to be in place for quite some time for the charity to recover what thay have to pay to the firm that employs the chuggers.

Puts me in mind of the "charity clothing bags", where x% of post tax profits go to the charity.

What would you rather happen to clothes people no longer want?
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post Apr 12 2012, 05:00 PM
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QUOTE (dannyboy @ Apr 12 2012, 05:21 PM) *
What would you rather happen to clothes people no longer want?


Them given direct to a charity, so more of what is donated reaches the needy.
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post Apr 12 2012, 06:53 PM
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I personally like the Clothing Warehouse idea - everybody can benefit from cheap clothes, they don't discriminate.
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