Subscriptions

[klondike]

Subscribe to this first 3 months usually half price or less. Subscribe to that first month free etc. etc. etc. I don't think I could go through a day without seeing such offers. Everybody wants you to subscribe. I subscribe to very little but there have to be people spending £100 or more a month on subscriptions. I'm sure it didn't used to be like this

[Dextrous63]

Did you never subscribe to those "make your own model car/train/boat" mags with a large piece on the intro copy, but getting increasingly small-but-essential bits by issue number 498? 😬😬

[Mups]

I subscribe to a couple of gardening magazines, but that's all.   
I had a very good Doggy one for years,  until they started messing about not sending it, so I cancelled that one and stopped the direct debit in the end.

[Scrumpy]

I don't subscribe to anything anymore... They get too greedy.. and ask for more..
 If I see a person with a collection tin and I want to donate.. then I will..
I  don't feel guilty walking by .. those days are long gone..
 Some charity shops are guilty of this too.. I have seen items (dearer) than the shop price..
When you consider everything is donated by the public and the (workers) do not get paid.. Yet those at the top make a fortune.. for themselves.. Scandalous..

[Mups]

I don't subscribe to anything anymore... They get too greedy.. and ask for more..
 If I see a person with a collection tin and I want to donate.. then I will..
I  don't feel guilty walking by .. those days are long gone..
 Some charity shops are guilty of this too.. I have seen items (dearer) than the shop price..
When you consider everything is donated by the public and the (workers) do not get paid.. Yet those at the top make a fortune.. for themselves.. Scandalous..

I agree with both the parts I have hi-lighted, Scrumps.
I'm afraid I walk past most people waving a collection tin at me now.

[Alex]

Does anyone pay £5.99 a month for ITV x without the adverts ?   I paid up mainly to watch Nashville and Corrie catch up.  This morning I decided to cancel and switch to Channel 5, I went on to ITV to cancel and they dropped the price to £2.99 a month, so being the sucker that I am, I carried on subscribing.

[Vlad]

I don't subscribe to anything anymore, I used to subscribe a days pay to the Regimental Charity which was a requirement on joining the regiment, RNLI ( oooh contentious there Vlad) up to about 2020. Medecins Sans Frontieres because I saw them in action once . Nice people.
I do dislike the chuggers in shopping centres etc, very aggressive young people asking for your bank details to support the charity that employs them 

[JBR]

Does anyone pay £5.99 a month for ITV x without the adverts ?  I paid up mainly to watch Nashville and Corrie catch up.  This morning I decided to cancel and switch to Channel 5, I went on to ITV to cancel and they dropped the price to £2.99 a month, so being the sucker that I am, I carried on subscribing.

No.  There is little to watch on ITV now in our opinions.  We watch the old Coronation Street every day it is on, but I'm damned if I will pay to avoid the adverts, especially as they are only on for 2 or 3 minutes each time, at least in this programme.

[Raven]

No subscriptions here.

[klondike]

to support the charity that employs them

Chuggers don't work for the charities. They work for companies who provide the charities new subscribers I don't know the details but I believe the charities don't see much of  your sub for quite a while as the company obviously takes a fee and the front line chuggers are probably on commission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_fundraising

[Vlad]

Chuggers don't work for the charities. They work for companies who provide the charities new subscribers I don't know the details but I believe the charities don't see much of  your sub for quite a while as the company obviously takes a fee and the front line chuggers are probably on commission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_fundraising

Ahh, didnt know that...cheers!

[Mups]

No.  There is little to watch on ITV now in our opinions.  We watch the old Coronation Street every day it is on, but I'm damned if I will pay to avoid the adverts, especially as they are only on for 2 or 3 minutes each time, at least in this programme.

I wouldn't pay to avoid adverts either.  
They get on my wick,  but I just mute them.  

[JBR]

I wouldn't pay to avoid adverts either. 
They get on my wick,  but I just mute them. 

True.  I just turn down my hearing aids util they've finished!  It works perfectly.

[Alex]

I'm impatient ! 

[GrannyMac]

I don't subscribe to anything anymore... They get too greedy.. and ask for more..
 If I see a person with a collection tin and I want to donate.. then I will..
I  don't feel guilty walking by .. those days are long gone..
 Some charity shops are guilty of this too.. I have seen items (dearer) than the shop price..
When you consider everything is donated by the public and the (workers) do not get paid.. Yet those at the top make a fortune.. for themselves.. Scandalous..

I've been a volunteer for over 10 years in a charity shop.  We have a paid manager, assistant manager, and two part time staff.  Our shop is open seven days a week, and it's busy.  We take between £4k-£5k every week, sometimes more.  If we overpriced everything, it wouldn't sell, but mistakes do happen!  Things that don't sell after two or three weeks are usually half priced.  

Our managers work really hard, every bag of donations has to be carried upstairs, for sorting, and we can get hundreds in a week.  clothes get hung, steamed, and then taken back downstairs for display.  

Sadly a lot of stuff should have gone in the donor's bin, instead, it goes in ours.  And that costs, as businesses have to pay for refuse collections.  Old tatty clothing is fine, the rag man buys it, same with old and damaged books.   Chipped and cracked ceramics and glass? Not so much.

The chief executives of some of the bigger charities would be paid a lot more if they were running businesses of the same size in the private sector.   Our shops aren't run by happy amateur volunteers, they're one of the biggest retailers in the UK.