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Thanks Sophia. I never expected everyone on the board to be in a position to donate money to this charity, as per my thread - just a 'head's up' that should they want to, the opportunity was almost over.
Ok - here is the challenge then to everyone who feels that my money could have gone to a more worthy charity ... how many here are going to commit to giving an extra £10 to a charity of their choice by Christmas?
Now that would make all this debate all the more worthwhile ...
They might have used some of their money for presents but the majority was on food. But if their savings have gone, they have lost their money for both.
Be flippant. Even if you dont approve of my donation to Farepak customers, all the other charities that are so worthwhile must be giggling themselves silly over that comment ... let's hope it's not your Mum desperate for help with breast cancer, for instance.
And a leg is better than nothing!
Sorry dude - that is a very worthwhile donation.
But then maybe I'm an oversensitive soul, too
I'm well aware of what Farepak was- it was a savings scheme, where they invest the money and make their money from the investments. They made some very poor investments, and went bust.
Most of the Farepak custom was not for food hampers, it was for High Street vouchers- vouchers which would be spent on gifts.
Now I sympathise with anyone who loses money as a result of a folded company, and I don't attack anyone who donated money to this fund, I just think that the whole enterprise is very misguided. Especially as the customers of many other companies who lost everything did not get the publicity and did not get demands for public money to be spent on them.
I don't condemn anyone for donating, but there are better things to give a tenner to. And it certainly isn't up to the Government to contribute tax funds to it.
I feel sorry for the people that lost out but there's no way I've ever donate to that cause .. I'm really not suprised in the least they've not managed to raise anything like £50 Million
I'd much rather give money to help people affected by droughts, wars, famine, cancer, etc (i.e. things totally out of their control) then to give back money to people who had what they lost in the first place in their own hands to begin with.
I think a lot of the people that used that scheme need more help in being taught how to manage their finances, if they cuoldn't have opened a bank account they could have just bougt premium bonds and cash them out later and even stood a chance of winning £1 million each month.
I think this is the UK's equivelent for 2006 of Hurricane Katrina, i.e. and event that has happened this year that has effected some of the poorest people in our country .. feel sorry for them but in the long term they might learn a good financial lesson forom what hapened and christmas is too commerical anyway, they say the average person or household is spending over £900 per year on xmas?
I fully respect that decision. The question now is, ARE you actively going to donate to one of your preferred charities for Christmas?
They really are stupid cunts for saving up for Christmas in a with-profits scheme, aren't they?
What "lesson" have they learned, except don't trust HBOS plc (who- correct me if I'm wrong- are a fucking bank)?
Dipshit.
I didn't mean to seem flippant, Kermit. I just felt (at the time) that presuming that it was X Boxes for everyone seemed a bit unfair when we don't really know what people would be using them for ... but you are probably right and your views are very valid.