Would you trust a donation collector with card on phone as much as with cash?

2 pointsby chrisjjvor 2 Jahren6 comments

Assume you would donate £10 cash to a charity shop collector's tin labelled Help for the Homeless.

Now how likely if the collector was offering only a smartphone showing this screen https://givetap.co.uk/taptopay needing your payment card?

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vba616vor 2 Jahren

Presumably it was meant literally, but the term "charity shop collector" seems to have some other meanings as well which are interesting to me as a non-UKian speaker:

   - A provider of "a charity shop back-end as a service", which disposes of donations 
     received by charity shops.

     e.g. https://live.ctrgroup.co.uk/third-sector/textiles-collection/ 

   - A person who collects things purchased from charity shops.
     
     e.g. "Harding is an avid charity shop collector, especially of sad and neglected 
     ceramic animals".

chrisjjvor 2 Jahren

Sorry. By 'charity shop' I meant a retail outlet operated by a charity. By 'collector' here I mean someone who collects monetary donations in such a shop.

chrisjjvor 2 Jahren

PS Come to think of it, I have never seen a charity shop in any of the many countries I have visited outside UK. All the more remarkable given in the UK they are so frequent and often large.

vba616vor 2 Jahren

I assumed it's more or less what they call a "thrift store" in the US.

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JohnFenvor 2 Jahren

Not in a million years, no. Cash is king for this sort of thing.

My aversion comes from the risk of disclosure that I'm the sort of person who gives money to charity. I learned firsthand that getting on that sort of list is hell, and I won't take the chance again.

chrisjjvor 2 Jahren

Good point. Many are unaware of the ease of linking their card face info with contact details.

[deleted]vor 2 Jahren