Raffle tickets for school via FB when ur next door

[Rob Base 2.0]

Is this a new normal?

Finally moved back into a house we own that we had rented. After many military moves ready to put roots down. Get along well with neighbors (lots still here from when we lived here last time ). I fully expect to get hit up for GS cookies, fund raisers, etc and will contribute within reason.

What I don't get is kid next door has school raffle ticket thingee they r selling. I ain't heard peep about it.

Now mom puts it on FB- "please support (daughter name) it's last week of raffle sale, yadda yadda"......

Sorry .....bring ur ass over here and ring my bell or ask me when u see me outside, and ur daughter should ask me not u...,,

Or am I mean?

[Deleted]

Mar 27, 2017 11:26:36 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

Is this a new normal?

Finally moved back into a house we own that we had rented. After many military moves ready to put roots down. Get along well with neighbors (lots still here from when we lived here last time ). I fully expect to get hit up for GS cookies, fund raisers, etc and will contribute within reason.

What I don't get is kid next door has school raffle ticket thingee they r selling. I ain't heard peep about it.

Now mom puts it on FB- "please support (daughter name) it's last week of raffle sale, yadda yadda"......

Sorry .....bring ur ass over here and ring my bell or ask me when u see me outside, and ur daughter should ask me not u...,,

Or am I mean?

I actually prefer the FB thing.  I have a choice to respond or not.

It's harder with Cutie Pie and her mom standing on my doorstep.  They take the refusal so much more personally.

[Deleted]

Mar 27, 2017 13:24:40 GMT -5 @bamafan1954 said:

Mar 27, 2017 11:26:36 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

Is this a new normal?

Finally moved back into a house we own that we had rented. After many military moves ready to put roots down. Get along well with neighbors (lots still here from when we lived here last time ). I fully expect to get hit up for GS cookies, fund raisers, etc and will contribute within reason.

What I don't get is kid next door has school raffle ticket thingee they r selling. I ain't heard peep about it.

Now mom puts it on FB- "please support (daughter name) it's last week of raffle sale, yadda yadda"......

Sorry .....bring ur ass over here and ring my bell or ask me when u see me outside, and ur daughter should ask me not u...,,

Or am I mean?

I actually prefer the FB thing.  I have a choice to respond or not.

It's harder with Cutie Pie and her mom standing on my doorstep.  They take the refusal so much more personally.

I find pretending i can't control the German Sheppard that is actually very well trained sends door knockers on their way. 

[hoops902]

Mar 27, 2017 13:24:40 GMT -5 @bamafan1954 said:

Mar 27, 2017 11:26:36 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

Is this a new normal?

Finally moved back into a house we own that we had rented. After many military moves ready to put roots down. Get along well with neighbors (lots still here from when we lived here last time ). I fully expect to get hit up for GS cookies, fund raisers, etc and will contribute within reason.

What I don't get is kid next door has school raffle ticket thingee they r selling. I ain't heard peep about it.

Now mom puts it on FB- "please support (daughter name) it's last week of raffle sale, yadda yadda"......

Sorry .....bring ur ass over here and ring my bell or ask me when u see me outside, and ur daughter should ask me not u...,,

Or am I mean?

I actually prefer the FB thing.  I have a choice to respond or not.

It's harder with Cutie Pie and her mom standing on my doorstep.  They take the refusal so much more personally.

Agreed.  I'm fine with passive shakedowns that I can ignore.  I'm a lot more annoyed by door to door direct shakedowns. 

[swamp]

we can't let our precious snowflakes ask anyone to buy anything, we now have to do everything for them.

I'm not sure when that happened, but I'm not happy about it.

[Regis]

Many schools are discouraging the practice of doing door-to-door sales for safety reasons.

[Green Eyed Lady]

I get hit up at work all the time from every co-worker who has a child.  Cookies, poinsettias, value books from places I don't patronize, raffle tickets...everything a person can think of to sell, these kids sell it. Or, I should say, their parents sell it. It got so bad, a new office policy had to be developed.  People may bring in their sell sheets, but they are to be put on the table in our common room where people can sign up or not. No more going from office to office.

As for the Facebook thing, I think I'd prefer that to the door-to-door selling but I'd rather it at least look like the kid wrote the posting. I'm concerned about these little kids running from door to door when they don't know the people they are approaching.  Since I don't have Facebook, I have no answer to your problem.

[alabamagal]

Well I'd rather ignore the Facebook request than have someone knocking at my door.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I HATE hocking that crap, especially since I found out that the school only gets 25 cents of every dollar.   The other 75 cents goes to the company that makes the crap.

Just up your fees, I would happily pay more upfront in fees than feel pressured to sell junk nobody wants.

What they do is they have a big assembly about it in school and the company trots out the big prizes that you can win like a PS4.  They don't tell the kids there is no humanly way possible to sell that much crap, especially in a week.

So here comes your kid all excited about winning a PS4 and then you get to be the ahole that explains to them it doesn't work that way.  

[Rob Base 2.0]

But I really wouldn't mind giving and honestly I'm disappointed I wasn't asked sooner, cause we were pretty close last time I lived here

I know we will see them a lot in the summer

[Deleted]

Mar 27, 2017 15:40:14 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

But I really wouldn't mind giving and honestly I'm disappointed I wasn't asked sooner, cause we were pretty close last time I lived here

I know we will see them a lot in the summer

Then buy already.  Post to bring Cutie Pie over and you will purchase.

They won't think you are a pervert.  You said "bring" and not "send."

[973beachbum]

Mar 27, 2017 14:19:08 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

I HATE hocking that crap, especially since I found out that the school only gets 25 cents of every dollar.   The other 75 cents goes to the company that makes the crap.

Just up your fees, I would happily pay more upfront in fees than feel pressured to sell junk nobody wants.

What they do is they have a big assembly about it in school and the company trots out the big prizes that you can win like a PS4.  They don't tell the kids there is no humanly way possible to sell that much crap, especially in a week.

So here comes your kid all excited about winning a PS4 and then you get to be the ahole that explains to them it doesn't work that way.  

I refuse to sell any of it.  My kids knew it from a pretty young age too.  They would tell the teacher they weren't bringing that packet of junk to sell home because I would just get mad.

And I would support the PTA.  I would normally just write a check to the PTA for $20 and say it's a donation.  All they needed to do is ask but don't send home all those glossy magazines filled with massively over priced junk for me to try and force on people!

[trippypea]

My daughter is in the high school marching band, and they do fundraisers to raise money for trips. The school doesn't keep any of the money; each kid has a trip account and the profit earned goes into it. Depending on the fundraiser, it seems to be between 30-40% of sales that goes to the kid. This is her first year, and she has about $250 in her account now. We don't have a lot of people to sell too though, and I refuse to sell at work or else you have to buy from everyone else too, which defeats the purpose...

[zibazinski]

Our PTA did that one year. Asked every parent for $20 with the promise of no junk being sent home. You could still "adopt" a class for extras. We used to buy an extra carton of copy paper when we bought office supplies. Then the word came down from admin that the purveyors of this crap to sell were furious because our school wasn't going to participate. So we were forced to send home junk. Couldn't even send a note along explaining that we were forced to do this. Parents were furious and rightfully so.

[Deleted]

I don't sell anything for the school.  I just give a donation at Christmas and sponser another kid for the school supplies/snack fee in the Fall.  They don't do the junk sales much there though...I think just once in the Fall.  They have other fundraisers like a 5K/10K and fish frys and coffee house on Friday mornings.  My kids love the coffee house.  The older students run it and they have the gym set up like a coffee house.  You can order coffee or hot chocolate and they sell pastries.   

We do quite a bit for the Scouts because the kids directly benefit.  Popcorn is a huge ripoff that I hate to sell, but my Ex is a big salesman type and moves a lot of it.  I stick with just the close family that want to do it for that.  Other than that it's wreathes and spring plants which we are selling now.  Those are a decent deal.  The plants are gorgeous hanging plants for $25 and DS gets $10 in his account each.  Last year he sold 75 of them, so that helped us out a lot. 

[Rob Base 2.0]

Mar 27, 2017 17:23:10 GMT -5 @bamafan1954 said:

Mar 27, 2017 15:40:14 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

But I really wouldn't mind giving and honestly I'm disappointed I wasn't asked sooner, cause we were pretty close last time I lived here

I know we will see them a lot in the summer

Then buy already.  Post to bring Cutie Pie over and you will purchase.

They won't think you are a pervert.  You said "bring" and not "send."

It was ok that I asked that she wear her soccer uniform too, right? The raffle ticket is for her school soccer team fundraiser ......

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Then the word came down from admin that the purveyors of this crap to sell were furious because our school wasn't going to participate

Of course they were, they are the ones making the real money.   I had the school speechless when I pointed out that essentially you are making us be sales men to line these company's pockets.

"Oh but we get 25 cents of every dollar!"    Yeah but that means they are getting the other 75 cents.

I'd rather put pop machines back in school for that piddly a kickback.  At least Coke and Pepsi don't make me sell their products.

[Deleted]

My kids went to a private school that had mandatory fundraising.  One year they sold Christmas trees . . . ugly, scrawny Christmas trees that you couldn't give away.  Yet you had to sit in the cold and wait.

They finally went with a choice.  You could sell or pay a monthly "donation."  We went with the donation.  That didn't completely eliminate it because some of the clubs still sold doughnuts, etc.  But participation wasn't mandatory.

I now teach in a public school, and the fundraising is non-stop.  The #1 target seems to be the teachers, too.  A lot of it is charitable, but I have limits there, too.  

[zibazinski]

Yes, then you get hit up for the Giving Tree or as we began to call it the Gimme Tree. It was a great idea that went the wrong direction.

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Mar 27, 2017 15:40:14 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

But I really wouldn't mind giving and honestly I'm disappointed I wasn't asked sooner, cause we were pretty close last time I lived here

I know we will see them a lot in the summer

How about reply with "send her over, I'll take a few"

[beergut]

Mar 29, 2017 20:29:59 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Yes, then you get hit up for the Giving Tree or as we began to call it the Gimme Tree. It was a great idea that went the wrong direction.

 I've heard of a lot of people who have stopped doing those 'angel' tree toy giveaways because kids were asking for things like PS4s, things some parents couldn't even afford to give their own kids. 

[beergut]

The booster clubs at the local high school do it right.

 The parents just ask, "How much do we need to 'donate' so the kids don't have to run around town selling crap that people don't want?"

 The parents are given an amount, it is divided among the number of parents of kids on the team, and it is basically just an extra fee. It is essentially a fee for your kid to play that sport. 

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Mar 27, 2017 11:26:36 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

Is this a new normal?

Finally moved back into a house we own that we had rented. After many military moves ready to put roots down. Get along well with neighbors (lots still here from when we lived here last time ). I fully expect to get hit up for GS cookies, fund raisers, etc and will contribute within reason.

What I don't get is kid next door has school raffle ticket thingee they r selling. I ain't heard peep about it.

Now mom puts it on FB- "please support (daughter name) it's last week of raffle sale, yadda yadda"......

Sorry .....bring ur ass over here and ring my bell or ask me when u see me outside, and ur daughter should ask me not u...,,

Or am I mean?

Really? Why would you ring my doorbell when you can post it on the neighborhood facebook page. I don't want people ringing my doorbell. Stay your ass home, and I'll say NO on facebook instead.

[Rob Base 2.0]

Apr 3, 2017 11:12:40 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Mar 27, 2017 11:26:36 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

Is this a new normal?

Finally moved back into a house we own that we had rented. After many military moves ready to put roots down. Get along well with neighbors (lots still here from when we lived here last time ). I fully expect to get hit up for GS cookies, fund raisers, etc and will contribute within reason.

What I don't get is kid next door has school raffle ticket thingee they r selling. I ain't heard peep about it.

Now mom puts it on FB- "please support (daughter name) it's last week of raffle sale, yadda yadda"......

Sorry .....bring ur ass over here and ring my bell or ask me when u see me outside, and ur daughter should ask me not u...,,

Or am I mean?

Really? Why would you ring my doorbell when you can post it on the neighborhood facebook page. I don't want people ringing my doorbell. Stay your ass home, and I'll say NO on facebook instead.

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So says mister free enterprise and capitalism

So u don't support ur CLOSE friends?

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Mar 27, 2017 13:45:46 GMT -5 @aj said:

Mar 27, 2017 13:24:40 GMT -5 @bamafan1954 said:

I actually prefer the FB thing.  I have a choice to respond or not.

It's harder with Cutie Pie and her mom standing on my doorstep.  They take the refusal so much more personally.

I find pretending i can't control the German Sheppard that is actually very well trained sends door knockers on their way. 

Yeah- we have a goofy looking Golden Doodle, but he's got a mean bark and I've taught him to speak. (No windows at my door)

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Apr 3, 2017 11:24:28 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

Apr 3, 2017 11:12:40 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Really? Why would you ring my doorbell when you can post it on the neighborhood facebook page. I don't want people ringing my doorbell. Stay your ass home, and I'll say NO on facebook instead.

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So says mister free enterprise and capitalism

So u don't support ur CLOSE friends?

Did you say "close friends"? I missed that.

[Deleted]

Somehow my ex gets away with taking our son around his company cube to cube.  It's a huge place, so I can't imagine it doesn't piss off the hundreds of other people that have scouts trying to sell stuff, but whatever.  They're going this afternoon and I wish them luck.  It's probably harder now with a 6 foot tall 220 pound scout than it was when he was 6 and cute. 

[Rob Base 2.0]

Apr 3, 2017 15:31:05 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Apr 3, 2017 11:24:28 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

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So says mister free enterprise and capitalism

So u don't support ur CLOSE friends?

Did you say "close friends"? I missed that.

Yep, we're reconnecting since I moved away but now moved back......back in the day when we lived here first time we lent each other our cars, had each others keys to our houses for emergencies, etc.

[Rob Base 2.0]

And even if not super close, within reason wouldn't you support your immediate next door neighbor? try to be good neighbors and all......

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Apr 3, 2017 16:03:02 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

Apr 3, 2017 15:31:05 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Did you say "close friends"? I missed that.

Yep, we're reconnecting since I moved away but now moved back......back in the day when we lived here first time we lent each other our cars, had each others keys to our houses for emergencies, etc.

Well, was it a PM on Facebook, or a post to the 'hood? If it was like a broadcast- that's fine. If it was just to you-- yeah, that's a little weird. Just come on over.