Remember kids, they also get to use the money they guilted off of you to reduce their tax liability because they get credit for donating your money!

Those charities have huge overhead. Very little money goes to the actual cause.

My favorite one is when our utility company asks me to donate to help pay for people's utilities like they aren't raking in record amount of cash.

First, please don't link to Reddit...

Many Of The Largest Charities In America Are Giant Money Making Scams
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/many-of-the-largest-charities-in-america-are-giant-money-making-scams

Just FYI this is a sort of scam. The company donates the money on your behalf and they get the tax write-off for your donation while also appearing philanthropic for PR purposes. that's why they do it.> e fair, I bet these companies strike deals with the charitable organizations to in turn raise visibility of those charities among the company’s customers. Furthermore there is no contractual obligation they actually donate that money or how. They could just be lying to you.

I hate when they pull this shit at drive through fast food. “Would you like to round up to donate to our charity?”

Who knows what the person taking my order thinks about this charity, and what they might do to someone’s food who says no.

Edit: The fact that merely implying a fast food worker wouldn’t be a complete perfect human being gets so many downvotes says a whole lot about this community.

Shell's audacity too...

People that give money for those charities are giving those companies free tax write offs.

You donate $10 or whatever. The company can then claim that $10 as a write off via donation to that charity. Campaign as a whole (either regional or national) collects $1M USD. Corporate accountants write off donation. Tax liability reduced.

Just wait until you get a tip prompt on a self checkout kiosk...

Bad example, grocery stores usually have small margins and aren't making a lot of money off of you

And I will never ever give these fools my actual phone number for discounts. Just use any area code w/ 867-5309 to get around this.

PSA: most Americans can get up to $300 deducted from their annual taxes through donations.

It's still fine.

Some big international store in europe is asking to buy food from them for full price and donate it to food bank. Fuckin hilarious for making profit on charity.

I just say no

I hate when any company I'm buying something from does this.

If I choose to donate I will do it on my own terms thank you very much.

I hate these donate screens because I have no idea where the donation actually goes and i don't want to have to do a ton of research at the grocery checkout about whether its a good charity.

I don’t trust them to actually donate anyway. How would you ever find out? I suspect these are scams to hold the money and get interest off it even if they do ultimately donate it.

Bad example, grocery stores usually have small margins and aren't making a lot of money off of you

To be fair, I bet these companies strike deals with the charitable organizations to in turn raise visibility of those charities among the company's customers.

Then they will say it is more efficient to merge the donations with regular revenue and make bulk donations every quarter or something.

Those donations you make can help them deduct from taxes, right?