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mooewe
Citizen
Username: Mooewe
Post Number: 349
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 12:34 pm: | 
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A: When the Sierra Club and NJPIRG kids come knocking on your door. 
I've gotten a bit rude about them showing up at my door, and feel a little bad about it, but not terribly. Anyone else find this annoying? Can these door-to-door campaigns really generate anything worth what these kids go through? |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1026
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 12:37 pm: |
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What are those groups? |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14534
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 1:08 pm: |
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The Sierra Club is an environmentalist lobbying group.
NJPIRG is a non-partisan public interest research group. I think every state has PIRG's. They are staffed with lots of college students. I was involved briefly with NYPIRG when I was in college in NYC, though it was mostly to meet women. 
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Peter J. Watts
Citizen
Username: Peter_watts
Post Number: 32
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:08 pm: |
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Hippies. |
catmanjac
Citizen
Username: Catmanjac
Post Number: 238
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:15 pm: |
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I don't answer the door before looking out the window to see if it's somebody looking for donations or religious propaganda. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2356
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:16 pm: |
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I did it in Belmar for a summer. You wouldn’t believe how much money we could pull in. There was a strange salary thing where you got something like %30 of what you pulled in that day (It was a little more complex) but we would routinely pull in $500 – 1000 a day and then take our cut. Usually you looked for a tiny well maintained garden in the front yard that meant an older woman lived there; next thing you know she wrote you a check for $250. You avoided houses with lawn mowers out front (that meant the husband was home), and any houses with kids toys lying around. |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1705
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:17 pm: |
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Just tell them that you've been donating for 10 years, thank them for 'fighting the good fight', and tell them that you're busy changing a catheter tube for your father.
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catmanjac
Citizen
Username: Catmanjac
Post Number: 239
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:19 pm: |
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Another example of the fundraiser getting a large cut that people think goes to the charity... |
phyllis
Citizen
Username: Phyllis
Post Number: 528
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:20 pm: |
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I hate it, but then again, give these guys credit for doing something that might have more meaning than selling shoes (not that there's anything wrong with selling shoes!)
What I have started telling them - which is the actual truth, is that I make decisions about what groups or causes I support in advance, and don't just respond to people knocking on the door or calling. They seem to accept that answer.
What does annoy me is when people came to the door when it was darker earlier. Sorry, if I'm home wiht my kid or alone, without another adult (and maybe even with one) I'm not opening my door to a stranger! |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1029
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:29 pm: |
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These guys sound like they need to get a real job. |
catmanjac
Citizen
Username: Catmanjac
Post Number: 240
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:30 pm: |
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Try garlic or a silver crucifix. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14543
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 2:48 pm: |
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Jeez, you people are mean! It's a real job if you ask me, and a tough one, too. I'm glad people put efforts behind their idealism. It's the perfect age to do so. Some causes are worthy, and some are not. And you get to decide which are which.
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Zoesky1
Citizen
Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 1533
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 3:54 pm: |
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I was involved in NYPIRG too, eons ago in college (Syracuse U.), and I liked it. I always grin when those college kids show up. They are so young, idealistic, and clearly into it to walk around the neighborhood in 90-degree weather when they could be working at a mall. I usually give them $30 or so. It helps that I happen to agree with the politics for the most part, am a Sierra Club member, etc. But I think it's a great job! |
Matt Foley
Citizen
Username: Mattfoley
Post Number: 664
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 10:15 pm: |
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Brett, I too did the PIRG thing when I was 16. Nice to know the sales tactics were the same all over. |
Brett Weir
Citizen
Username: Brett_weir
Post Number: 1598
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 11:46 pm: |
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Wow, Brett, Belmar? That was a tough route. If a kid from NJPIRG ever came by our house, we'd have turned him upside down and shaken every last cent out of him for beer. I assume you avoided the rentals like the plague, except of course on your personal time... |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2365
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 1:51 pm: |
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Well the office was in Belmar, so we all met there in the morning and they would load up a van and take us out to where the suckers kind hearted folks lived |
Brett Weir
Citizen
Username: Brett_weir
Post Number: 1607
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 2:39 pm: |
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And where was the dropoff point- Bar A. or D'Jais? |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2367
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 2:56 pm: |
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well we had to count out spoils first, but Bar A was only a block away |
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