Annoying or not,the Historica Dominion is a real chartiy.I have donated a couple of times in the past because I like what they are doing.But yes,I also grow weary of telemarketers and people sociliting for donations.I give when I can.That's all.To that end,I bought an answering machine and calll display.I almost never answer if I don't know who is calling.Calls from the USA annoy me the most.I NEVER answer them.
I am receiving several calls a day from this number,however they leave no message and when I answer no one answers. I hang up because I am afraid I will be charged for some foreign phone call. I have put my name on the do not call list, but they still call. My huspand has a cell work phone that these people should not have the number for but they somehow do and continue to call him at work. How can we get these calls to stop? They call at all hours even when we have gone to bed as late as 11 pm.
What a joke this guy is. Listened to some of his ramblings, also claiming to be from the Historica Dominion Institute. Told him I hadn't heard about his organization and I'll check out his website. If he was genuine, this should have been enough for him. Instead, he kept pushing for money, asking if I could at least afford a $20 donation. I said I'd need to look at the website and think about it at which point he immediately hung up. No "goodbye" or "thank you for your time" or anything like that. Again, if he was genuine, he would accepted my response and said something reasonable like "please take a look at the site and if it's something you want to support we'd really appreciate it, you'll find a link to donate should you choose to".
I looked up these folks in revenue canada and their disclourer statement is quirte interesting.
For last year this is what they reported
(a) Enter the gross revenue collected by the fundraisers on behalf of the charity. 5450 $ 1,699,826
(b) Enter the amounts paid to and/or retained by the fundraisers. 5460 $ 1,505,389
(c) Identify the method of payment to the fundraiser:
So they collect 1.7 million and pay their fundraiser 1.5 million --> so 200K goes to the charity