komen for the cure ceo

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Originally Posted by Danzig

i read a few months back that many 'charities' hire telemarketers to do their fundraising, and the telemarketers get 50% of the take.
i know many years ago, i sent a donation to a charity that my mother had always supported. i got inundated with mailers after that, asking for more money. i'm sure the bulk of my donation went towards getting me pestered for more.

Not to mention that charities make a lot of money selling their mailing lists to other charities, which is why you get inundated with requests from other charities.

Mailing lists are worth a lot. Ron Paul recently tried to get supporters who were running ronpaul.com to give him the domain name. They offered him ronpaul.org, I believe, but said they should be paid $250,000 for .com, as it came with a mailing list of 170,000 that they had compiled over the years. He didn't want to pay, and complained to the United Nations, which told him to get the f*ck out.

I would have thought Ron Paul, of all people, would have respected the rules of the free market. But I guess the only part he really wanted was the "free" part.

So yeah, mailing lists. Worth a lot.

On the bright side, I went years without having to print my own return address labels, thanks to unsolicited requests from charities.