On 22 March 2016 at 11:51, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 21/03/16 19:39, Steinsplitter Wiki wrote:
(I must admit that i tested the job a year ago, the product was fine, the shipment fast. A bit expensive for my taste.)
Expensive? The profit adds funds the WMF, surely.
This is a logical fallacy that many charities fall into, and end up damaging their reputation in the tabloid press when it turns out that 80%+ of donations "disappear" in costs such as commercial fees, paying chugger agencies and bonuses and six-figure salaries for fundraising/marketing directors, rather than going to the intended beneficiary.
Here's a highly likely pragmatic scenario... if, say, a $20 "donation" to get a WMF merchandise tee-shirt disappeared as: * $ 12.00 basic transaction and product costs * $ 6.00 profit/fees to intermediary organizations * $ 1.80 WMF administration costs * 20 cents is the outcome "donation" to WMF causes (1%)
Then yes, the transaction adds funds to the WMF, but in a really crappy way where the system probably cost several times more in WMF staff time to set up than it will make over many years, comparatively huge profit margins are going to unnamed parties (at least unnamed for the purchaser or WMF volunteers), and in a non-transparent way too.
Fae