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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I was sitting in the car with my GF talking at the gym (a large chain gym). There was a box in the parking lot to donate clothes. A box van pulled up to empty it as we were sitting there and she commented that she knew a guy that was very well off doing that.
I was a little confused and asked "doing what". As she starts to talk, the guys open up the van and start tossing clothes and bags of clothes in and a 20' van is full almost to the roof by 9:30am. I always assumed they were non profit donations.. church's, Goodwill etc.
These particular boxes from the same guy were all over the place. There is one in front of a business i own. The boxes say nothing on them other than buzz words "recycle", "donate" etc. I had always assumed they were charities.
In the case of these specific ones, the guy who was doing it was Pakistani. He sends all the clothes to some small town in Pakistan, they are cleaned, sorted, tagged etc and then shipped all over the region and the world to be sold.
Now, when i see these boxes I always look at them. There are tons of people doing the same thing. The boxes have a lot of great buzz words plastered all over them but have nothing to do with charity.
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It kind of reminds me of a guy I ran into when I was about 18 or 19 years old. I'm not sure if they even still have these, but there used to be non-profit and fundraising groups that would go to businesses and set up little candy boxes and take "donations." they had candy bars, chips, cookies and assorted snacks. They "recommended" that you donate $1 per item and they had a little slot in the box for you to put your money in. They would leave these at businesses that would display them and then come back periodically and check on it to collect money, refill it etc.
I was working at Radio Shack and a guy brought one in and asked if he could put it in the store. I told him I didn't know, I needed to talk to the manager. He left the box with me. I put it in the back room. The next day when the manager was in I asked him if he wanted to display it. We looked over it and saw that it had nothing on it that was affiliated with any kid of charity or non-profit fundraising. It had some buzzwords on it, but it was just a guy putting out boxes of his own and getting paid.
The manager decided not to display it and then being the dick he was he took everything out of it and took it home and put like $2 as his "donation."
Even with a loss like that I bet the guy made pretty good money if he had a lot of boxes out.
When I was in high school it was a closed campus so you couldn't leave for lunch and there was no soda to drink so I used buy soda at the store and sell them for three times what I paid. I sold at least a case a day and made about $10 profit a day. After a few months the school shut me down because I got too popular and was showing up at school everyday with 3-4 cases of soda
The bastards then started selling themselves. I actually went to the principle and told him that I deserved a commission for giving them the idea and he kicked me out of his office!