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tweedie

07-12-2010 10:57

Virgin Mobile Screwing Charities?

Whilst taking a leak the other day at the Odeon I noticed a sign for The British Forces Foundation where you basically send a text which costs Â£3 to donate.

It read

Quote:

Text Heroes to 70099 and buy one of our deserving heroes a welcome home drink. Text messages cost Â£3 plus one message at your standard network charge. The British Forces Foundation will receive a minimum of Â£2.67 (Â£2.25 from Virgin Mobile Users) from each message sent

Why are Virgin keeping more money than everyone else?

I know its a business and all that but taking money from a charity.

Anyone shed light into why?

BenMcr

07-12-2010 12:43

Re: Virgin Mobile Screwing Charities?

At a guess? Virgin Mobile are MVNO, so for anything like a text message have to pay T-Mobile (who's network they operate on) as well as cover their own costs

machloop

18-12-2010 15:19

Re: Virgin Mobile Screwing Charities?

Quote:

Originally Posted by tweedie (Post 35133856)

Whilst taking a leak the other day at the Odeon I noticed a sign for The British Forces Foundation where you basically send a text which costs Â£3 to donate.

It read

Text Heroes to 70099 and buy one of our deserving heroes a welcome home drink. Text messages cost Â£3 plus one message at your standard network charge. The British Forces Foundation will receive a minimum of Â£2.67 (Â£2.25 from Virgin Mobile Users) from each message sent

Why are Virgin keeping more money than everyone else?

I know its a business and all that but taking money from a charity.

Anyone shed light into why?

Ignoring the Virgin puzzle for a minute, when you donate your Â£3 somebody is creaming off at least 33p. Who and why - that's the question. Obviously this scam is run by an 'agent'.

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vanman

18-12-2010 21:12

Re: Virgin Mobile Screwing Charities?

Quote:

Originally Posted by machloop (Post 35139683)

Ignoring the Virgin puzzle for a minute, when you donate your Â£3 somebody is creaming off at least 33p. Who and why - that's the question. Obviously this scam is run by an 'agent'.

http://bff.org.uk/news/buy-our-heroes-a-drink/

Quote:

To buy a British serviceman or woman a drink text HEROES to 70099. Texts cost Â£3 plus your standard network rate. From most users BFF will receive over Â£2.90 from each text donation with a minimum of Â£2.40 received dependant on your network operator. **Donations from handsets registered in UK and Northern Ireland only.

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