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Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	23 Apr 2009 15:42
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Aww Shimms, I'm glad it was legitimate after all, but you did the right thing. The point is, there are plenty of people who would go door-to-door collecting under the guise of charity, and this could so easily have been one of them. Who would know? I'm like others, I don't give anything or sign anything at the door, and I certainly give absolutely no information over the phone, even on a call I know is legitimate, like the one from BT offering me a credit card a couple of weeks ago.
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,784 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	23 Apr 2009 17:05
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,784 Send Message	These Charity doorknockers seem to keep a record of whether you are in so that they can come back. This happened to a friend recently - she had heard a knock and looked out of her top window to see someone crossing over between two gardens - he came back later that evening when I was visiting her. Then a week later I had one come to my door twice, once in the afternoon and once in the evening - because she hadn't kept her records properly. Don't they realise that lots of people living on their own won't open their front doors in the evenining?