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Category: What's on my mind |
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Posted by:
Genevieve
Date:
1/1/2008 10:50:00 AM
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| About Genevieve: |
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Female |
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29 |
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South Africa |
| City: |
Johannesburt |
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I went to draw money at an FNB ATM and while I was waiting for my cash, an advert popped up on the screen. It was for the guide dog association, and showed a cute labrador with a request for a R10 donation.
So I thought why not – I’m taking out a few hundred anyway so lets give a bit of charity at the same time. I’m looking for the button to push to give a donation and then I see that there isn’t one - you have to send a premium-rated SMS to a number.
Now please help me understand this. Here is a campaign set up by a bank (which is in the business of money transactions), at an ATM (whose job it is to move money out of bank accounts) and I have to send an SMS on my cellphone?!
Why don’t they simply have a button that I push and the money automatically comes off my account and goes into the account of the guide dogs association?
Well done FNB for supporting a charity, but why not do it properly?
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