Posts Tagged ‘Charity’

Hat Trick Shot Glass Window Treatment Center Post Office Space

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

A hat I signed (among many, many others) at the World Horror Convention is up for sale at a charity auction on eBay for horror writer Bryan Smith, whose wife recently died after a long illness.

And let’s face it it, the line “Signatures include: Peter Straub, William F. Nolan, Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jack Ketchum, Lawrence Person, Brian Keene, Joe Hill, John Picacio, Bill Crider, John Skipp,” etc., is pretty flattering to one’s ego, since not even Your Humble Egomaniac would put those names in that order…

(Hat tip for structure of the subject line here.)

The Fake Book Charity Box Scam

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

So, you’ve got some old books and see a big box that says “Books for Charity” on the side, and you think “Well, that’s better than selling them to a used bookstore, isn’t it?”

Not so fast. You could be about ready to fall for a Penny Seller scam. A tiny portion, 25% or less, goes to charity; the rest of the books are sold for profit for a company called Thrift Recycling Management, or pulped.

They’re also torpedoing friends of the library sales, which are a much more deserving destination for your book donations than a for-profit company that doles out a few pennies for charity.