Go Fund me or Go **** off?

As already remarked on, we are all free to give or not as we please.
There are deserving cases but do research if you can to make sure they’re genuine.

Trouble is like a lot of good things it has become abused what started as good idea has become a free for every tom dick and harry it is a shame as lots of deserving causes get buried under all the scams

Sago

I think go fund me has become a good excuse for people not to take financial responsibility.

Should the organisation only allow appeals via registered charities?

I also agree. More and more people do not take out holiday insurance or do take it out and then go and rent out scooters, bikes etc. which are not included in the insurance policy as there is a different section for this.

I have found that some elderly friends with reportable illnesses have not even taken out an insurance policy as it was too expensive and they thought they would be okay when on holiday, but then tripped or slipped on a marble floor and broken their leg and are asking their family to pay for the hospital treatment.

Serves themselves right, I have no sympathy.

I can see no reason why he should ever have left the road. safe walking on a good surface, the hopes of hitchhiking a lift from a passing vehicle.

Just because Michael Mosely was found in a rocky precipitous landscape, doesn't mean that that is where all holiday makers who miss a bus end up. MM set out to walk a cross country footpath. Jay Slater didn't.

I have no idea and no theories about what happened to this lad, but that he got lost in wild landscape, when he was walking along a road seems to me one of the least probably explanations for his disappearance.

If a wild boar got him I presume nobody would ever find out?

I don't to sound like a prophet of doom but there are rather a lot of wild boar on Tenerife.

Love it Winnie and GSM! Cynics? Of course not! Something feels fishy Can't pinpoint what it is.

Germanshepherdsmum

It’s been changed OldFrill. Originally the friend and the mother were beneficiaries. The mother also wants to use part of the money to fly other family members out ….

Yes I saw this too. Fly other family members to ' help with the search ,'
If the trained search organisations can't find him then how will untrained friends who live down the same street help ?
There was mentioned that they were there for a free holiday..But.....

I agree Monica and as the very generous British public have donated over 36 thousand I think it shows that many people are concerned..

Parents and family do not grieve or worry less because they have a criminal record.

Even if this lad has started life badly, it doesn't mean that his parents and friends are not as distressed and worried as Michael Moseley's family were when he also went on an ill fated walk and died on the Greek island of Simi.

They should be treated with the same sympathy and concern.

As others have said I think it depends on the reason for the request, I certainly wouldn't pay if it was somebody who hadn't bothered to take out insurance. I'm also not keen on sending people overseas for treatment unless the patient's NHS doctors genuinely recommend it. Some overseas treatment centres are set up by charlatans with no reasonable chance for the patient's recovery.
I'm also annoyed by sponsorship requests from children for expenditure on what is really a glorified holiday.

It’s been changed OldFrill. Originally the friend and the mother were beneficiaries. The mother also wants to use part of the money to fly other family members out ….

I’ve just seen a report in the DM on line, indicating Jay Slater’s mum wants to withdraw from the Go Fund Me money to fund the family’s living expenses

The beneficiary is Jay Slater's mother. GoFundMe have protected the money and it will only be paid out if they approve the circumstances. If not paid out all donations will be refunded

The beneficiaries are the friend who set it up, who has been alleged to be a drug dealer, and the mother. I suppose the friend could just withdraw all the money.

If the Jay Slater fund is a scam or whatever and I am most certainly not saying it is, do you think the family would have the nerve to draw on it except for exceptional circumstance after all the speculation.
It should certainly be accounted for, every last penny.

I have never contributed although if I thought someone /something was deserving I might.
How is anyone sure that they're not being scammed ?
For that reason I prefer to contribute to registered charities.
OH and I have very , very light digital footprints and yet still we get loads of scamming rubbish daily.
That's why I am cautious as, I suspect, most people are.

You can always choose not to give. It isn’t compulsive.

They have already raised over £30k Ali - and there is suspicion that it’s a scam to pay off his drug debts.

Calendargirl

I thought the missing teenager was 19, not 17.

Yes, that's right. He is 19. So young.

And then there's the one set up for Jay Slater who is missing in Spain.
It has amassed quite a lot in little time and his mum and older brother have gone out there to help look for him BUT, they have done so on their own money!!!

Every time I go into a shop and pay by card, I am asked if I'd like to donate to charity?
Well, no, actually, I flaming well don't want to donate to charity, where does it all end?
I'm not being stingy, but I like to choose which charities I give money to, when I give it, how much and how often?! Do they bother cash payers like that? No, they blimmin don't!!

But, tbh, I may pay into Jay Slaters, if only for his family to get his body back to England, if it's unfortunate that he isn't found alive!!

Rant over.

The Tenerife Go Fund Me will not receive anything from me.

I would rather donate directly to a cause local to me than use one of those websites.

Agree

Yes 19 calendar girl. Apologies for my typos

Joseann

There must be more to the Tenerife appeal than meets the eye.

I think there is a great deal more to than meets the eye, yes. I know X (formerly known as Twitter) can be an absolute cesspit of a site, but the threads on there do make 'interesting' reading to say the least.