NKF Charity Show

• dragg

  3 Jul 05, 23:16

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  hate it when the hosts kept telling us to call the hotlines so that we can win what prize what prize. that beats the purpose of having a charity show right?

  what the host did was what he was told to do - encourage people to donate!! the means is not exactly important as long as they achieve the target.
• Gordonator

  3 Jul 05, 23:48

  encourage people to donate is one thing but luring them to donate in the hope of winning something is another. i believe many of us donate because wefeel for the patients and is doing our part to help them.
  
  it's charity afterall, not gambling.
• dragg

  3 Jul 05, 23:50

  it hurts to see the 7 year old kid with his leg amputated.
  
  
• k4korny

  4 Jul 05, 00:20

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  encourage people to donate is one thing but luring them to donate in the hope of winning something is another. i believe many of us donate because wefeel for the patients and is doing our part to help them.
  
  it's charity afterall, not gambling.

  As i said earlier, NKF is just trying to capture different market segments to donate. Those ppl, who feels for the patients, will donate no matter wat. But for those who doesn't feel for them, the way to appeal to these ppl, is to make them treat the donation as a lottery...
  
  In fact, there's another market segment, and that's the fans.. that's why nkf spends a lot of $$ to bring in overseas singers like 5566, Energy, the old Canto and taiwanese stars.. Do u think these artiste will travel all the way here to perform for free? But the youngsters and the old folks are spending big $$ to support their idols with their donations.
  
  it sounds twisted to link charity with gambling.. but IMO, as long as they are getting more donations, whatever method they used will be justified.
• iveco

  4 Jul 05, 00:23

  Originally posted by k4korny:

  As i said earlier, NKF is just trying to capture different market segments to donate. Those ppl, who feels for the patients, will donate no matter wat. But for those who doesn't feel for them, the way to appeal to these ppl, is to make them treat the donation as a lottery....

  Well, I feel for the patients. However, the NKF CEO's behaviour is highly questionable at times. If I wanted to help kidney patients, I'd have made a will transferring a large portion of my assets to KDF.
• drx

  4 Jul 05, 04:32

  Work for NKF to earn more mpney from people!!!