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Donor's Choose Bait and Switch

by Dan Leopold

Aug 18, 2010

THE LATEST DONORS CHOOSE SCAM - PLEASE READ IN IT'S ENTIRETY

THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL EMAIL I WROTE DONORS CHOOSE

> >**QUESTIONTYPE** My Posted Project >**PROPOSAL.ID** 392783 >**PROPOSAL.TITLE** Want to Bang on the Drum All Day! >**ADDITIONAL.PROPOSALS** > >**MESSAGE** I got an email with the subject > >- Your project is eligible for an "Almost Home" offer: Want to Bang on the Drum All Day! > >I looked for the Almost Home logo on my webpage and could not find it, nor was my balance reduced to under 100 dollars. > >What I did notice is that the > >AO Fans and Glamberts - Glam Nation Tour Celebration! > >banner was removed, and I had two of their members support my project because of mention on their webpage. > >Please explain, > >Thanks, > >Dan Leopold

HERE IS THE LETTER I GOT IN RESPONSE

Thank you for contacting DonorsChoose.org! We truly apologize for this issue.

Yesterday w...See More

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nava This must be what just happened to me. I had a majority of my cost covered by FreeCreditReport.com. I couldn't believe it. I emailed my family and got within $45 of completing it. I was waiting a few days to see if more family would give during the "matching" time frame. Today I went to look at my account, and the FCR.com money is gone, with no exp...See More

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Uncle Ronnie On 8/18/10, Dan Leopold wrote: > THE LATEST DONORS CHOOSE SCAM - PLEASE READ IN IT'S ENTIRETY > > THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL EMAIL I WROTE DONORS CHOOSE > >> >>**QUESTIONTYPE** My Posted Project >>**PROPOSAL.ID** 392783 >>**PROPOSAL.TITLE** Want to Bang on the Drum All Day! >>**ADDITIONAL.PROPOSALS** >> &g...See MoreOn 8/18/10, Dan Leopold wrote: > THE LATEST DONORS CHOOSE SCAM - PLEASE READ IN IT'S ENTIRETY > > THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL EMAIL I WROTE DONORS CHOOSE > >> >>**QUESTIONTYPE** My Posted Project >>**PROPOSAL.ID** 392783 >>**PROPOSAL.TITLE** Want to Bang on the Drum All Day! >>**ADDITIONAL.PROPOSALS** >> >>**MESSAGE** I got an email with the subject >> >>- Your project is eligible for an "Almost Home" offer: Want > to Bang on the Drum All Day! >> >>I looked for the Almost Home logo on my webpage and could > not find it, nor was my balance reduced to under 100 dollars. >> >>What I did notice is that the >> >>AO Fans and Glamberts - Glam Nation Tour Celebration! >> >>banner was removed, and I had two of their members support > my project because of mention on their webpage. >> >>Please explain, >> >>Thanks, >> >>Dan Leopold > > > HERE IS THE LETTER I GOT IN RESPONSE > > > Thank you for contacting DonorsChoose.org! We truly > apologize for this issue. > > Yesterday we released a new feature to send emails to > teachers when their projects become eligible for an Almost > Home or Double Your Impact offer. We were excited about this > new feature, as we always like to give teachers as much > information as possible and alert them to any new > opportunity. Since your project qualified for The Seth > Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation Almost Home > offer, you received a copy of this email letting you know. > > As mentioned in that email, although a logo appeared on your > project page, funding from Seth Sprague Educational and > Charitable Foundation was not guaranteed, as a lot of > projects qualify for each available offer and only some > actually receive funding in each case. However, offers do > usually remain on projects for much longer than a day. We > were shocked at the response from teachers to these emails! > It seems that teachers were so excited about this > opportunity that many emailed friends, causing the funding > to run out in this case much more quickly than we ever > expected - more than ten times faster than usual. > > --------In your case it sounds like the offer ran out before > you even made it to your project page-------- > > Thus, this funding has been spent out, so funds no longer > remain to be applied to additional requests. We are truly > sorry for any confusion this email may have caused and are > working hard to ensure that this does not happen again. > Please also know that your projects still have an awesome > chance of full funding on DonorsChoose.org - especially > during back to school season! It looks like you have already > benefited from another recent opportunity through Adam Lambert. > > Thanks for all that you do and please let me know if you > have any further questions. For full details on Almost Home > offers, check out the follow FAQ on our site: > [link removed]

I noticed "Donors Choose" requires that all purchases go through THEM. What's up with that? Are they getting a kickback from vendors? Are the products overpriced to allow a kickback? Don't the teachers know best who they need to buy from? Seems very fishy to me.

May 20, 2016

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