Regular Rant #1 UPDATED 12/01/2013 NEW UPDATE 27/01/2013

Forgive me if I offend anyone, but I was so pissed off on Sunday I felt i needed to have a rant, I am sure that I will have more over the next year or so, and will vent my frustrations here.

Anyway, back to Sunday, well the previous week to start with, Mary, my Mother-in-law had two old televisions that were not digital compatible, so they need a sky box or freeview box so they can get programmes, the TV's work fine, and are in brilliant condition, so she decided rather than throw them out, give them to charity.

 The British Heart Foundation was chosen and she called them to see if they would be interested, they were and they agreed to come and collect them on Sunday morning, they duly arrived as promised, and the collection guy refused to take them, saying that they do not take black televisions.

I'm sorry "you don't take black televisions", why in the hell not, well, apparently they prefer to have the silver one, huh, so for aesthetic reasons they wont take two perfectly good condition perfectly working televisions, so it seems that a charity business is now becoming picky in what they take.

What in the hell does it matter, I am sure there are 100's of people out there that would love to have a television, that don't care if it is black, silver, green, pink, well, maybe not pink, but you know what I mean, with so many people in this country that are below the  poverty level, cant afford the basics, and rely on the generosity of others for the necessities in life, to be given or purchase for a nominal sum a perfectly good TV is a great thing.

There is nothing on the BHF website that says they do not want black TV's, nothing at all, my M-I-L was not told anything like this when she contacted them, and to be honest every TV you buy these days is black, so what's there problem.

It seems that the BHF is picky and only want things they deem as appropriate and not what is needed by us the public that can use them, So, what does she do now, well, she is offering them free to a good home via a card in a local shop window, if then they do not go, well, they will be binned, and what an awful dreadful waste that will be.

Shame on you British Heart Foundation for being to posh for your own good and not considering those that are really in need.

UPDATE

Well, after a week of communication between the BHF and myself, I find that it is not there policy to refuse any TV that falls in there acceptability range, mainly a SCART socket, which they have, they have apologised to me and the MIL, and are going to arrange for the TV's to be collected, so a win for Joe Public, at least now someone who needs a cheap to buy TV can get a good one.

Also, the guy that post as anonymous, can you please send me a PM via Facebook, I have some info for you.

Unfortunately another poor UPDATE 

Am i surprised to writing this, no, not really, in fact I am surprised I did not write it earlier, The BHF agreed to collect the two televisions, a lady called Nicola was supposed to speak with my MIL to sort it out, but guess what nothing, last Tuesday my MIL called the BHF and after press 1 press 2 press 3 and so on, she left a message, and no one has bothered to call her back, I wont say she was upset or anything, because i think she, like me were resigned to the fact that the BHF just don't care.

How a charity, that relies on the generosity of the general public to continue the work they do, can treat a pensioner who is giving them two televisions, is beyond me, I find that this charity is one that deserves not to be supported if this is how generous donations are received, to be told that they do not refuse anything that falls within there guidelines, and then they cant be arsed to collect them.

We were going to have a good clear out  and we have lots of things that could be given to charity but I can assure you that NONE of them will be going to the British Heart Foundation, am I being harsh, god no, people of a certain age have different values to younger people, they believe in using things until they break, rather than getting new every five minutes.

My grandmother was the same, if she had something that she no longer needed she would try to give it to someone before throwing it away, because that's the way they were brought up, and for this situation to be made worse by sheer rudeness on the part of the BHF towards my MIL by ignoring her message and not bothering to follow up on there original call, Its a shame I am not running that part of the charity, because the person who is running it now, surely has no idea how to.