Charities who cold call you (as they're annoyingly entitled to, as they, religious organisations, and political parties, are exempt from observing the
Do Not Call Register) prefacing the conversation by saying that they're not asking for a donation, but after a long-winded-rambling-read from a script, want you to sign up for a regular donation!
I usually cut such conversations short, indicating that I'm not interested, and request that I be added to their internal do not call register.
In the case that prompted this post, I have a history of donations to the organisation (
CareFlight) so I listened until the end, then politely declined.
My history is that of purchasing
CareFlight Bears. I have ~20 of them, and at the time I paid ~$60 for each, understanding that most of that would go to the charity.
Please excuse the nakedness of some of my bears; I removed their costumes after noticing some mouldiness and moth-eating.
I believe that the reason why I stopped buying them was because I requested that I be added to their internal do not call register so that I wasn't tempted to do so?