(29-04-2023, 12:34 PM)king1 Wrote:(29-04-2023, 09:58 AM)Reydar Wrote: I saw someone recommend a cute way to giveaway a book. That you go find a cute place to leave in it your town. Picnic table, a park, at the foot of a statue anywhere you think it will be picked up. You can leave a little note on it "I loved reading this, I hope you do too"If you type in "Emma Watson book" into YouTube it's on the Vanity Fair channel. You can see her doing this. I thought it was an adorable way to giveaway a book, DVD or CD. It would be cool to be walking and stumble across something like this. It could really make someone's day
How strict is this board? Because I could tell you who it was but worried I would break a rule about naming people. Type in Bookarama Bishopdale and your answer is there and it's pretty low they would do this yes
Not that strict - Rotary Club of Bishopdale, they should probably know better... I would hazard a guess one of the members owns a bookstore
I love your response *hands trophy to you*
Yes, that is a worry that is the real reason for V.I.P. night
I saw someone post their values and ethos on the thread
I found out about this on.
"Rotary’s Four Way Test to all our activities, measuring everything Rotarians do by the standards of truthfulness, fairness, goodwill and benefit to all."
Everyone thought Rotary was also helping people on the day....The community were right there in the hall with them, the people who went and donated deserve to be treated well too not just about the dollars in the till at the end of the day.
It's so confusing, They have a fundraiser for the community they love but then they thought it was ok for the community to miss out on seeing hundreds of books and other items that could have made many people happy? Even if they made $200 more from a dealer that is simply mean and incredibly unfair.
Even if dealers pay $10 each to gain entry this could backfire. The public who attend may feel it wasn't a good experience and leave early, may not return on other years. Example, I didn't think it was very good last year so didn't bother this year.
The donators are fuming and do not want to donate again. Even if they made more by giving special treatment this time, their actions may effect next year. Mistreat people and all Rotary will have left are the dealers to donate and buy. Greed gets no one anywhere. Play fair,
I saw a great comment on a thread "What's the difference 200 books in the hands of a dealer or 100 people buying 2 books each?" Still the same for their till
I literally thought so did many others that one of the purposes of running the fair was to help those struggling, who couldn't afford to buy brand new and that Rotary put this fair on as part of their "for the community" projects. It ran for 3 days too, Lots of time to get in there
It seems so unfair, and no one knew this was a thing. Hiding the truth is as bad as lying. They should have said dealer night was the day before on the poster...Goodwill! Where is it? Benefit to all? By giving scraps of the donations to the people?
Last year, It was really bad with covid at the time, We literally risked catching it being in that crammed hall with so many people and a lot of people were elderly and could have gotten very ill if they contracted it. Just seems so off, I can't support them anymore after this. It's like they didn't care about the real people in the hall that day to have a good fair go at all and only care about the people or orgs who will receive the funds afterwards. I am truly confused
You know that scene from Beauty and Beast where Beast shows Belle the library full of books and the wonder on her face? That's what it's like seeing all the thousands of books in one place at a fair
Except imagine that scene again with empty shelves cause the dealer's got there first