Showing posts with label children in need. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children in need. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Ethical Nails?

Last night I happened on an auction on eBay.  The auction was for 'Children in Need Pudsey False Nails'.  How nice I thought, using your talent for charity, something I should probably do a little more of (though as an aside I've spent the week working on nails for a Lymphoma Charity Auction).

As I read through the auction it dawned on me that the nails, featuring the charity mascot and colours had nothing at all to do with the charity and the seller of the nails was keeping all £3.99 + P&P to themselves.

Now this annoyed me.  Children in need is a big event in the UK, to use the mascot of a charity to sell nails to fill your own pockets is morally wrong I feel and completely unethical.  It annoyed me so much actually I dropped everything I was doing and made a set of my own set of Pudsey Children In Need nails, but the difference being every penny from their sale will go to Children In Need charity.  I'll even pay the postage.


What are your thoughts on using a charity logo to sell your items?