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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    82·
    9 months ago

    I never said they were unique. I said they were unusual and that you generally can’t get them elsewhere. That makes them desirable. I’m not sure why you think it doesn’t.

    “They cannot make a profit”, out of curisoity what would you call charging 54% on top of the 24% cost, non-profit profit?

    Raising funds. That is something any nonprofit can do. How do you think nonprofits stay in operation?

    • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      310·
      9 months ago

      Unusual is quite literally a synonym for unique. If you are saying something is unusual and difficult to acquire that makes it unique by the very definition of the word.

      Raising funds is correct, non-profits do need to offset their cost to stay solvent which is why the services you received are paid for by dues which is how the GSA remains solvent. That includes access to their resources for selling cookies as a fundraiser, you have already paid for this so the company has no need to charge you. Yet you’re paying them an additional 54% of your revenue even though you already prepaid for the cost of the fundraiser.

      Here’s a link to the GSA’s 2023 earnings and you can see the money made from the fundraiser is pennies compared to their dues.

      If you think the organization that is fairly funded through your dues to access the resources and services should be paid the majority of profit from your fundraiser instead of giving that money directly to the children it’s meant to fundraiser then good for you, I personally don’t think a fundraiser should be used to raise funds for an organization you’ve already fairly compensated.

      We clearly have different opinions on the matter and that’s cool, but I’m not going to spend the rest of my day debating. It’s good to have met you Flying Squid and I wish you and your daughter the best.

        • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          9 months ago

          Because Merrian-Webster’s website is designed to take the boiled-down definition and show the synonyms for that, so you are looking at the synonyms for “uncommon”; If you type in unique as the search term you’ll see what I mean as it boils down the definitions into “personal, unusual, only, and uncommon” and shows the synonyms for those.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            91·
            9 months ago

            Are you really going to insist that when I said unusual I meant unique when I’m telling you I didn’t?

            • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              Hi again Flying Squid, first I just wanted to apologize to you and admit I was wrong. I misread the 2023 earnings report where it stated fundraising was $4.4 million as revenue instead of an expense, so when you read it like I did originally it would mean they make 97% from dues and other means and 3% from fundraising (which is false). Which is why I tried to defend my position that there’s no value in taking that from the children and it’s just a cash grab. Second, no I was not trying to dictate what you meant, I was simply pointing out that the words can be used interchangeably after you cited my usage of the word unique when you said unusual.