The 24 hour gaming marathon for charity

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But by providing the details of a corrupt charity that has nothing to do with this charity event and telling people to be very careful about giving to charity, do you realize you could unnecessarily be dissuading people from supporting this specific charity event?
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Not really, providing the charity does what it says and I have no reason whatsoever to think otherwise, why would anyone be put off? Charities themselves warn about checking the credentials of those who collect for charity in the high street before giving them money, because your money may not end up where you think it will, they obviously don't think it puts people off. Finding out how a charity spends its donations is no different, not doing so is in effect saying I can't spare the time to ensure it's going to actually help those who need it. But I disagree with your analogy of the Titanic, there's not a lot people can do to ensure the ship they sail on is safe these days, I think a more appropriate analogy would be to warn people buying tickets on the internet to be careful who they purchase from, does it stop people buying tickets? nope, but it may help ensure they end up with legitimate ones from a legitimate source. I donate what I can afford to a cat charity each year, but I like to be sure that most of the money I'm donating is going to help cats, to me that's part of the responsiblity of giving to charity, it doesn't just start and end with opening my wallet.

Just for the record - it says on the Turbine Extra Life page, all proceeds go to the charity, and on the Children's Miracle Network Hospital FAQ page it says 'Our operational expenses are met by generous underwriting from national sponsors such as Walmart, RE/MAX, Foresters and others.'

So no worries about where the money is ending up