Send in those Coupons! We Want the Cash!

by VM44 6 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  VM44

  The Watchtower Publishing Corporation has organized fund raising activities in the past.

  Read the following excerpts from the INFORMANT, which was an early version of today's OUR KINGOM MINISTRY .

  INFORMANT, December, 1938 Brooklyn

  Coupons

  The coupons we can redeem with the Premium Department in Jersey City are as follows:

  Octagon Soap Products;
  Kirkman Soap Products;
  Health Club Baking Power;
  Ballard's Obelisk Flour, and
  Luzianne Coffee and Tea.

  INFORMANT, January, 1939 Brooklyn

  Coupons

  Bundles should be sent insured instead of registered. Borden coupons are not redeemable for cash and should not be included in packets sent us. Send a post card stating number, kind and value of coupons being sent. Do not inclose this in packages

  The Watchtower was having the companies, or congregations, send in bundles of coupon (Box tops) so that they could redeem them for CASH!

  Except the Borden coupons! They couldn't get cash for those and so didn't want them.

  --VM44
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  AlmostAtheist

  Luzianne Coffee and Tea.

  I don't know about those other things, but Luzianne is still around. It would be awesome to get some boxtops together and a scan of that article, then send it all into the Watchtower.

  Here ya go, Brothers, consider me paid up for this year!

  It wouldn't 'strike a blow' or wake anybody up, but it would be FUN!

  Dave
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  VM44

  To receive the large number of coupons required to make the venture worthwhile, the Watchtower had to ASK the congregations to collect and send BUNDLES of coupons to them.

  So much for the Watchtower saying that it hasn't solicited people in the past for funds (or, as in this case, cash equivalent coupons).

  --VM44
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  sinis

  INFORMANT, January, 1939 Brooklyn

  Coupons

  Bundles should be sent insured instead of registered. Borden coupons are not redeemable for cash and should not be included in packets sent us. Send a post card stating number, kind and value of coupons being sent. Do not inclose this in packages.

  Aaaaaaa, why are they asking that the coupons be sent seperate with no value attached. While sending a post card with the info contained in the seperate box? Sounds EXACTLY like the donation change in the 90's and now, were you can request "free"literature. They would send the bible in one box and then send a postcard seperately thanking you for the "donation" to the world wide work...
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  VM44

  And what is with this?

  Bundles should be sent insured instead registered.

  Who was going to reimburse the congregations for the added expense of sending the bundles of coupons by insured mail?

  Even if the coupon bundle became lost in the mail, the Watchtower still wanted the money it represented!

  --VM44
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  james_woods

  Remember the food coupons? We were told to buy more than we thought we would need (well in advance of the assembly) and to just drop the ones we had left over in the contribution box.

  They changed the color each time around so the leftovers could not be used at the next assembly.

  I think that the Society kept open solicitation pretty quiet through the 60s, but they started beating the drum pretty hard in the 70s when they bought all the computer typesetting equipment and switched over to offset printing. There were lots of talks and articles about "giving your fair share" and what-not about that time.

  And don't let us forget the phony accounting that throws each and every assembly into "loss" mode so everybody guilt trips into making up the "loss" on the last day.
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  fullofdoubtnow

  Just another piece of evidence to prove what we all know - that they are money grabbing charlatans rather than true christians. Thanks VM44 for that.