“Like when they send you a free tape in the mail – most people give more
This deserved repeating. I’ve heard that if you repeat something idiotic, it starts to seem true, so I repeated it.”
I once heard from an administrator of a yeshiva the following anecdote, not sure how widespread it is though.
He was soliciting donations on the phone from the “mailing list” a little after Purim, and they came to old man schwartz who lived in another city. After some pleasantries, administrator asked schwartz why he didnt send his “usual annual donation” and schwartz responded that since he didnt get his box of candles chanuka time, he was annoyed at the school. They made sure to send him two packages of charoses and he sent back a nice donation.