Change.org

Whilst I have signed several petitions that are worthwhile causes I refused to sign one recently as I felt there was a hidden agenda and other implications which were not shared openly with us. I felt that the owner of the petition had their own personal agenda which they were not making clear to us deliberately. I would advise not To just blindly sign anything that appears a moral black-and-white but to be careful what you wish for as the saying goes. If the information is not explain clearly either on change.org or on a parent website then do not sign. This will lead to more transparency and help us make up our own minds. As I say I have signed many petitions which are worthwhile but beware of hidden agendas. As regards change.org themselves there is a web page that appears after you sign Asking if I you would like to spend a considerable sum to petition other persons who may or may not sign it. This is crass and exploitive marketeering and a charitable platform should not be used to make a profit. Reject it immediately. We are trying to help people not line their pockets. Good but be careful

ZERO STARS IS WHAT THEY DESERVE
Don't do anything with this demonic site! I donated to ONE cause and since then I have continued to sign petitions with the one click method. I didn't understand why I received a Thank you for becoming a member email after a typical petition signing.
What do I see on my cc statement this month? A $5.00 charge from Change.org that I NEVER AUTHORIZED. I wasn't even asked if I'd like to be a member. STAY AWAY FROM ANYTHING WITH THEIR NAME ON IT!

I FIRST STARTED OUT, WITH 63 SIGNERS, THAT WAS QUICKLY REDUCED 2 JUST 2. I HAD 2 JOIN, THEIR TROUBLE SHOOTING WEBSITE, WHICH PROVED 2 B USELESS. I IMMEDIATELY CANCELLED MY CREDIT CARD.THE SIGNERS WERE RELATIVES & FRIENDS. I HOPE, THAT I'VE BEEN OF HELP

Although Change.org purports to advocate positive change it should make an effort to at least get the facts straight when it posts a petition. They posted a petition about a mother being charged with vehicular homicide in the death of her child which occurred while she was crossing a dark road outside of the crosswalk with several children. A person hit them and kept going. The driver turned himself in a couple of days later and pled guilty to hit and run. The mother was charged with misdemeanor charges and prosecuted by the Solicitor General's Office. The petition named the District Attorney by name and his office instead of correctly identifying the prosecuting authority. We cannot get in touch or get a reply from anyone at Change.org to correct this and it has greatly impacted our ability to do business due to all the folks calling and emailing about a case that we had no authority over. If they will not correct this error then how many other errors are there in the "petitions" they are creating?

I was so upset at the killing of HARABE ( REST IN PEACE and known you have changed the world!) that I ( against intellectual judgement) decided to sign the petition. Feeling good about this support, I was immediately disturbed at the next page asking for a donation, with a sympathetic claim that a donation could make a difference.
This prompted me to start a petition for CHILD ENDANGERMENT charges against the parents of the boy who fell in with HARABE because of the allegations they may seek damages ( sue the zoo) for the zoo not preventing the boy from accessing the area.

Week, guess who was not allowed to start a petition for this cause.

SHAME ON YOU change.org. You money grubbing bastards!

I hope someday there will be a petition to shut you down and then finally a good change will prevail.

I was just given the opportunity to sign a petition asking that the health care system pay for items like false breasts and such for persons who identify with the opposite gender but don't choose to have the surgery.

This peeves me no end and I'll tell you why. I have MS and if the day comes when I need to use a wheelchair, I'll have to pay for it myself. I have to use catheters to urinate and I have to pay for them myself. Liberal PM Paul Martin rejigged the eligibility criteria for getting a CPP disability pension so that only persons who'd gotten disabled very quickly and had been making CPP payments in full could apply. That left me ineligible because, being honest, I'd gone on working part time as long as I could.

So I won't be signing change.org petitions in future either, as I know from my own unpleasant experience that this was an uninformed petition. How many that I signed were similarly false?

Just want to clarify my review. I'm Canadian and the petition that peeved me so much was directed at the Canadian health care system.

CHANGE.ORG ARE PROMOTING A ULEZ PETITION THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE CLOSED DOWN OVER 12 MONTHS AGO. BUT THEY ARE STILL ALLOWING PEOPLE TO SIGN IT AND MAKE A £7 CONTRIBUTION.

Thousands of Londoners are extremely concerned regarding the financial impact of the Mayor of London's plan to extend the ULEZ zone into the outer London Boroughs which could cost them upto £4550 pa in penalty payments or lose £thousands in having to scrap, sell or replace their car.

A number of these people set up petitions on change.org in the hope that like-minded people would support them by signing their petition. In doing so change.org also ask for financial contributions to support the petition.

One of these petitions is to do with expanding the ULEZ zone upto the North and South Circular Roads, which, regardless of the petition, was enforced by TFL over 12 months ago. In which case this petition should have been closed.

Unfortunately this didn't happen and even now,change.org are allowing people to sign this petition and may even be paying the £7 contribution asked for by change.org.

As an objector of ULEZ and a user of change.org I complained and even though they agree people are still signing this petition, they refuse to close it down or at least prevent any new signatures being added and contributions being made.

They said the original proposer has to do this as their systems won't allow them to do so.

Gave one off donation to causes that concerned me ie conservation issues in Australia, and then found out I was contributing $ 40 per month