Need Advice re: Susan G Komen

[OakLeaf]

It's not a boycott at all. If SGK were on the list of charities to which TE donated, then taking it off that list would be a boycott, but I don't think they ever were?

Maybe you don't even have this kind of thing in Norway. SGK is most notorious for it and may have started the practice, but in the USA we have all kinds of products sold by private corporations, tagged prominently with the logo of some charity, sometimes costing more than the identical non-tagged product, and promising to make some minuscule donation to that charity for every product sold. I find the whole practice repellent, honestly, much as Tulip said, whether the alleged beneficiary is Komen, Livestrong, some phony invented veterans' charity (a particularly common front for scammers in the US), or even something that I would support with a direct donation. It's a purely profit motivated attempt by manufacturers not affiliated with the charity to make themselves seem benevolent. And to take a tax deduction (albeit usually an exceedingly small one) from money collected collected from their customers, not from their own profits.

Susan's question was whether to offer some of that product in her store. Not whether to boycott other products of whatever manufacturer it is. Which she wisely hasn't said, and shouldn't.

[lph]

okdoke. Like I said, I'm not very familiar with the details.

eta: but yes, I did use the term boycott wrongly. What I meant was simply refusing to buy something for political or ethical reasons, whether it's her own reasons, or the reasons given by her customers.

[goldfinch]

If your agreement/understanding with the vendor allows you to cancel the order my inclination would be to cancel. I question what kind of sales you would have for that product at this point.

FWIW. My view may be colored by the fact that I would not buy these items but like many here, I wouldn't have bought them before the kerfuffle.

[pll]

Interesting discussion. I do not buy 'advertising' items, so I would not have bought a Komen branded jersey before. As several have mentioned, it is a business decision, but I think it is also one personal to TE.