I chaired a Pta fundraiser with Miss Chocolate for my school Passover fundraiser. At first it seemed like a very easy fundraiser to run, we did our part, sold the chocolate, paid for our order on full, had both internet orders and orders paid by credit card. Everything was good up until this point.
Miss chocolate took our check and did not send us a confirmation of our order, and a total for what we collected. On several occasions I reached out to their office spoke with Maryanne. Maryanne at first was helpful and would tell me that she would get me the information...but it never happened.
Our order got delivered the 2nd week of April and again no check for our school. I called Miss Chocolate and spoke with Maryanne who told me she would get back to me. 3x I was sent invoices stating that we owed them money....I requested to speak to the owner last Wensday and I was told he was on vacation and their bookkeeper was out sick....again this is their business they run fundraiser and write checks back to the organizations...
Spoke with the owner who yelled at me, because I wanted the money we raised. Yes seriously he yelled at me because from March 18th until April 30th his company could not enter into quickbooks our payment and write a check for the amount due back to our school.
Finally Today May 1st our check is ready to pick up. Lol it is wrong. Miss chocolate shorted our group $30 because on their website they had a link for donations and they only wanted to give us 40% of the $100 donation we got...yes they wanted to keep $60. In the end they only gave us 70% of the donation.....how foul us that..
Perhaps they are seriously hurting for money. But when your buisness model is scamming charities I guess eventually you get hit by karma. Perhaps we should know better when $7 woth of candy is marked up $11. Not a 40% markup 157% mark up. All of their products bared the same ridiculous mark ups $7 candy for $12 again 70% mark up.
Miss chocolate is a huge scam and there are other ways to raise funds for your groups... read more