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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Appreciate the different viewpoints, seems most people agree it's tacky. I still think it's tacky - you can't RVSP yes without entering your credit card information.

My son used to be close friends with the birthday boy, but now they're in different schools. Birthday boy's mom is a work colleague so I don't want to offend.

Anyway I decided I will email the host directly to say we are coming because I can't RVSP using the website without submitting my credit card info and I'll tell her I wasn't comfortable with the procedure. I told my son that his friend wanted to support WWF and asked that part of his birthday gift be a donation to support endangered animals. I thought it was a good lesson to hear about someone sacrificing their birthday gift to help animals. I thought it was a good lesson to understand there are endangered animals and we need to help protect them if we want them to stay around longer. We went to the WWF website and made a donation in honor of his friend and they will receive a birthday card via email from WWF with a message that my son wanted to include in the card. He also chose the birthday design. I am ok with supporting WWF - but if had been a charity I didn't believe in supporting, I wouldn't have donated. This way I'll get a tax receipt for the donation.

The gift...I really like the idea of a playdate instead of a toy. I think we'll set that up.

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PP here who said you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I'm now in the fully tacky camp. You can't RSVP without entering a credit card number? Wow. I hope the mom did not realize that when she signed up. She might be embarrassed when you email her that info! (She should be). Geez. I agree with a PP -- very poor execution. [/quote]

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