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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp

It's not a high horse.. My wife works for a charity, and people try donating their garbage because it's too expensive to offload elsewhere. A lot of this stuff is expensive when new but basically worthless now, so they dump it off to a charity thinking to themselves that they're being helpful. Or some people just don't realize that they're not being helpful, which is why I posted that information.

If you want to donate, that's great. Get it fixed first, then donate it. Don't give someone your garbage because either it's too expensive to fix, or too expensive to discard.

If the charity has a deal with someone who will donate repair services, that's fine, and I can see some places relying on that. Don't assume it though. Nobody wants garbage, not even charities. A lot of the time you're costing them time and money rather than helping them out.

You guys can keep coming at me trying to make me feel bad, but this is something to consider. I think dukes is a considerate guy, and he won't do something like this without at least looking into it first.

I think you misunderstand. These charities have programs specifically FOR these sort of clunkers. They take them in any condition and they auction them off for whatever they can get (maybe scrap value, maybe more). They don't fix them.