On Nov 2, 2014 7:40 PM, "Mitch Haley via Mercedes" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > >> He said they had a few members who donated nice older cars that brought very little, and the donors were not happy about it. > > > It's a Mercedes, by golly. Expect them to sell it for $500-2000 in a charity auction, I'm guessing $1200ish. For quite a while, I think since 2005 or so, you get to deduct what they sold it for.
I have gotten "less than $499" twice, once on a 115 with nothing visibly wrong with it (non-seized engine was disclosed of course), and later on a then ten-year-old Volvo wagon with 140kmi. From the receipts I gather the hauling service is allowed to convert cars to parts if they choose, and then assign a sale value of their own choosing... which somehow turns out to be less than $499 regardless of vehicle. I'm sure this varies by area, but I'm reasonably comfortable saying the haulers in this area make a great profit by collecting cars for non-profits and then turning over as little money as possible to them. On the other hand we do get a lot of nice cars in the junkyards, which are coincidentally run by the same folks... Best, Tim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
