You'd think maybe they'd find dealers who would be willing to provide title services as a donation-in-kind. Tax writeoff for the dealer, plus goodwill. More $$$ for the charity. Maybe not enough kind-hearted dealers around?
On the other hand if the charity is volunteer-run, it sort of makes sense to keep the workload to a minimum, otherwise you lose volunteers. Allan Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > I would imagine after their fees, and the copart fees, the check is probably > very small. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 19, 2021, at 5:52 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> They don’t care, because it’s essentially free money for them. >> >> My local NPR station has a guy that coordinates these donations. That is, he >> makes the calls to the service that disposes of the cars/boats/whatever. >> They never touch or see the vehicle, they just call a service that picks it >> up, determines the best way to get rid of it (many times it’s CoPart) and >> sends them the check after deducting his fees. >> >> -D >> >>> On Jan 18, 2021, at 9:45 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2021-01-18 19:51, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>>> Too bad you have to have a dealers license or use a broker for TN >>>> https://www.copart.com/lot/53868750/clean-title-1985-mercedes-benz-500-sel-tn-memphis >>> >>> Around here, the donation places don't want to mess with retitling, so they >>> just leave it on the donor's title and sell it to dealers who can reassign >>> the title. But that kills the auction value of the donated car. It's as if >>> the charities don't care, because the car was free. >>> _______________________________________ 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
