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RE: Would you be open to _________
June 20, 2020 at 4:42 pm
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(June 20, 2020 at 4:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (June 20, 2020 at 4:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It’s even easier to ring up a local charity, let them haul it away, and take the tax deduction.
Boru
Nope.
You do it your way.
I do it mine.
Fixing stuff at selling at a profit - indeed driving for free - appeals strongly to my capitalist sense....
Most people lose money on cars.
I don't.
Whaddya mean ‘nope’? It IS easier. No profit involved, but some of us have motivations beyond profit.
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RE: Would you be open to _________
June 20, 2020 at 5:25 pm
Would you be open to fixing the AC, trading it in, and then giving me the cash?
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June 20, 2020 at 6:18 pm
(June 20, 2020 at 5:24 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (June 20, 2020 at 4:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Whaddya mean ‘nope’? It IS easier. No profit involved, but some of us have motivations beyond profit.
Boru
And some of us - especially the ones on meager fixed incomes are highly motivated by profit.
So no means no.
Oh, sorry - I misunderstood. Your ‘nope’ meant you wouldn’t do it that way, not that donating wasn’t easier than fixing and selling cars. Got it now.
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RE: Would you be open to _________
June 20, 2020 at 7:43 pm
(June 20, 2020 at 7:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (June 20, 2020 at 6:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Oh, sorry - I misunderstood. Your ‘nope’ meant you wouldn’t do it that way, not that donating wasn’t easier than fixing and selling cars. Got it now.
Boru
Yeah..
I always wonder who ends up with those cars...
NPR is big on that... I knew one guy that donated his car (with a con rod knock) and wrote it off his taxes.
Sleazebag move in my book....
And since they bumped up the standard deduction - very few people can do better itemizing...
There’s an apprentice programme for auto repair techs a few towns from here. They take donated cars, fix and sell them. They’ll probably get the Range Rover when it gives up the ghost.
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June 21, 2020 at 7:03 am
I donated a demon pickup to Good Will. I pity the sucker that gets that one.
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RE: Would you be open to _________
June 21, 2020 at 7:54 am
My son's Mustang was trashed by the freak hail storm that decimated our town four years ago. He kept driving it because it was paid off. It was beat to shit and some of the dents were starting to rust due to the damage to the paint. He decided he would drive it until costs for mechanical repairs became equal to or more then his payments had been. It finally stopped running completely leaving him stranded. It was a total POS at that point.
I suggested donating it as there is a place around here that will come get your heap and give you a gift card as well as a donation receipt for your taxes. They use any money they make off the car to help at risk kids stay in school.
He had the car towed to his house and did some research eventually finding a place that came and got it from in front of his house and gave him $400.00. He was happy to see it go as he had already been pulled over on his way to get fast food one evening because the police were convinced that a hunk of junk like that could only be driven by a criminal. They even searched his car. What they found were a couple Winnie the Pooh stuffed toys that his stepdaughter had left in there before he stopped letting her ride with him because of all the broken glass inside.
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