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08-14-2010, 11:43 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Charities Not Accepting Used Items?
I'm hoping someone can enlighten me on this one... We recently updated our kitchen and my wife wanted all stainless steel appliances. After we bought all of the new stuff, we had a like-new, 8 yr old set of appliances: Electric Oven, Refrigerator, Microwave...
I could have sold them for maybe a couple hundred dollars, but I thought it would be nice to donate them. Called up Habitat for Humanity, Goodwill, Salvation Army and NONE of them would take the items, said they only accept new appliances. WTF? Am I missing something? I understand why they wouldn't want some broken down item that they would have to spend money on to get working or to recycle, but for things that are in perfectly good condition? Seems completely counterintuitive/wasteful to me. I've looked online and I can't find any good reason for this. Anyone involved with a charity and care to explain?
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