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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
...but I've been told on good authority by someone I know affiliated with one of them that such charities are distorting the truth and that donated cars almost NEVER end up directly in the hands of needy people. They're either sold at auction (with the proceeds going into the charity's general operating budget - including administrative costs) or sold for scrap metal and crushed/destroyed (again, with the proceeds going into the charity's budget). At the end of the day the charity does benefit, but it's a bit disingenuous how a lot of them represent themselves... You're not "donating your car to help a needy person", you're donating your car so the charity can make some money off of it (less auction fees and other parties' cut).
This organization sounds like they were pretty up-front about the whole thing (were they?)
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POP,
The car will be sold. They were very upfront about percentages of the cars value that goes for admin versus direct support: 20/80. They said that the 20% includes the towing, fees, etc. unless the car sells for under $400.00.
The folks on the phone were very specific to year, type, model and mileage, options and condition.
The interesting thing is that they will show me where the car was sold, the buyer and the wholesale price paid.
As we all know, there is the magic leap of faith, pressing the send button that inevitably has to happen in these matters. It is funny that my BS Meter was set to stun on the first few phone calls, then set to kill with the tow folks being on time, communicating schedules, etc.
Tow guy called twice the day before, called the next day to confirm his arrival and was on the dot.
In the end, if BCS's make some money, I'm good.