Re: Car Donation: What's the deal?

Calvin wrote:
<entropic3.14de...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why don't scrap/salvage yards pay an individual for cars?

Some do, some don't. When I needed to get rid of my wife's dead '85
Camry I called around to yards and got many different responses. Some
said they would give me cash if I could drive it in their gate. Some
said they would pick it up for free. Some said they would pick it up
when they got around to it, and oh-by-the-way, that'll be $100. I
finally found one yard that said he would tow it and give us $50 -
SOLD.

Even the ones that advertise on television that they will pay you for
your junker don't always pay. One that advertises "cash for your junker"
quite a bit on Chicago television wanted money to take my '83 Cadillac
years ago. This was a running car; I had to get rid of it fast because
it failed pollution, and the fascist tin gods who run that were going
to suspend my driver's license, my wife's, and the registration on our
other car for letting the one sit behind my house while I tried to fix it.

Having decided not to pay to junk a running car (with good glass all
around, lots of usable body parts, etc.), I managed to find a buyer
walking through the alley and got a few bucks for it.

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