Anybody ever donate computers?

[gtsukada]

instead of selling the rest of my junk on ebay i'm thinking about donating a working computer to charity. i was curious if anybody could recommend charitys that will pickup the pc directly from my house and use them as oppsed to selling them. maybe we can make this an AT thing, because i have alot of parts, but i'm still missing certain pieces for a complete computer. anyways let me know what you think of this ATOT.

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[BatmanNate]

If by donate you mean leave on a doorstep during the night, ring, and run, then yes.

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
If by donate you mean leave on a doorstep during the night, ring, and run, then yes.

hahahaha
thats such a good idea

 

[gtsukada]

hahah that's option number 2

 

[DaveSimmons]

Random Frankenstein computers with no instructions, warranty or real brand name have almost zero resale value so you're not helping someone like Goodwill or others like them that sell your donations to raise funds.

If there is some small, local charity that you know the people at, and where you'd be willing to provide follow-up support, then your donation could do some good.

Otherwise use eBay and FS/FT forum to keep your junk out of a landfill.

 

[anno]

we've given computers and miscellaneous hardware to the housing authority.. they take software donations too.. old educational stuff especially.. they put together whatever they can from what they get and place computers in homes of school children that live in their housing. I don't think they pick up though , have to take them to them.

anno

 

[anxi80]

i donate mine to a local church charity. they come over, pick it up, and then leave me a receipt that i fill out for claiming a donation for my taxes. even let me fill in the amount of what i think it was worth.

 

[gtsukada]

i'd throw in a motherboard capable of running a celly or p3, 256 megs of ram, soundcard, and a decent tower. if i had obsolete crap i would just dump it, but i thought i might actually do some good for people who actually need a computer.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: gtsukada
i'd throw in a motherboard capable of running a celly or p3, 256 megs of ram, soundcard, and a decent tower. if i had obsolete crap i would just dump it, but i thought i might actually do some good for people who actually need a computer.

Donating is a great idea, I'm just pointing out that you need to donate to the right chairty that can actually make good use of it instead of having to pay to dump it themselves.

Most of the charities that pick up need items that they can sell themselves, they aren't set up to sell a unique computer.

 

[goblue420]

haha they prolly dont want it

 

[unclebud]

regardless of what's decided, wipe the hd thoroughly though -- is killdisk the app that does it?
good luck, hth