"boredalways" (boredalway666)
06/24/2020 at 23:16 • Filed to: Of Happenings!, Car Donation, POS C240
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"boredalways" (boredalway666)
06/24/2020 at 23:16 • Filed to: Of Happenings!, Car Donation, POS C240 | 4
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Finally donated the POS C240. It was picked up early today. I thought I had a better photo of it, but it was a POS so screw it.
The biggest hang-up wa s the State of Indiana. Indiana has a weird way of assigning identification for companies, corporations, etc., when it comes to tax revenue. Long story short, my personal SSN is very similar to the state tax ID of a company with unpaid taxes (there are several hundred people that go through this same b.s.) . With Covid-19, it took almost 2 months to get everything in order for the state to remove a tax lien from the title.
Yes, it ran and drove but I had no desire to sell it. Mainly due to the fact that the very few that showed interest could wrench no better than me. One was a neighbor, and there was no way in hell I was going to deal with a disappointed neighbor, to put it mildly, for $500. The amount of work needed would be 3x what it’s worth (full brake job, trans flush and fill, broken rear coil springs...at least, 2 bent aluminum rims, 4 wheel alignment, new battery, scheduled service A...or was it B...or both?).
And before the “but s”* come out, I really wanted to donate it. It’s going to my local PBS/NPR station, so I’ll be able to write it off.
*of course, I can’t stop you
WilliamsSW
> boredalways
06/24/2020 at 23:30 |
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Yeah, BUT...
You gotta do what works for you. And it's a good cause.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> boredalways
06/24/2020 at 23:40 |
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That’s a great way to get rid of it, and as a frequent NPR listener and PBS watcher I thank you. I know what you mean when it comes to getting rid of stuff, especially to people you know. My issue is with computers. I wouldn’t mind giving them away, but I’ve found that if I know the recipient they seem to expect lifetime free technical support. Sadly I’d rather give machines to a perfect stranger than to someone I know for just this reason (but I have to admit that the last one that I gave away, to a friend who was looking for work and was tired of waiting for a computer at the library, hasn't come back to bite me in the ass. Yet...)
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boredalways
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/24/2020 at 23:46 |
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Yikes. I know that they aren’t ungrateful, but were these people expecting enough power to run Overwatch @ 120fps+ on a 60hz monitor?
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> boredalways
06/25/2020 at 00:03 |
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Some are, or so it seems. I remember selling a working monitor to a classmate nearly 30 years ago for next to nothing. I explicitly and repeatedly told him that the reason that he was getting it so cheap was because the power button didn’t work, and that he’d either have to unplug it or switch it off with an outlet strip. He was OK with that, or so he said . A few days later he came back wanting a refund because the power button didn’t work. WHAT DID I TELL YOU! No - he did not get a refund...
I also remember trying to donate a pile of slightly older (P2/P3) computers to Goodwill. This was back when the Pentium 4 was the current killer CPU. They asked if they were Pentium 4 systems. I told them that if they were Pentium 4s I wouldn’t be getting rid of them. They were perfectly usable systems but they didn’t want to pick them up. Their loss...