How to Donate a Car to a Charity Online
Making a car donation online is very simple. It may sound complicated because you are not dealing with someone face to face but online car donations are not only simple they are also safe. There are two main ways of making a car donation online, filling out a form or calling a toll-free number.
Some websites have forms that you can complete and mail directly over the internet. All the necessary information about the car and the owner are filled out and the charity will contact you after receiving your form.
If you don’t want to fill out the form, you can always call the toll-free number. You will either be speaking directly with the charity of your choice or with a company handling the donations on behalf of the charity. In either case, all necessary information will be exchanged over the phone as well as the setting up of a date to pick up your vehicle.
There are many advantages to donating your car online compared to an in-person transaction. They include:
- it saves you time
- it can be done from the comfort of your own home
- most of the paperwork is handled by the charity
- your car is picked up by a towing company (free of charge) instead of you bringing it to wherever the charity is located (especially useful if your car is not in proper working condition)
- you avoid the hassles of people coming to your home to see the car
- you avoid the hassles of people calling the house for information regarding your car
- it saves you money by not putting an ad in the newspaper
- most charities will even take cars that are not running, so you save money on repairs
Of course, there are a few disadvantages to online donations but they do not outweigh the advantages. Some disadvantages include:
- some people are skeptical about the money from their donation actually going towards their intended worthy cause
- some charities are fronts for people running scams