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LogDog75

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12. My local PBS station is the only one I'd donate a car to after I buy a new car

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #7)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:43 PM

Sep 28

There are a lot of charities I could donate a car to but, IMO, many of them don't provide the bulk of the money to the people they say they're serving but instead use the money to pay the charity executives very high salaries.

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Car donation scam alert [View all] LogDog75 Sep 28 OP

I wouldn't donate a dime to Kars-R-Us just because their ads are so horrendously irritating. Ocelot II Sep 28 #1

Oops I guess I was thinking of Kars4Kids! Ocelot II Sep 28 #13

I understand that the people that run that hunk of shit business are a piss soaked pack of MAGA fuckwads. SoFlaBro Sep 28 #2

I thought they were Jewish. Jews are not maga..in general BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 28 #6

Kars4Kids is a Jewish organization. They are not, according to Google, related to Kars-R-Us. Totally Tunsie Sep 28 #8

Oh!!! Sneaky..scammers picked a similar name to legitimate org BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 28 #10

No surprise, tho. That happens all the time. Totally Tunsie Sep 28 #11

What I don't understand is the slap on the hand monetary penalty Raven123 Sep 28 #3

I didn't donate to Kars-R-Us, but whatever they got for my 2004 PT Cruiser rsdsharp Sep 28 #4

I thought it was a Jewish charity? BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 28 #5

See #8 above Totally Tunsie Sep 28 #9

National Public Radio is the only one I'd consider. I know several who have donated to them. hlthe2b Sep 28 #7

My local PBS station is the only one I'd donate a car to after I buy a new car LogDog75 Sep 28 #12

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