Frequently Asked Questions
Questions from Donors
Q: How do I donate or dispose of my equipment?
You may list your offering
here,
it will be posted
here,
and a nonprofit participant will contact you
if you have something they need or want.
Q: What sort of items do you accept?
You may offer to donate anything you feel would be useful, only please describe your
offering accurately and truthfully. List anything reusable you would like liquidate or
remove from storage, including obsolete computers, educational and office supplies,
equipment and furnishings. Some organizations will collect used cellphones, printer
cartridges, and other redeemable items. We serve a variety of growing nonprofit
groups who often have a multitude of needs.
Q: Where are you located and do you pickup?
Recycles.Org is a network of individual, independent, and unaffiliated nonprofit
organizations linked together through this website. When you offer to donate equipment, if
what you have to offer is useful to one of our participants, you will be contacted by them
through our system. Upon receiving a request, you will be supplied with complete location
and contact information for the participating organization. We are an exchange
network, comprised of hundreds of participating nonprofit organizations with
locations throughout the world. Your offer is presented to our participants in a structured
and confidential manner, making the process of giving easy, convenient, and secure.
Q: How are donated computers used?
Each nonprofit organization contacting you will list their organizational goals and
objectives. You are provided with complete contact information each time a request is made.
If you decide to give to a particular group, strike up an email dialogue with them, and ask
them directly about your concerns. Within each request, a telephone number will be included
if you would prefer to make voice contact.
Q: Is my contact information protected from spam or abuse?
Yes. Requests will be forwarded to you from participating organizations through this
website. You may ignore or respond to any request at your own discretion. Your contact
information will never be revealed by us to anyone and will remain confidential. To stop
receiving requests, simply cancel your offer at anytime.
Q: How do I change or cancel my offer once submitted?
Immediately upon submitting your offer the information is distributed to our participants,
therefore you must cancel your original offer and submit your offer again. There is a
direct link to cancel your offer on every email we send to you. Upon cancelling any
offer, all related requests for that particular offer will immediately cease.
Q: Do you assess a value for tax purposes?
With certain exceptions, nonprofits are instructed not to place a value on donated
goods. The donor is responsible for setting the value of a gift, which may be
based on fair market value. Businesses may have already expensed items and will
therefore have no deduction beside shipping costs.
Q: Do you scrub, wipe, or clean hard drives?
You must make arrangements with the nonprofit group with whom you choose to donate, or do
the job yourself. Sensitive data should never leave your hands without legal assurance of
destruction.
To do the job yourself, you will find several free software downloads listed in this
Google Directory which will guide you through the process.
Q: I have a another question and want to know more.
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