give them to a scrapper,  you get the good will of the donaters, you help the finances of the scrapper and you get rid of junk.


-----Original Message-----
From: Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE <urbanbikeproject@gmail.com>
To: The Think Tank <thethinktank@bikecollectives.org>
Sent: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 7:15 pm
Subject: [TheThinkTank] rejecting trash bikes

hey folks,

a moral or social dilemma: when your shop accepts donations of used bikes, but you're already filled to the gills with hundreds of bikes that may or may not ever get fixed up, how do you begin to turn away donations that are really not worth the space?  or do you?  just looking for some suggestions of how other shops have dealt with this issue.  it gets to the point where we don't have the time, space, or man-power to strip down all those         pieces-of-crap even to send to the scrap yard, but now that people know that we accept used bikes, it's hard to know how to say no.

thanks!

sarah


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Wilmington, DE 19802

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