Lot's of hesitation on donating high end parts to bike co-ops for the concern of staff skimming. Ask what they do with such donations when you're about to move your stash. One of the coolest things I've come across is a co-op that uses such donations to propel their work with in-need and under served cycling communities by selling those premier donated parts on eBay to fund things they need most. A resold SON generator hub could fund a pile of Alivio RDs or cable and housing sets. I have been looking at eBay listings for bike parts seeking the co-op offerings for this reason.
Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 2:46:10 PM UTC-4 Jay Lonner wrote: > Over the years I have amassed a sizable stash of really nice components > that I no longer need - Paul brakes and levers, Nitto stems and handlebars, > XTR M900 wheelset, SON dynohub, etc. It's all valuable on the open market, > but Riv's BRP has got me thinking about how best to donate it for maximal > benefit. My fear is that if I just dropped it all off at my local bike > co-op the best stuff will be skimmed by the staff. I've thought of reaching > out to Riv directly to see if they could repurpose it for the BRP, but that > potentially creates issues they'd rather avoid (liability, not wanting to > become a used parts dumping ground, etc.). So I thought I'd poll the nice > folks here for some ideas on how to Marie Kondo my parts bin while serving > the interests of social justice. It may be that the best move will be to > take a page from Peter Singer and sell the stuff outright and then donate > the proceeds - in that case stay tuned, since I'll probably list it all > here first. > > Jay Lonner > Bellingham, WA > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/183d1f17-d2da-4db4-97da-27a8d2115a0en%40googlegroups.com.
