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Places to try donations?

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:46 AM
The manufacturers don't normally privide donated items for one VERY good reason: If they did it for one group, they would be expected to do it for everyone. It would definitely be a no-win situation for them.

You may have better success with your local dealer, especially if you have one who is actually doing fairly well.
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Posted by 3railguy on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 7:03 PM
I would try putting out a discrete letter to the dealers who show up at your shows asking if they have anything to donate. One might have a PS-1 engine or an early 90's Lionel diesel they can't get rid of..
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:49 PM
Of course im not looking for fancy stuff, just somethings to run at shows
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Posted by daan on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:30 PM
What about local hobby shops? Mostly a rather big sized train shop usually have some secondhand stuff or paid-for-but-never-collected things, expaired warranty things etc.
Don't ask for the best, but some small laying around things could be a possibility.
Ask before they have to invetorize their stock for tax and fire-insurance and they could be very helpfull.
(in holland shops have to inventorize their stock once a year and pay tax for the value it represents. Fire-insurance also uses that to calculate their insurancecosts and most shops try to get rid of a lot of things before that..)
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Places to try donations?
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:01 PM
I have tried, Lionel, Kline, MTH for donations of things to run at my ckub, the TAMR, do you have any ideas?

Thanks

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