Phony charity
This organization accepts donated cars and claims to help blind people. Several blind people complained to me stating there services are minimal.
If you check charity navigator on the web you will see they get a very low rating. Most money does not go to help blind clients; it goes to the owners.
When you call Heritage on the phone, they avoid telling you exactly what they do for blind people. My friend who is blind has been waiting months to find out what their services are. She had called
several times and is yet to get a satisfying answer.
After almost 6 months they finally mailed me my tax papers.I was also waiting for their free hotel offer.
Yes they sent it to me but now I have to pay $14 to validate it and then I have to $200 to make a hotel reservation.
They say that $200 is refundable but after what happened I do not trust them any longer.
bottom line is you are better off to sell your old car for very cheap instead of donating it.It was too much stress for me.
We wanted to do something good, so we called the "HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND" and donated our BMW 2001 to them. The car was in a good running condition, no body damages, clean interior, bottom line the car was in a good condition.
They came and picked up the car and told us they will send us the tax papers in a week. We donated our car on April 2013, today is September 2013, after 5 months they have still not mailed us the tax papers. Yesterday I received the registration renewal for the car so I emailed them asking what is going on and each time I email them they are telling me they have put the car for sale and they are waiting for the highest bid.
Anyway, in short I think I handed my car to bunch of fraud they operate under HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND. Be carful , do not give them donation, I don't know what happened to my car, they probably sold it for parts and pocketed the money.
We lived in Louisiana for a short while. When we returned to NY we decided to donate one of our cars since unlike LA, NY has mass transit & no real need for two cars. We called the Heritage for the Blind toll free # & after many questions, arranged to have the car picked up. We did everything that was required for legal "out of state" title transfer & release from liability. Two months passed & no official letter verifying our taxable donation. It's now 3 months since the car was picked up & we've yet to receive a legitimate IRS Taxable Deduction document or anything indicating when we will be receiving the advertised & promised "3-day Vacation Trip Voucher for two adults for anywhere in the continental U.S." Had we known that we were about to become victims of a scam, we would had rather given the car to a local auto-mechanic vocational training school. At least knowing for sure that kids would gain practical hands-on skills towards future job security would had made the donation worthwhile & emotionally gratifying. Next time we will contact the IRS Charitable Information Department directly for a legitimate & updated listing of registered 501 (c) 3 organizations. In the meantime we will be contacting the local fraud by deceptions branch of the FBI & filing a title transfer search with the State Dept. of Motor Vehicles- Registration Bureau to see whether or not a sale has taken place & if so, to whom the car was sold & for how...
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