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Carmine · #1 10-26-2010, 02:27 PM

I'm cut/pasting from Craigslist because although the ad is still up, when I tried to email, I got this message:

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Sorry, the craigslist email address you tried to contact ([email protected]) belongs to an ad that is no longer active on the site.

So here is (was) the ad:

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1966 Zenith tv from Grandmother's house. In working condition. Can still be used with cable box. Need gone before trash day on wed. Please leave a number you can be reached at in your response. Thanks!

I really didn't need/want it, but was going to save it from the dumpster. Hope somebody here got it.

Adam · #2 10-26-2010, 03:02 PM

It wasn't me.

classicradios · #3 10-29-2010, 05:01 PM

I saved the set, Didn't want to see it go to the landfill. I don't need/want it either. Free to anyone who wants to come get it out of my garage in Troy, MI.
Jim

classicradios · #4 11-01-2010, 05:22 PM

I've tried to donate this set to 3 re-sale shops, goodwill, salvation army and habitat resale but get the same responses " No consoles, No TV's with knobs, Nothing more than 10 years old, no vintage tv's" most places won't even take the time to look at it, could be a rare 50's color set and they would turn it away.

Carmine · #5 11-02-2010, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by classicradios

I've tried to donate this set to 3 re-sale shops, goodwill, salvation army and habitat resale but get the same responses " No consoles, No TV's with knobs, Nothing more than 10 years old, no vintage tv's" most places won't even take the time to look at it, could be a rare 50's color set and they would turn it away.

You seriously thought a re-sale place like Salvation Army would take that set?

If you're still planning to trash it, I'll try to take it.

Gerardn3 · #6 11-02-2010, 11:39 PM

Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity here both take vintage TVs, even console TVs and radios. Mostly newer/junkier stuff than I'm interested in, but there have been a few nice vintage items, like my precious little Trinitron. Goodwill, however, recently stopped accepting most vintage TVs, though it's kind of unclear what exactly breaks the rules. I think they generally won't accept anything knob-tuned because it's not "cable ready". That just seems ridiculous to me, since they always have at least 3 VCRs on the shelf for $5 that would make any vintage TV cable ready. They always sold (and continue to sell) very quickly at all those places, so I don't understand why they'd stop taking them.

classicradios · #7 11-03-2010, 09:00 AM

A couple of nice gentleman picked up the set yesterday and drove away with it.