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

Sorry, the craigslist email address you tried to contact ([email protected]) belongs to an ad that is no longer active on the site.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

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!


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

It wasn't me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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