[adastra22]

And that independent assessor will ask you “sale or insurance?” They are in on the scam.

[ghaff]

In my case it was just a letter from the 501(c)(3) organization acknowledging the donation. I can't speak to how the valuation was done.

[Suppafly]

Goodwill or whoever has their own guidelines for how much they value stuff, presumably somewhat related to what they can sell it for.

[adastra22]

Goodwill's system is that they give you pre-signed receipt and you fill in whatever you like.

[Suppafly]

That's not how it's supposed to work, but I won't claim that some of them don't do that.