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Volunteers of America Used Car Sales Program in Everett Shut Down

July 1, 2012

Everett, Everett Economy

Joe Rivers has sold used vehicles at the VOA lot in north Everett for the past 10 years

One of the first stories we shared on this blog was that of Jim Brown, director of the Volunteers of America vehicle donation program in Everett. Jim has been with VOA for 27 years and started the vehicle donation program in 1995. In addition to accepting donations of used cars, the Everett program went through the donated vehicles, made sure they were safe and sold them at their own lot on Broadway near Everett Community College in Everett. Saturday afternoon I drove by and saw all the cars were off the lot. Jim was there with two other long time employees and told me the VOA was shutting down the vehicle sales operation and outsourcing the donation program out-of-state. Sadly, some local people are losing jobs and Everett is losing a car lot where folks could get a decent used car at an affordable price.

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5 Responses to “Volunteers of America Used Car Sales Program in Everett Shut Down”

  1. lisa heinz Says:
    December 14, 2012 at 12:24 PM

    Stupid move! You were serving a segment of clients in need of sffordable trsnsportstion.

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  2. grateful for the info Says:
    January 8, 2013 at 3:55 PM

    Thanks for providing this report. I used to cruise the online inventory, and the VOA website has been completely revamped, and no way to find used cars to buy on the current website (to which you are directed when you use the old URL for the Everett lot). The “live chat” person there, when I asked, referred me to the FAQ page of the new website. The new website just solicits, it does not provide any information about how to buy the vehicles which had been donated. Shame on VOA.

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  3. Anonymous Says:
    January 27, 2013 at 2:59 PM

    I can’t understand why such a good program can shut down like this. This program helped a lot of people.

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    • MELANIE Says:
      March 20, 2013 at 6:39 AM

      WHERE DOES ALL THE MONEY GO FROM THE DOANATED CARS, NO WEBSITES TO SHOW INVENTORY OF CARS FOR SALE, SHAME AGAIN ON VOA SOUNDS LIKE A BIG RIP OFF SCAM

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  4. Anonymous Says:
    June 12, 2013 at 1:31 AM

    This program was an absolute life saver for the region. Shame on VOAWW for such mismanagement. I hope that someday Jim, Joe and all the others can restart the used car donation & sales program.

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