Are there any costs associated with donating PCs?
A. Yes, there are two costs for PC Donors – PC refurbishment costs and Digital Pipeline Registration Fees. PC refurbishment costs: Organisations that donate their own PCs to DP Deployment Agents are expected to cover the Deployment Agent’s costs of arranging for PCs to be collected from the Donor’s premises and refurbished to Digital Pipeline standards before they are delivered to Beneficiaries. These costs vary depending on which DP Deployment Agent handles your PC donation (Digital Pipeline doesn’t determine these costs) but as a rough guideline, you shouldn’t expect to pay more than about £30 per PC that you donate to cover these costs and in some cases you may pay less than this. Digital Pipeline Registration Fees: PC donors pay a fee of £10 (transferred to Digital Pipeline by the Deployment Agent) for each donated PC that is registered with Digital Pipeline. This is set aside in Digital Pipeline’s Recycling Fund, providing funds for recycling PCs that are no longer useful from are
