I would be considered lower middle class, I make a little under 20 G a year, drive close to 90 mile round trip each day. The job is great most of the time, but when your dealing with persons with serious mental health issues and some with criminal issues it can be very stressful, more so because of the regulations we have to follow. I gotta admit I really enjoy working with the patients, ( i work in a state psychiatric hospital) Most are great people whom have been struck down by this horrible disease/illness. I gurantee people don't try to become mentally ill, and i gurantee its not a character flaw or weakness. Sorry about the preaching.

But getting to the point, of letting my rc's collect dust before selling them for next to nothing? 1. By selling them at a decent price, i'll be able to fund my next hobby.
2. Unless I would know the father was going to spend time helping the youg kid to learn how to tune the truck, I could nt do this.(several young kids in my community said they had duratrax rc trucks or buggies, they ran once and could not get them running, so they sit in a corner. These were st's or mts with the torque .12 or .15. As an adult it can be tricky tuning sometimes.

3. I d love to teach kids how to tune and work on rc trucks/cars, but everyone thinks the worse, they you might have alterier motives. I remember I took a kid under my supervision steelhead fishing, because his dad did not have as much interest as me and his son. We had great times fishing different streams/rivers, him learning to drive my car with a standard tranny. The kid turned out to be a fantastic fisherman, a great person and adult, and a awesome human being, society has to stop focusing on the worse.

In general those are my reasons for not selling my rc 's for nothing etc.

My moto is if you help someone you can really help them to be all they can be.