On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Hal Duston <hald@kc.rr.com> wrote:
Regardless it is irrelevant, since nobody would be expecting to
receive a tax deduction for a charitable-donation when giving
things to the group.

However, a business might well give us things of value for the advertising value, like when a radio station has tickets to some event coming up they give to Caller #3.  The people putting on the event are not seeking a charitable deduction, but forego receiving any money for the tickets in exchange for the DJ talking about the event.