I never saw a A1200 in any of the major stores in South Florida in that time period. A500, A600, but no A1200s.
Well, around Michigan, no major stores in the US had Commodore / Amiga gear, past 1990, period. I remember Montgomery Wards and Sears briefly carrying the Amiga 500, but that was over pretty quickly.
But every single computer shop in SE Michigan that carried any Commodore equipment had the A1200 and CD32 in stock and a display model front and center after they came out. (Some would also have a single A4000 in stock, but most were on a per-order basis). And yeah, most shops that carried Commodore gear were on the sharp decline or gone within the year of the bankruptcy. But they definitely had the gear and were moving it around here before then.
As for the banks forcing Commodore out... I don't really buy it. Commodore management had been cooking the books for years prior. The financial deception was finally called. The business as it stood didn't terribly matter to the financial facts.
