Wanted: Free home for "Orphaned" Amigas and hardware

[smile711]

Hello,
 
We were once a thriving Amiga Users Group here in the United States until about 6 years ago when things just sort of died down.   Now we have several Amiga computers, and numerous hardware items + software, that are sitting in storage.  They were recently checked out, and everything seems to work.
 
Do you know of any organization or individual that can find homes for these computer systems?   We are willing to donate ALL the items I have listed below.  These came from our club members, and were all well cared for:
 
A1200  (1) (club machine)
A2000 basic (1), with small hard drive, keyboard, mouse
A500  (2) all with expanded memory, mice
A1000: (1) with 2 mb expansion sidecar

Amiga and Commodore monitors (3)--no broken doors, etc., picture looks fine
 
All the hardware,  computers, and monitors work fine.   We even have a bunch of software, external floppy drives, and a nice scanner to throw in.   If you believe you can help us put these working items to a good use, please let us know.  We seriously don't want to see these go into our landfill.   If you know of a way we can find homes for these Amiga computers, please contact us.  We will provide you with more details on the number/model of items we have left.  

Again, we don't want to sell them; we'd like to offer them as gifts to someone that can enjoy them a bit longer.  All we ask in return is for you to cover the cost of shipping the items to your location.  If some of the items prove to be especially useful, you may consider a small donation to our group to cover our storage costs.  And please don't corrupt our spirit of giving by turning around and selling them for your own gain.  

Thank you for your continued support of a wonderful platform.

[smile711]

Hello,

No, this is NOT a joke;  

This is to all of the nice folks that have replied to our request to find homes for several Amiga computers, etc.

I have been away from my computer for the past three and a half days due to a family illness and apologize for the delay.  

I'll respond to you all after I confer with our other club members once we can read all the e-mails and make some decisions.  Your generous and LARGE number of responses (over 12!) has been wonderful, and somewhat overwhelming.  

As a courtesy, I'll get some Amiga friends to help me remove the covers from the Amigas and double check the motherboards for any battery leakage (one person kindly pointed out), and any other issues to make sure everything is shipshape, powers up, etc., and will not be a disappointment to anyone.  It's a bit more of a task than I can handle alone.  Please forgive us if the holidays with vacations, company, etc. may delay this somewhat.  One of my family members just mentioned that it might be wise to wait till the first of next year to try and ship anything, anyway due to the holiday rush.

Thanks again for your replies.  I've saved all your messages and WILL get back to you all.  If by chance I miss anyone once things get rolling---and you see me post details about the estimated shipping costs, the inventory of the Amigas, monitors, and hardware, etc., by all means, let us know.  

At this point I haven't found anyone from our club willing to try and sell them on ebay (I have no experience in this area), so we'll see if that is worth pursuing---thanks for the tips and ideas regarding charitable giving, etc.!