There are lots of people out there who have old Commodore/Amiga hardware that they consider "junk" which is boxed up in their closets or basements. They dont know or care that these things are worth money to some people and can be sold on ebay. To them, it is just junk. I have gotten some good Commodore 64 equipment from people like that... they are happy to give it away free to anyone who will come and take it. They consider it a service that you will save them the trouble of taking the stuff to a recycler or dump.
Problem is finding these people.
I had good luck emailing some local computer user groups and saying "Hi if any members of your group have old junk computers from the 1980s or early 1990s I will happily come and take the junk away for free." I never got any Amiga stuff that way but I've gotten tons of C64/128 stuff. I haven't tried it that many times, so Im sure with more effort I could get good Amiga stuff too.
Garage sales and thrift shops also sometimes have good deals on vintage machines... but some places like Salvation Army have recently begun policies of rejecting any computers over 5 years old as being "unsellable junk"...
