Yeah, e-Bay. I know, it exists and that's where most people go to get their stuff but I'm not like most people. I make minimum wage and don't even have a bank account, so there's no way I can use PayPal.
I've worked pretty close to minimum wage before, and that didn't stop me from having a bank account. You should probably get one, especially if you live in a remote location where there isn't much to buy locally.
Donating computers to services like this cuts severely into the supply of cheap, local machines that less-well-off hobbyists like myself strive to find. With more and more of these vintage and unique systems going to the crusher, the retrocomputing hobby will become exclusive to the upper class.
To be blunt, collecting things, especially things that tend to be large and require parts and maintenance, is a luxury. I'm sure some people have managed to maintain old computer collections on minimum wage, but it's not an entitlement. People who don't have much money and want a computer these days are going to Best Buy or Wal-Mart, not Goodwill, so it's not hard to understand why they are doing this. The idea of donating old computers to people who can't afford a new one used to be a huge thing, when computers were more expensive and standards weren't progressing quite as quickly, but that model doesn't work anymore, and these days giving an old computer to someone who isn't into them for their own sake is doing them a disservice. Goodwill is primarily in the business of helping the less fortunate, not helping hobbyists, so it is no surprise that they are getting the computers out of the way so they can focus on their mission.
