just for fun I searched for some of the usual suspects from the past
(2N3553, 2N3866, 2N4427, MRF237, 2N5109, 2SC799, etc) on Ebay and
found almost nothing to be had.

Ebay Germany
http://listings.ebay.de/pool2/plisti.../index.html?fr
om=R4 has a large section with electronics components (much larger dan E-bay
UK for example) Payment may be awkward, as the common way is bank transfer.

Wim

Wim