Recycle your old laptop?

jiirtih

Hi everyone,

I recently 'sold' my old mobile phone to Mazuma and got £112 for it. Really chuffed. But it made me wonder if theres anything similar to recycle your old laptop? I have one, which is probably not in good enough condition to sell (unless for spares - a bit slow and scratched etc) ... has anyone heard of a scheme like this?

Thanks

pitkin2020

its called Ebay lol

boliston

jiirtih wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I recently 'sold' my old mobile phone to Mazuma and got £112 for it. Really chuffed. But it made me wonder if theres anything similar to recycle your old laptop? I have one, which is probably not in good enough condition to sell (unless for spares - a bit slow and scratched etc) ... has anyone heard of a scheme like this?

Thanks

An old laptop will normally only fetch a tiny fraction of what was originally paid so it's best to weigh this up against the fact that it's also a good idea to keep the old laptop just in case something goes wrong with the new laptop, as you then at least are not left with no laptop at all.

jiirtih

Thanks for the informative reply. As I said in the original post, it's not really in good enough condition to sell, which is why i wondered if there is anything like a 'recycle your old laptop' scheme similar to those 'sell your old phone' schemes offered by companies such as Mazuma and Envirofone.

pitkin2020

People will still buy it on ebay for parts, if they have the same model and need bits its far cheaper for them to buy one of ebay that maybe has the parts than buy a new part for an old laptop.

As for websites for recycling, I don't know of any but even if they worked on the same principle of the phone websites, your going to get very little for it.

GlisGlis

A quick Google found a company called Laptop Recycling Ltd (can't post links as I'm officially a "noob" due to all info being lost...), and I'm currently trying to dig around to see if anyone has used them. My old laptop has far too much personality (and not in any good way) to otherwise clean up and sell, so this seems like a good option, since I wouldn't have otherwise got any return on it whatsoever.

I'll post back if I find anything else out about them.

dazzer21

jiirtih wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I recently 'sold' my old mobile phone to Mazuma and got £112 for it. Really chuffed. But it made me wonder if theres anything similar to recycle your old laptop? I have one, which is probably not in good enough condition to sell (unless for spares - a bit slow and scratched etc) ... has anyone heard of a scheme like this?

Thanks

What sort of phone did you get £112 for?!

japstyle

I have had positive experiences with cex, best to search for them. They will buy most electronic items, pc parts, all games, dvds, cds, phones, at reasonable prices. You can get more for your item if you are prepared to receive a voucher to spend in stores/online. I have collected up a couple of old phones, and my husband doesnt like his latest one so we are sending them all in to exchange for one he does want.

kai_lani

GlisGlis wrote: »

A quick Google found a company called Laptop Recycling Ltd (can't post links as I'm officially a "noob" due to all info being lost...), and I'm currently trying to dig around to see if anyone has used them. My old laptop has far too much personality (and not in any good way) to otherwise clean up and sell, so this seems like a good option, since I wouldn't have otherwise got any return on it whatsoever.

I'll post back if I find anything else out about them.

I've used these for a 4year old advent laptop. They paid £25 for it, which is not bad when you consider it's cost/recycle value to the actual cost/recycle value of a similar aged mobile phone. Paid quickly and communications over email were very efficient.

HTH

babyfreckles

I would be one to vote for the Ebay option - I had two broken laptops (One just wouldnt turn on, and the other turned on but kept turning itself off) both in crappy conditions and they both sold for over £160. It may look in crappy condition and may be slow, but in the right hands, some of the parts inside of the laptop are well worth paying the money for!

ajdj

Be very careful if you have any personal data on it! There are sophisticated gangs that work overseas looking through old hard drives for personal info they can sell on or use for identity fraud. At the very least remove your hard drive first if you going to try ebay/cex etc. Personally, if its an old laptop only good for parts I wouldn't take the risk!