Trade Laptop for Cash

TomB_88

I want to trade in my old laptop and was just wondering if anyone knew anywhere where i can get a fiar amount of cash for it?

motorguy

very few places will accept a trade in on a laptop as the margin on a new laptop is so slim.

Try advertising it on gumtree or on ebay.

Be aware that 'old' laptops make next to nothing these days, so if its not something made in the last 3 years or so dont expect much

Browntoa

the cashconvertor/cashgenerator stores will buy them but don't expect top prices

bignred05

I've just got a quote off Weebuy for 2 laptops
1 x Sony (fairly old but still working fine) was offered £50, also went to my local cash converters, they also offered me £50 (which I took)

had another latop to sell as well, a Dell Inspiron 6400, was offered £65 by both Weebuy and local cash converters, decieded to try and sell it privatly in work, advertised it for £120, expecting £100, well had people snapping me hand off for it, I'm getting £120, well pleased

Kalahary

HP are running a trade-in plan at the moment but only when you buy selected new HP laptops. Of course this is only of use to you if you want to buy from HP, but other businesses might be doing something similar.

joeypesci

Sounds good. Anyone selling on laptops should securely wipe the drives really, so people can't recover old personal documents. If not possible because you don't want to reinstall the OS, then use programs like Fileshredder to securely wipe your personal files as you delete them in it and then CCleaner (free) to securely wipe the free space which should make any old files deleted ages ago unrecoverable.