Selling a mac pro through apple's reuse and recycle program?

nuno

I want to sell my 3 year old mac pro as i don't need the power any more (need to downside to a mac mini ). I have just got what I consider to be a very fair quote from Apple's own reuse and recycle program - £939

Has anyone ever gone with this as a method of selling? I was looking for between £900-1000 for a private sale but this seems like a hassle free way to get rid and still get a very fair price. I don't have all the original polystyrene (but do have the box) - so they'd charge me £10 for packaging materials (so i get £939 rather than £949) but this still seems pretty fair as eBay fees would come to way over that!

Is eBay/Gumtree a better place to sell as I don't have proper packaging and a local pickup sale would be better and i might get the £1000 asking price? I'm thinking for sheer ease and convenience to go with this Apple programme and be done with it.

Hammyman

I'd just sell it through the scheme. You'll need to sell for more than £1k on Ebay to walk away with the same money and you've got all the aggro that selling on Ebay entails. Packaging is cheap - I'd just stuff the box full of bubblewrap.

fatflatfly

I'm selling my power pc G5 with the reuse program at the moment and not really happy with the time it takes for them to process everything, also the fact that they have said today that I have to accept new lower quote or pay to have item shipped back to me as they are saying casing is broken which is metal so I don't understand what's broken.
The computer was shipped to Germany so they say but it got delivered to an address in the UK when I sent it.Plus all email replies are from uk too.

Hammyman

OH MY GOD. Either something is wrong or they're taking the michael - £278 for my 14 month old Macbook Pro...