Best Places to sell a Mac Pro?

MrJester

So I'm trying to sell my Mac Pro. It's on gumtree and craigslist. I've had one reply via gumtree so far, I've now paid to have it featured to try and increase interest.

It's a pretty high value item, as I am looking for around £3000 for it (£4k brand new) so I was thinking surely the best way to sell it would be to find a Mac community forum which would allow me to list it, go direct to someone who would be interested. But haven't been able to find any yet..

Any ideas?

Mr_Toad

To be honest I'd have thought Gumtree was entirely the wrong place to advertise it. People use Gumtree looking for a bargain, not a high end specialist machine.

I'd have thought you'd be better identifying a suitable Mac community, as you said, but have no idea how to do that.

I've been a Mac user for years and never considered a Pro. Even for video and photo production I haven't felt the need.

There must be people out there setting up businesses that require such a machine but can't yet justify the cost of a new one.

Finding them is the tricky part.

MrJester

Mr_Toad wrote: »

To be honest I'd have thought Gumtree was entirely the wrong place to advertise it. People use Gumtree looking for a bargain, not a high end specialist machine.

I'd have thought you'd be better identifying a suitable Mac community, as you said, but have no idea how to do that.

I've been a Mac user for years and never considered a Pro. Even for video and photo production I haven't felt the need.

There must be people out there setting up businesses that require such a machine but can't yet justify the cost of a new one.

Finding them is the tricky part.

Yup. It's a beast but I'm not making enough use of it to justify keeping it when I can pay off a lot of debts and just buy the new iMac.

InsideInsurance

Assuming "Apple Mac Pro Late 2013 3.7GHz Intel Xeon Quad-Core E5 16GB RAM 512GB SSD Dual D700 6GB £3200 ONO" is yours listing on Gumtree then I would argue your price is fairly high to be honest unless you are willing for a very long wait

Anyone who knows a university student, or knows their way around Apple's site, can buy the exact same machine brand new for £3,039.60 with the standard student discount plus also possibly cashback from Quidco.

Its an expensive machine and so somewhat of a risk to buy and so people are going to want a reasonable discount.

System

Hi

In a MAC magazine will be companies who trade in used apple kit.

like

macuser
macformat
macworld

possibly in a newsagents, but if not try and use their website for a backissue or similar.

almillar

eBay will have a big audience if you're willing to ship, and either set the start price, or a reserve, at the least you'll let it go for, or set a Buy it Now price. It'll be listed, and relist, for free. It's a big expensive computer, so your audience isn't huge, so it's always gonna be a slow sell.

mogwai

eBay - i just sold mine (though it wasn't £3k - didn't even know there were macs for that price and I've been using macs for donkeys year!)

InsideInsurance

mogwai wrote: »

eBay - i just sold mine (though it wasn't £3k - didn't even know there were macs for that price and I've been using macs for donkeys year!)

Mac Pro not MacBook Pro

For the Mac Pro the CPU upgrade to the top level is £2,800 just for the chip, without a screen it goes up to £7,779. Add 2 4k screens, keyboard, mouse etc and you are over £14,000

Its very much made for the 3d modelling, animation and movie creator market

Moneymaker

The simple answer to "Best Places to sell a Mac Pro?" is "London and New York" because they are large population centres.

Still need more help? OK, reduce your price to £2995 to get below the magic three grand. Now write an essay explaining how useful it is; what a great computer; what you used it for; what others might use it for; how much you are gonna miss it; list the extras that you are giving away; provide lots of shiny photos from all angles; list all its ports and features, in simple language, for the sake of any rich kid who doesn't understand technical jargon but might just be tempted to buy it as a talking point for his bedroom.

Now you need to reach prospective buyers who actually need a powerful Mac. First, put your essay and pictures on Facebook and ask your friends to "share". You'd be amazed how quickly word will spread - especially if you also make a silly movie about it and upload to You-Tube. If you are skilled at making movies, make one about a cute animal (e.g. kitten) and include that; "THIS is what YOU can do if you buy my computer". if it's good, it might go viral and take your advert with it. Heck, you might even get a job offer from Pixar!

Marketing is a skill. Work on it and you can sell anything.