part off a 2009 laptop or sell it whole?

londonTiger

I have an asus ul30a laptop, it's very old (2009 model). It was a low power laptop and built to last 9 hours on battery. However it's so old that the battry would give about 30 minutes before it shuts down.

I had to replace it because it was starting to get slow now, I put up with it for a very long time, and boy after getting my hands on a more recent 2014 laptop it shows how slow it was.

The screen bezel is all smashed up, it was made from really cheap parts so I think I'll be lucky to get £70 for it.

Thinking of parting it out like you would do a car,

Charger £15
screen £30
Keyboard £10
RAM £15
motherboard £20
Lid £15
and the rest of the small parts (I see hinges, hard drive covers and stuff listen on ebay for £50£10).

Anyone tried doing this with old laptops, has it been profitable compared to selling the whole laptop one piece.

Browntoa

Ive always got more for parts

If the screen is ok apart form the bezel then remove the bezel , leave the hinges on and sell it like that

kwikbreaks

londonTiger wrote: »

The screen bezel is all smashed up, it was made from really cheap parts so I think I'll be lucky to get £70 for it.

If it's as old and battered as you say I wouldn't bid 70p for it but there is a mug born every minute so who knows what it might fetch. I do think £70 may be optimistic though.