Good place to sell an expensive laptop?

Stupefied

eBay will only let me list £650 :-(

cookie365

In any event nobody is going to pay that kind of money cash on collection.

There may be a genuine reason for selling in this case, and I've no reason to doubt what the OP says is true, but it screams scam. Which means few people will be interested, and the price you can get plummets accordingly.

You need to sell to a friend or a friend of a friend.

Marvqn1

cookie365 wrote: »

In any event nobody is going to pay that kind of money cash on collection.

There may be a genuine reason for selling in this case, and I've no reason to doubt what the OP says is true, but it screams scam. Which means few people will be interested, and the price you can get plummets accordingly.

You need to sell to a friend or a friend of a friend.

I don't see why it screams scam, especially as the seller has a receipt. People sell higher end electronics that they don't need.

cookie365

Marvqn1 wrote: »

I don't see why it screams scam, especially as the seller has a receipt. People sell higher end electronics that they don't need.

But generally speaking not after a month at a huge discount.

If I saw this advertised on ebay I'd assume that the OP was a burglar who'd nicked bagfuls of unwrapped Christmas presents.

Stupefied

cookie365 wrote: »

But generally speaking not after a month at a huge discount.

If I saw this advertised on ebay I'd assume that the OP was a burglar who'd nicked bagfuls of unwrapped Christmas presents.

If it was me I'd ask to see a receipt, and then when I came round to collect it the burglar/seller could log in to HP's website and show that it had his name and address on.

£1,900 isn't that much for a laptop. I know most people are happy with a 300 quid one, but my last one cost £1,249, and that was five years ago. It's about the going rate for a gaming laptop with powerful graphics card.

All I was really after here was the off chance that one of the techies on here knew of a nearly new laptop vendor who would take it off my hands, rather than the 'we buy an laptop' guys who are offering me 200 for it. But hey, getting called a burglar/scammer on Christmas/Boxing day is fun too. :money:

prowla

As an alternative you could keep the laptop and get a cheap portable to carry about.

cookie365

Stupefied wrote: »

If it was me I'd ask to see a receipt, and then when I came round to collect it the burglar/seller could log in to HP's website and show that it had his name and address on.

£1,900 isn't that much for a laptop. I know most people are happy with a 300 quid one, but my last one cost £1,249, and that was five years ago. It's about the going rate for a gaming laptop with powerful graphics card.

All I was really after here was the off chance that one of the techies on here knew of a nearly new laptop vendor who would take it off my hands, rather than the 'we buy an laptop' guys who are offering me 200 for it. But hey, getting called a burglar/scammer on Christmas/Boxing day is fun too. :money:

I'm not calling you a burglar. I'm pointing out that the way you've approached things means you're likely to end up selling your laptop using the same methods that a burglar would. Which will cause most people to have second thoughts about the whole thing.

I thought that was obvious, but evidently not.

Robisere

knightstyle wrote: »

I think HP will refund the card it was paid from. So if the opp wants the money they need to sell it themselves.
Try local Facebook selling group, cash on collection.

Agree. You would have someone local and they could come to you, preferably with ID. But you will have to be patient and ignore the "...Will you take £XXX, mate?" or the " ...what's your best price mate?"

That's what I got, recently advertising an expensive two items locally. I put NO OFFERS in block cap's and still the chancers tried their luck. Eventually I sold both items for what I considered were good prices, to 2 local buyers, one of which thanked me on FB, the other in the street. I asked for ID: some 'potentials' took that as an insult, but the 2 genuine buyers saw my point.

onomatopoeia99

Stupefied wrote: »

But hey, getting called a burglar/scammer on Christmas/Boxing day is fun too. :money:

Par for the course on here - ask for advice, get your character and motives questioned rather than any actual useful advice. Normally it happens on the relationships board rather than this one though.