Old laptop value

Aos

Hi
A charity has asked me to look through some cupboards with a view to clearing out old pcs and tech and possibly raising some money on ebay. There are a number of old laptops and I am struggling to value them. They are Dell Inspirion D520 Celeron M with a range of RAM from 500Mb to 2Gb. Windows xp and office (2007 I think), about 160Gb hard drives. I guess they are about 2007 vintage. All in working order, i.e.boot up ok.
There are similar, slightly better speced versions on ebay ranging from £40 to £90. However I do not know how long these have been on and think it may be people seeing if they can sell something overpriced. Various websites that value old laptops won't even give me a price.
Anybody any ideas how much they might be worth or where to sell, other than ebay?
Thanks

ToxicWomble

Not worth anything imo 

jonnygee2

I guess they are about 2007 vintage

I like the optimism! But indeed you will be lucky to sell these at all. Even if you did, it's quite likely any extended use would reveal problems that left you dealing with returns, so if you do sell them I would sell 'for parts only'. I would feel very lucky to be offered £20 each for them, they may just have to be recycled though.

MinuteNoodles

Aos said:

Hi
A charity has asked me to look through some cupboards with a view to clearing out old pcs and tech and possibly raising some money on ebay. There are a number of old laptops and I am struggling to value them. They are Dell Inspirion D520 Celeron M with a range of RAM from 500Mb to 2Gb. Windows xp and office (2007 I think), about 160Gb hard drives. I guess they are about 2007 vintage. All in working order, i.e.boot up ok.

Anybody any ideas how much they might be worth or where to sell, other than ebay?
Thanks

In 2013 when I closed my business selling refurbished ex-corporate and ex-govt laptops these weren't even fetching £40 at the auctions and you were lucky to get £70/£80 for them with a Core 2 Duo CPU and 2GB RAM in it. 7 years has passed since I closed that business, I doubt you'd get £20-£30. By the time you'd sold them on Ebay it just isn't worth it. Better to contact your local college that does IT courses and see if they'd be of use to them as training material and donate them. 

Neil_Jones

Realistically modern laptops are so cheap now that anything more than about 18 months old is pretty much worthless.

You could stick them on Gumtree, see if somebody will take them off your hands, but you're not going to get a fortune for them.

"vintage" in computing terms is pretty much anything more than six months old, and even then it drops in value like a stone from new.  Anything that was unique or ground breaking at the time might be worth slightly more, but beyond that...  they make nice doorstops

J_B

There was an 'advert' on BBC Radio Stoke about 6 weeks ago appealing for old computers for recycling to give to home schooled kids. I managed to find 6 laptops, 2 iPads and 2 Android tablets by just asking around a little.

Maybe the charity could be ... erm .. charitable? 😁

Paula_Smith

I would remove the hard disks in case there is any information of value or whatever on there. They are not worth much money with or without the hard disks so it may not be worth the risk for the extra tenner or so.
Unless you know how to securely re-format hard disks with no possible come back.

jonnygee2

I would remove the hard disks in case there is any information of value or whatever on there. They are not worth much money with or without the hard disks so it may not be worth the risk for the extra tenner or so.
Unless you know how to securely re-format hard disks with no possible come back.

Very good point, you wouldn't want to risk a huge data breach of some sort for the sake of £20. Hard drives should also be destroyed and disposed of securely.

Aos

Thanks for those replies, it's what a thought might be the case. Thanks for hard disc wipe reminder.

TheRightOne

Neil_Jones said:

Realistically modern laptops are so cheap now that anything more than about 18 months old is pretty much worthless.

You could stick them on Gumtree, see if somebody will take them off your hands, but you're not going to get a fortune for them.

"vintage" in computing terms is pretty much anything more than six months old, and even then it drops in value like a stone from new.  Anything that was unique or ground breaking at the time might be worth slightly more, but beyond that...  they make nice doorstops

Quite untrue of course. I think you just made that up.

getmore4less

Our local freecycle has a couple of hobbyist that collect old kit, refurb, pass them on to good causes. 
With a good supply they build up free spare parts collection from those that are to far gone. 

For that vintage of kit I would not put any effort in unless planning to use myself.

It would be a sold as (un)seen, spare/repair or give away.