Selling A Computer Spare Or Repair?

Question

Would you get more on ebay selling an entire laptop spare or repair, or would you get more selling the parts separate? I.E the memory, the screen, the fan, the modem etc?? Its an Acer with all parts working 100% apart from the motherboard

Answer 1

Laptop parts are pretty much proprietary per manufacturer. The RAM and hard drive you can probably sell as parts but everything else is pretty much all or nothing. If the motherboard on a laptop is dead, then it's pretty much useless. Unlike desktops, you can't just get any off the shelf board and stuff it in a laptop shell since each manufacturer has it's own design. Anyone who wants to actually repair it would have to determine the faulty component on the board and know a bit about soldering. If it's old, it's not worth the time and effort unless you can find someone ambitious or crazy enough to take on the challenge.

Answer 2

Sell off the RAM, Hard drive, and DVD drive. Those should bring in a little money. Then sell what's left with the screen attached. There are people on Ebay dumb enough to buy a barren laptop with a dead motherboard for over $100. If you don't believe me just do a search. It really is baffling.

Answer 3

List the computer on Ebay. If it doesnt fetch what you want then list parts seperate, if that doesn't work for you then list then donate it to the church or local shelter etc. for half of what you paid for it as a deduction, then give the receipt to someone that cares for you-they can have the write off and you have helped more people than you can count.

Answer 4

Ebay is not a joke, you probably just have never done it. Anyways my advice is try it as a whole. You can also check the results of auctions that have already ended and compare them. Such as write the main parts and see how they did and compare that to a laptop like yours that was broken. Or you can do what skinny suggests and be totaly amazing.

Answer 5

Why not put it up for auction and see how it goes? Someone who knows his way around computers may but it whole with intent to fix it, where someone else who does repairs may want the parts.

Answer 6

You'd might make more money parting it out, but that could take years.

Once you sell the vital components, who's going to want what's left?

Much easier to sell the complete unit.

Answer 7

Surely you must be kidding, Ebay is a joke unless your item is unique or your willing to take pennies on the dollar.