Hi guys,
Just wondering what your experiences are with reselling laptops.
To me it's one of the trickier "expensive" items to resell (along with cars - actually, cars are even worse) because:
- There are too many variants (e.g. unlike selling a Samsung Galaxy S5, or iPhone 4S, with laptops you might have a HP Pavilion dvi-5205-tu, and a dvi-5206-tu)
- To elaborate on the point above, the same can occur if you buy China brand mobile phones (e.g. Elephones/Mstars/tHL), but they are cheaper to begin with so your "loss" is not as great
- Again, in relation to the point above, I suppose you could buy China brand laptops, but then there's the issue/concern of warranty and personally I feel warranty on a laptop is more valuable than on a mobile phone
- It doesn't retain its value well (depreciating item)
- Concern with not being able to completely wipe the data from the hard drive
- Not as cheap to deliver as mobile phones, so if you were planning to sell on eBay, your postage fees would be significantly higher compared to a mobile phone
Every time I purchase a laptop for $400+, I'm just like, this is literally $400 down the drain.. as opposed to a Galaxy S6 for $600, I know I'll still be able to sell it for $300 after 1.5 years.
I guess you could always take out the parts of a laptop to resell/reuse..
Thoughts? Ideas?
Laptops and computers are generally items that do not hold their value well unless they've got a fruit logo on it…
And most people who'd buy a second hand laptop would be wary of certain pitfalls such as the lack of a warranty, and second, a savvy customer would do a lot of research prior to buying and work out that procuring refurbished models instead from an outlet would be far better value since they sometimes are covered under a full year of warranty.
Same goes for phones actually. I'm sure once a phone has been opened and used, you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who is willing to shell out anywhere close to 80% of it's original price. Again, unless it has a fruit logo on it or is a SAMSUNG..