How much should I sell my laptop for when there is just one tiny problem with it, like a bent pin on the motherboard?
How much should I sell my laptop for when there is just one tiny problem with it, like a bent pin on the motherboard?
You don't have an example friend to compare your situation to, so you can't fix the distrust problem just by selling it to someone else. When you sell your laptop to a stranger, there is no guaranteed best price. Even if you knew exactly what was wrong with the machine, you still wouldn't know for sure because of all the doubts. How would a buyer know more than you do? Just like I said in my first reply, right now, this laptop (which has unknown issues) is worth $200 to $400. It might look very low to you since you bought it for $1300 and probably expected $1000 because of the one-year history and a small problem. You can ask whatever you want about your computer, but what really matters is how much people are willing to pay. Let's think from the buyer's point of view: When they see your ad with issues listed at $300, they will pay that amount for the laptop. It is very likely that buying a replacement motherboard (MoBo) might be hard or impossible. If you can get a spare MoBo, it won't be cheap though. So, replacing just one MoBo costs about $200. Adding up all the time and effort needed to find two new parts plus fixing thermal paste and pads means that extra work is around $100. In this scenario, the buyer has spent $600 in total for a working used laptop with the same specs as yours now. If you listed your computer at $1300 instead of what you expect to pay, then the buyer would have spent $1300. At that price, it makes more sense to buy a brand new one rather than wasting time and money on a broken laptop that probably doesn't come with a warranty.