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How are people claiming such high MBP resale value?
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All depends on where you live, and what condition it's in. Ebay instant sale would give you about $900 for it...
Ouch, that's low...Sometimes instant sale isn't too bad either. I quoted a macbook 2.0, 500gb, 1gb ram for 530ish i think. that would be like 600 sale on ebay.
Also: How long you're willing to wait for a seller, when you sell it, what market you decide to sell it on, whether you take good photos or not, how you decide to describe the system, supply and demand of used systems in your market...there's a lot of factors here. And all it takes is one person willing to pay the price you want (or two on an auction site).
I wish I can settle with my asking price, like you do.I've not had a single good luck in being able to find the "right" buyer since I started selling my stuff (whether it is Macs or something else).
For my previous sale, I ended up selling at the price I did because of simple (or you can call it stupid) logic. If I had already waited for 3 weeks without even finding a buyer take my deal for the listed price, what are the odds of me being able to get what I want?
Sometimes, it is really very depressing when I think about the amount of losses I made when selling my Macs, especially when everyone are saying that Macs have great resale value, which I simply don't see based on my Mac sales..
Dude seriously?
If you have a MacBook Pro in pristine - I'm talking PRISTINE - condition...regardless of whether it's a 2009 or 2010 or 2011 - and you offer it for a fair price, there will always be someone to buy it. Even if you don't get the money you'd like to get, don't lowball yourself. You have to get a backbone.
TO me, the 2010 MacBook Pro is still worth $2000. I know I won't get that much, because plenty of people say "but Apple's refurb is only" so I one-up them by setting my price just beneath Apple's refurb price. Then they have nothing to say about it. I even go so far as to guarantee that if they can show me a non-eBay price lower than mine, I will beat it. Nobody ever does.
Problem is there are sharks out there who think they're entitled. If all you do is undercut yourself then no, you'll never sell anything. And eBay's heavy handed "you're required to use PayPal" BS is just not an option like it was 10 years ago. Nor is their "if you do a local transaction we're not covering jack" BS.
Advertising is a big part of it. I take my 17" everywhere with me, it serves as my work and personal laptop, and people are initially shocked that I would do something like that, but when they see that it's easily half the thickness of my old Gateway and 4 pounds lighter, and how simply gorgeous the thing is, I get people interested. There's a guy at work right now who bought a MacBook Air from me last year - his girlfriend destroyed it (we call her Schleprock...she's on her 35th cell phone and she's in her early 20's, mind), so I told him about my 2010 17" being up for sale. At first he said the price was way out of whack, but every time he sees the screen on my 2011 and the fact that it handles everything I throw at it, he gets more and more tempted.
Your locale does play a big part. If you live in an area where everyone is basically richer than you (which I so happen to), it makes it hard to do like garage sales or something. Also there are a lot of PC diehards who are just not sold on Mac, even the hardware. But there IS someone out there who wants your machine for the price you ask for it, as long as it's fair.
I bought the system for $2800 reduced from $3200, education discount anyway it has some small scratches on the bottom but apart from that it is spotless the machine itself is 7 and a half months old. It has a apple SSD in it but as i understand it, it may be cheaper to buy a cheap 750GB HD and put that in? (I dont know). I still have the original box and packaging bar the plastic wrapping, all the discs are in the original case and i am thinking of selling it with an apple magic mouse which i no longer use. So the machine still has 5 months warranty was worth AUD $3280 (almost excatly) when bought, it has all the original packaging and discs, includes a magic mouse and has only a few minor scratches on the bottom. i dont know where i would sell it i dont really care basically what i want to do is sell it for around $1900-$2100 AUD which may be impossible but it is a $1100 of its original price, i would be selling it from Australia but would try what overseas sites i can find as if i could find a good british site that i can provide shiping for it would be great as macs are very expensive in the UK
anyway it has some small scratches on the bottom but apart from that it is spotless the machine itself is 7 and a half months old. It has a apple SSD in it but as i understand it, it may be cheaper to buy a cheap 750GB HD and put that in? (I dont know). I still have the original box and packaging bar the plastic wrapping, all the discs are in the original case and i am thinking of selling it with an apple magic mouse which i no longer use. So the machine still has 5 months warranty was worth AUD $3280 (almost excatly) when bought, it has all the original packaging and discs, includes a magic mouse and has only a few minor scratches on the bottom. i dont know where i would sell it i dont really care basically what i want to do is sell it for around $1900-$2100 AUD which may be impossible but it is a $1100 of its original price, i would be selling it from Australia but would try what overseas sites i can find as if i could find a good british site that i can provide shiping for it would be great as macs are very expensive in the UK
Oh and i definately would be including the disks that it came with ie the iLife mac osx install disk 2 and the main install disk 1
oh im so stupid i forgot to point out that the screen is the hi res glossy one and the rest of the specs are in my sig