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Sell iMac

ILowry82

ILowry82

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Hello. Where is a good place to sell a current iMac? I have the 6 core 2019 iMac 21.9. I’ve listed it on offer up and Facebook marketplace and I’ve had zero interest. Any other places I can list it?
 
Wow that's surprising, I've sold all of my Macs on FB Marketplace over the past few years and always got bites within a day. I suppose Craigslist is another service to try but I always got hit with tons of scam buyers on there. Then of course eBay but they have high fees
 
Depends.. If you just want cash... my experience with gazelle wasn't bad. I traded in my Imac to Apple/Phobio since I was getting a new Imac.
 
I’d like to get value for it so something like Gazelle isn’t an option. Yeah I’m surprised about Facebook and OfferUp. I usually sell things on there. I’ve never tried to sell an item that had zero interest. It’s a good price too
 
A few weeks ago I purchased a late 2017 with similar spec, 1TB internal non fusion for US$780. Added an external 500 GB SSD for US$80 and very happy with it.

This was in Canada bought off Kijjiji
 
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Do you live in a reasonably populated area? If so, you might try listing it on NextDoor. That is the channel I've used exclusively for selling my used iPads and iMacs, and have had excellent results and experiences.

Zero cost for the transaction. You can get cash if you want. You can deal with the buyer eyeball-to-eyeball. No need for or cost for packing and shipping.

Caveats:

Price your unit to sell
Meet buyer in neutral site
Temporary (hopefully) - Follow appropriate Covid-19 precautions.
 
I resell Macs (locally, online and eBay) and found the same disinterest in the Intel Macs myself.

Normally I sell at least 1 Mac during the week but has dropped to zero the past 3 weeks.

I attribute the downturn dut to the M1 release.

Maybe interest will return later but looking at dropping prices as resale prices are dropping I have been tracking....
 
ILowry82 said:
2019 21.5 inch, 3ghz i5 6 core, 8gb ram, 1tb fusion drive. I'm asking $1350. This retails for almost $1900 with AppleCare.
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You are asking way too much and if you read MacRumors, the advice here is to avoid buying iMacs with fusion/hdd drives. I would say that even 1TB SSD and 16GB would not justify your asking price.
 
avz said:
You are asking way too much and if you read MacRumors, the advice here is to avoid buying iMacs with fusion/hdd drives. I would say that even 1TB SSD and 16GB would not justify your asking price.
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For the current model iMac? What is a good asking price?
 
ILowry82 said:
Where is that?
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It's a forum here: https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/marketplace.132/

I do agree that is too high of an asking price.. the latest model 21.5" includes a 256 GB SSD (or can "upgrade" to the 1 TB Fusion for no change in price) and educational pricing for that is $1,399 brand new, and being that they did not update this model in 2019 like they did the 27", I would expect to get $1,000 for it (with AppleCare+)
 
Well if someone would offer me $1000 I’d take it. I haven’t even gotten that
 
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